Kevin Winter/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images On the outro, titled "Let It All Work Out," Wayne addresses his suicide attempt explicitly for the first time (though he has alluded to it in the past), with lyrics like: "I found my momma's pistol where she always hide it / I cry, put it to my head and thought about it" All in all, it seems that Wayne is ready for a new chapter with Carter V. His lyrics address everything from suicide, the perils of fame, and his reported use of lean throughout. E! News pointed out the rapper's honesty on the album. The Young Money label owner even gets a little help from President Barack Obama on the track, “Dedicate,” which, according to E! News, shares a snippet of a NAACP speech from the former POTUS explaining that “our kids can’t all aspire to be LeBron, or Lil Wayne.”Ĭarter V, Wayne's first release since 2011, is his 12th studio album and also appears to be one of his most personal. The album, which Billboard notes is the rapper's first not to be distributed under the label that birthed his decades-long career, offers fans 23 new tracks and features collaborations with other major artists including: Nicki Minaj, Kendrick Lamar, Snoop Dogg, Travis Scott, the late XXXTentacion, and Ashanti.
View the full tracklisting below.After several years of contractual disputes with his record label Cash Money Records, Lil Wayne's highly-anticipated Carter V album was released on Friday, September 28, marking a monumental moment in hip-hop history. Tha Carter V Deluxe Edition can be bought here. He also recently released the fan-favorite, critically-acclaimed No Ceilings mixtape on all digital streaming platforms. Earlier This summer, Wayne celebrated the 5th anniversary of the Free Weezy Album (FWA) byĭropping the project on all digital streaming platforms.
The highly-anticipated album’s deluxe edition follows the release of Wayne’s most recent album Funeral. Earning 480,000 equivalent album units and 433 million streams in its first week, according to Nielsen Music, Tha Carter V opened with the third-largest week for an album that year as well as the second-largest streaming week ever. Tha Carter V debuted at No.1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, marking the rap icon’s fourth No.1 album. The album was delayed for an additional four years before its arrival in 2018, seven years after the release of Tha Carter IV. It was only days before the project’s expected December release date that it was announced that Tha Carter V was shelved. Following the release of Tha Carter IV in 2011, the fifth installment was expected to arrive in 2014. Wayne’s Tha Carter series first began in 2004, with each album coming within one to three years of each other.
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