New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne has been an industry juggernaut the past couple of years, not only releasing his most critically acclaimed album “Tha Carter II”, but controlling the mixtape scene, with his “Tha Drought” and “Tha Drought is Ova” releases. Now, the dust has settled, and he’s concentrating all efforts towards his forthcoming LP “Tha Carter III”. We caught up with Willy Matlock, one of the contributing producers to TCIII, and asked him a few questions about Lil Wayne and the new album.
DS: What is it like in the studio with Lil Wayne? Who/What does he usually have there with him??
WM: I’m from Cleveland, Ohio so I usually send tracks to Wayne through E-mail. I’ve never been in the studio with him… but he usually has his Young Money Camp with him…Tezz….Mack Maine and a few others.
DS: What producers are set to appear on the album thus far?
WM: The Runners, Matlock, Young Yonny, Scott Storch….He has some hot in-house producers too, but that’s all I’ve heard so far.
DS: According to reports, tracks from Tha Carter 3 have been leaked. How do you think the tracks were leaked? How does Wayne feel about this?
WM: Right now no one knows how….this happened to me on Tha Carter 2…I did a track called “U Nasty” and along with 8 other tracks, and they were leaked….Lil Wayne his camp, myself and the producers who have lost out on future money…are highly upset about it.
DS: Is Wayne going back into the booth to record more songs? If so, will Tha Carter III be pushed back?
WM: Lil Wayne never stops recordin. He does song after song after song. Tha Carter 3 may or may not be pushed back because he has so many songs. Dependin on how the streets take to the leaked material will probably dictate the direction he chooses to go.
DS: Many think his rhymes have been deteriorating since Gillie left Cash Money, any thoughts on that?
WM: Lil Wayne is only gettin better….and even if he was gettin his style from him…where is Gillie The Kid right now…Lil Wayne is still selling records…because of him I am a platinum producer.
DS: Whats with all these mixtapes he’s been dropping and no album, have you produced any tracks on those mixtapes?
WM: Lil Wayne records so much…he keeps his name current with mixtapes and features. He doesn’t put all these mixtapes out. All a DJ needs is a couple drops from him then they grab 20 songs from the internet or wherever than can get and put out a mixtape and says he is hostin. You can tell the real ones.
DS: The Song “Dying” led the public to believe he might be on some kind of substance. Any truth to that?
WM: I don’t know if he is on any substance…maybe there is a hidden message….
DS: What percent of Tha Carter 3 was completed before the songs leaked?
DS: What do you think of the Weezy fanbase, and their unrelenting devotion to him?
WM: As far as his fanbase…its only gonna get bigger…he’s unpredictable and says things off the wall….he features on other artists singles that do real well…so those fans also becomes his fans…as long as he makes good music he will be here for a long time.
COMMENTS
1st...Real Shit
Do you know if there is a way to get a good copy of the leak the mixtape? its pretty good.
504
I LOVE LIL WAYNE please give me your number man i miss you my friend i live in sweden now can u come there ?
damn nigga of course u 1st its about 12:00 am right now. anyways i cant wait fo that carter3.
Danm
weezy sit down and take ur time writing some new songs. cuz i want c3 to be like c2 n c1
thats what im sayin
What a shitty interview. I don't know Wayne, i just sit at my computer and email him mp3 files.
L to the O L Airkat. ^^
the carter 1 and the dedication 1 were his best and rawest material ever released, i can still listen from start to finish on both, except for the skits lol. and i aint no weezy stan, you cant deny that he makes hot tracks, but aint nobody touchin big L on the lyrical tip. i dont know if i will buy this because i stop payin attention to him after juelz corrupted his head and turned him into a dipset byrdgangist. all this leather so soft, and rockstar shit is gettin on my nerves. i didnt feel like buyin like father like son for three dollas from this fiend at the gas station. if he takes it back to the carter one without all the flash and flair i will buy it tho.
weezy is wack getting worsw by the min
nigga u iz wack wayne gettin hotter by da miniutehell shit on ur favorite rapper
Hatin ass... he gettin better... Get it right
weezy's been Garbage ever since he dropped the Drought 3, which is not even a REAL Mixtape, just him missusing other peoples shit! Keep your butthole tight u little shit
weezy is the bes rappa alive, YUP
^^YOU STUPID!!!!!
if u base your opinion on talent alone dude the best out
^^^^^no boy yo ass stupid wayne ass is the best rapper
and if u dont like it nigga fuck ya wit a aids dick
why is everyone so concerned with who everyone else thinks is the best. If niggas think wayne the best then let it be why you so mad.
