Cash Money's future was no longer in doubt and traditional music business rules no longer seemed to apply, as tracks were leaked onto the Internet and various DJs' mixtapes.
With his alternative marketing scheme working in overdrive, the landing of Tha Carter II was a major event, selling over a quarter-million copies the week of its release. Bush," a venomous response to President George W. Bush 's handling of the Katrina disaster. Tha Carter III was promised for but didn't arrive until a year later, setting off Wayne 's reputation for delayed releases.
Part of the problem was the unauthorized leaks of the album's tracks, something combatted by the official downloadable EP The Leak , released that same year. Preceded by the number one hit "Lollipop," Tha Carter III arrived in May , selling more than a million copies in its first week of release. He also performed at that year's Country Music Awards with Kid Rock , but rather than rap, he played guitar.
The guitar playing was part of Wayne 's new involvement with rock music, including his help in signing Kevin Rudolf to Cash Money plus an appearance on Rudolf 's massive hit "Let It Rock. His rock album, Rebirth , finally appeared in early , and coincided with Wayne being sentenced to a nine-month prison term for criminal possession of a weapon. In , unfazed by criticism that a controversial verse he contributed to Future 's "Karate Chop" -- he made a reference to Emmett Till, a black teenager gruesomely murdered in by white men -- was in poor taste, Wayne released a second volume of I Am Not a Human Being.
The album debuted at number two and featured the singles "No Worries" and "Love Me. Another track -- "Nothing But Trouble" featuring Charlie Puth -- was released in as a contribution to the soundtrack for The Movie. That same year -- to make up for fan disappointment over Tha Carter V's delays -- Wayne self-released Sorry 4 the Wait 2. These continued delays prompted the release of Free Weezy Album, yet another mixtape to tide over his fans.
By the end of the year, he published a memoir about his time spent at Riker's Island Gone 'Til November and scored another hit with "Sucker for Pain," a collaboration for the chart-topping Suicide Squad soundtrack. DJ Khaled 's "I'm the One" became one of Wayne 's biggest collaborations the following year, topping the pop chart on its way to quintuple-platinum status.
Primarily collaborative work continued well into , including a contribution to the Future -driven soundtrack for Superfly , until Wayne finally issued the oft-grim Tha Carter V, the chart-topping finale to the Carter series. The project had seen an exclusive release on only one streaming service five years earlier, but the wider release was markedly different, with some tracks omitted completely and new mixes of songs that formerly included uncleared samples.
The project included only one featured guest spot from YG. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. The record has since been passed by other artists. Lil Wayne's twelfth studio album, Tha Carter V , has been delayed multiple times and has no scheduled release date. Lil Wayne has sold over million records worldwide, including more than 15 million albums and 37 million digital tracks in the United States, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.
His mother, a cook, gave birth to him when she was 19 years old. His parents divorced when he was 2, and his father permanently abandoned the family. Although Wayne and Birdman have a father-son relationship and Birdman calls Carter his son, Wayne's biological father and namesake Dwayne Carter is still alive.
Lil Wayne has also spoken about his deceased stepfather, Reginald "Rabbit" McDonald, who he has said he considers his real father. Carter has a tattoo dedicated to Rabbit, who was murdered before Carter became a star. Wayne attended McMain in the early s for two years. Carter explained, "I dropped the D because I'm a junior and my father is living and he's not in my life and he's never been in my life. So I don't want to be Dwayne, I'd rather be Wayne". Couric asked Wayne if his father knew of this and Wayne replied with a smile, "He knows now.
He wrote his first rap song at age eight. Carter recorded freestyle raps on Williams's answering machine, leading him to mentor the young Carter and include him in Cash Money-distributed songs. He also recorded his first ever collaboration album True Story with rapper B. At the time, Carter was 11, and B. When he was 12, he played the part of the Tin Man in his middle school drama club's production of The Wiz. At age 12, he deliberately shot himself with a 9 mm handgun, and off-duty police officer Robert Hoobler drove him to the hospital.
At McMain Magnet School, Carter was an honors student, but he dropped out at the age of 14 to focus on a musical career. At age 15, Carter was the youngest member at the time. Let 'Em Burn , a compilation album of unreleased tracks recorded during and , came out in , several years after the group disbanded.
It reached No. After the rapper finally extracted himself from his Cash Money contract in June , the long-awaited Tha Carter V debuted at the Billboard top spot in September. Known to be fond of smoking marijuana, Lil Wayne has found himself in trouble with the law on several occasions. He was arrested in Georgia for drug possession in , and again in Arizona on drug-related charges in January Another drug-related arrest, in New York City in , led to criminal charges for possession of a weapon, and Wayne spent eight months behind bars at the city's notorious Rikers Island complex in After making a deal with PepsiCo to promote its Moutain Dew soda brand, Lil Wayne was dropped by the company in May after releasing a song containing derogatory lyrics referencing civil rights icon Emmett Till.
Carter was arrested in December for transporting a loaded handgun on his private jet. He pled guilty a year later and in January , President Donald Trump pardoned the rapper. The rapper established a charitable organization to help urban youth, the One Family Foundation, through which he worked to rebuild the athletic fields at his old school, Eleanor McMain Secondary School, after they were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in Wayne was previously married to a high school girlfriend, with whom he has a daughter.
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