Lil Wayne is gearing up to drop the 5th installment of Tha Carter sometime this year, but it appears that maybe the album will be dropping with little to no notice. Perhaps the Young Money rapper will be taking the Beyonce route? Check out what the Senior VP of Promotions at Cash Money Records had to say about it below.
Mel on the potential release strategy for Tha Carter V:
“We’re very close to dropping the album. It’s going to be a huge surprise to everyone, it’s an incredible album … I can’t release the date because he wants to surprise people, he wants his true fan base to get excited but he’s worked extremely hard on it and you won’t be disappointed.”
Mel also spoke on Tha Carter V being the signature sound we’ve come to expect from the series, and how it differs from the less successful I Am Not A Human Being projects:
“He’s one of the artists like Prince who just continues to record,” he said. “He does it for the love of the art, for the record, he continues to work hard to top himself, like when he does the ‘I Am Not A Human Being’ records that he’s, which are a little more rock and roll tangent, a little more pop tangent while “Tha Carter V” is a little more Lil Wayne getting it to you straight from New Orleans. That’s the thing about Wayne, when we put out the last “Carter,” we put it out and sold almost 1,000,000 records in one week. The day we put it out, he was still in the studio recording, everybody who’s heard it feels the same way, the general excitement of something big coming,” he said. “You’re just generally excited for when the world hears it.”