New York, NY -- Lil' Wayne will release his highly-anticipated "Carter III" on June 10. Below is a tracklisting:
01. 3 Peat (Produced By Masetro)
02. Mr. Carter (Featuring Jay-Z) (Produced By Infamous)
03. A Milli (Produced By Bangladesh)
04. Got Money (Featuring T-Pain) (Produced By Play-n-skillz)
05. Comfortable (Featuring Babyface) (Produced By Kanye West)
06. Dr. Carter (Produced By Swizz Beatz)
07. Phone Home (Produced By Cool & Dre)
08. Tie My Hands (Featuring Robin Thicke) (Produced By Kanye West)
09. Mrs. Officer (Featuring Bobby Valentino) (Produced By Wyclef Jean)
10. Let The Beat Build (Produced By Kanye West & Deezle)
11. Shoot Me Down (Produced By Kanye West)
12. Lollipop (Featuring Static Major) (Produced By Jim Jonsin & Deezle)
13. La La (Featuring Brisco & Busta Rhymes) (Produced By David Banner)
14. Playin’ With Fire (Produced By Streetrunner)
15. Nothin’ On Me (Featuring Juelz Santana & Fabolous) (Produced By Alchemist)
16. Don't Get It (Produced by Street Customs Mang.)
Updated: June 5, 2008 (Note: DJBooth.net would like to apologize for originally posting an incorrect track listing.)
Haha that's the craziest lookin baby I've ever seen. It actually kinda looks like weezy tho lol. I can't wait to hear Mr. Carter and Eat You Alive. Damn, just a few more weeks.
Tone+Chef: I know what you mean but Tha Carter II was also 22 tracks. Plus, it makes sense that he would have hella tracks considering he spends so much damn time in the studio. I'm expecting quality and quantity.
Weezy's going through a tough time. First, he got sued for sampling a girl on "I Feel Like Dying", then he announced his hate on mixtape DJs. THEN, someone posted pictures of a leaked copy of this album on the internet. Dang, just when things were looking to be his way in this music industry, things are starting to collapse.
i have been waitin for this album for two years... lil wayne has probably been the one constant in my life during that time.. its kinda crazy that i have been waitin for this @*#$! and its a week and a half away.. remember when the drought 3 came out?? i was so hyped i was like omg.. this is THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE.. then the carter 3 leaked @*#$!.. man.. its so crazy like a chapter of my life is ending... i gotta believe that this is gonna be the classic album we all want it to be.. and i love the art its been my phone background for a couple weeks =D
4 Kanye West produced tracks?! WOW! The producers list is amazing (I just heard Dr. Carter by SwizzBeatz, and it’s GREAT), I’m positive about this being a classic album. The FEATURINGS are NOT THAT MUCH as y’all sayin: 9 tracks in a total of 21, and 4 of them are just SINGERS, for me that doesn’t make the song less his, I mean, would you prefer to hear Weezy on the voicebox instead of Robin Thicke?! http://www.djbooth.net/images/smileys/wink.gif It’s all good 4 me! Thanx for the news DJ LP!
Muzzieboi i just listened to those snippets. The only 3 songs that sound good based on these 8 second snippets are Mrs. Officer, Dr. Carter, and Nothin On Me. Damn, I'm anxious to hear the tracks in their entirety to make a more accurate opinion
5 out of 9 featurings are JUST SINGERS (Robin, Bobby, BabyFace, T-Pain, Static Major), actually. And maybe they are less featurings (8, minus the Ludacris collabo), according to Wikipedia’s track listing, which would make ONLY 3 SONGS feature other rappers, in 16 TOTAL tracks! I believe the track list above is all messed up.
The whole album leaked after Weezy mouthed off mixtape DJs. LOL. Anyways, I gave it a listen, and in the end, there's a few comments I will make. "Mr. Carter" is the best track on the album, hands down. That track is great. There are only 16 tracks in the leak. OVERALL ALBUM... not a classic, but that's just me. I'd give it maybe 3.5-4, but maybe I need to give it more attention? I'll do that tonight. But there's something I wanna get out, is it just me, or does Lil Wayne sound like the Joker in "Misunderstood"? Scary. Also, "Good Girl Gone Bad" isn't on the album. First version that leaked was for Devin The Dude, then there was the old Apologize remix with Bun B. Unless Wayne's still got that one track? Haha.
MusicMan, do you really think music is being destroyed by bootlegging and not by THE PEOPLE? I mean almost every album I bought in the past 4 years or so (…Curtain Call, Doctors advocate, Kingdom Come, Graduation, The Cool, etc…), I heard them in their entirety before buying them, whether it’s because you can listen to clips of the music in the shops, borrow it from a friend or cuz they were available online. I don’t hear only rap music, and I noticed it’s mostly with the hip hop genre that this fact occurs: people hardly buy music just for the sake of supporting the artists they love once they’ve got it another way (I bought albums that were bootlegged, so I heard them before, by rock artists such as Linkin Park’s Collision Course, Red Hot Chili Peppers’s Stadium Arcadium, Staind’s Chapter V, etc).
Rock artists go easily multi platinum (Nickelback’s All the right reasons got bootlegged but they still went 7x platinum), so the issue is not the bootleg itself and rather HOW PEOPLE REACT towards it.
My points are:
- it’s only fair that you know what you’re going to buy before doing it (and that’s the only reason why I download; besides I’m not stoic like you not to wanna hear NOW something I been waitin for years that’s right in front of me!)
- if you are a real fan, you’ll buy the album regardless the fact that you heard it before (I mean, why do you think I bought Curtain Call by Eminem then?! It’s a compilation...)
- there will always be bootlegging, so you do more to help the artists by promoting their CD (I don’t mean bootleg, but urge people to actually buy the albums, like I did, and will buy) rather than whining about idiots destroying music
Go ahead and call me an idiot, but don’t accuse me of destroying music, it’s a way bigger issue.
FredRico: Give me a break. It's simple economics. Look at the numbers. Bootlegging (and you are right, PEOPLE bootlegging), is destroying the music industry. See I give you props for buying an album regardless if you've heard it via bootleg. I am the same way. But the fact is most of the general public are just a bunch of idiots who just love free @*#$! regardless of the consequences of their actions. I love music (as I'm sure you and everyone on DJ Booth does) and therefore I want to see the music industry thrive.
I couldn’t agree more with your statements MusicMan, I want to see the music industry thriving too. I wasn’t saying bootleg doesn’t harm the industry, it’s simple economics like you said. But there’s also the psychological explanation (that bunch of idiots you mention) before the economics happen. If the amount of idiots wasn’t so high, the bootleg wouldn’t harm as much and would more likely serve as a marketing trick (Free samples): let people know what’s good, so they can buy!