Smartest Thing I've ever seen on this site I try to tell everyone that man Thats Pretty Good Your Cool
The Music Industry Is an Opinion Based World its shows how empty minded people are to get mad so easy just because someone doesnt agree with them
go getta
personally weezy comes of hot in some songs, but his style that was tight a few months ago is getting tired, lets be real
yo (no hatin) as of now...Wayne aint just that much of a great rapper to me!
I give him legendary potential but NO BEST!
besides (Gillie did help him with Carter 1 and that aint a legend art for needing a ghostwriter when u started this game in what...1995!)
So i give him 1 true classic...Carter II...cuz it aint been proven he didnt need help with that album. People must understand that this dude (aint even a STREET rapper...4 real anyways!)
But music is music and he get his props. oh yeah The Drought 3 was kind of lame to me! He sayin "Willie Da Squid"! is that all he can say on Gillie. DO A SONG...especially when YOU STARTED THAT GILLIE VS YOU beef! ya dig!
Carter III will show if he can make his claim as CLOSE cuz he aint BEST AT ALL!
He got to make many more classic beside 1...lets stop dickridin so much people!
real talk...1
WAYNE IS LEGENDARY FOR SUCKING BABYS DICK AND SAYING BLING BLING
eyo halla at me when u need seen
YOUalegndary for sucking mine and saying nut on me
imma bout 2 fire ur ass up nigga u famouse 4 suckin off errbody bitch nigga dats wat u legendary 4 get at me nigga
CEITEDMOFO — 19 minutes ago
WAYNE IS LEGENDARY FOR SUCKING BABYS DICK AND SAYING BLING BLING
^^^^Dude look like the biggest crack fiend I ever seen
CHANGE THAT FUCKIN AVATAR NIGGA
Huggie sometime you be on yo shit I totaly agree the Carter 2 Clasic,And maybe in time a legend but best will always be pac dead or alive He makes good music but the fact still remains he has homo tendicies
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO @ DAT AVATAR
fuck you
damn,,,i kinna feel bad,,,i might make more money off da carter III den weezy,,,almost everyone in da skool has kopped the album
Look u haters.. get off weezy dick and give props cuz the man is the best.....
Show uright
^^ best @? rapping i dun think so..kissin men mabye
Weezy F. Baby please say tha baby Fuck tha nigga's Fuck tha bitches Fuck tha one's who hate'em
lol...stop stanin wayne..hes not the best...
Juice305 — 36 minutes ago
Look u haters.. get off weezy dick and give props cuz the man is the best.....
JUICE u win a ticket to fly to see Weezy and get a kiss from him and the birdman for being the first to defend the faggot! lol
I know Ima get death threats for days, but I aint even like The Carter II that much cept for a few songs. Tha Block Is Hot was better as an album.
I hear that, Waynes mixtape shit is his best material so far, I guess the CS was classic but you gotta love the verses he spittin out now more than ne thang. But the block is hott is just annoying cuz his voice is so high pitched and shit.
Naw dude Carter II was much better than that garbage azz Lil Bow Wow rappin azz album lol
Boy i tell u if u guys was to make money off hating (Wayne)u all would be rich.
but all yall dumbass mufukaz payin a mufuka dat dont give a fukk how he sound and da style yall liked he got frum sum1 else and still is gettin his shyt frum sumbudy else shyt get around one of my mans listen to dat fool wayne wrote 4 dat man and got paid but i cant put my man out derr but. i dont even like wayne but ill write 4 him and collect yall money cuz yall dumbass makin him rich. but wen i cum out i want yall to know cuz wayne got my style n him. but i got diffrent styles i change up wayne can have dat 1. and all da traxx i lost n my pc. im mad i cudnt add my shyt on dat page i got now. its so sad but check sum my shyt out. www.myspace.com/youngcasperbkacasperg www.soundclick.com/shycty www.soundclick.com/youngcasperdaghost Im Cumin Soon!!! Im FInna Flip Da Whole Game
Weezy is tight yo, definitely one of the best, but he aint the greatest rapper alive.
The Carter was his best album. The 2nd one fell off but still was hot. Weezy is the man!
JfnEZZ — about 10 hours ago
damn nigga of course u 1st its about 12:00 am right now. anyways i cant wait fo that carter3.
O u mad cause Im stylin on u LOL!!!..pussy
listen you retarded fucks who think he the best this nigga is decent at the best. yall ever heard that weak shit called dyin,diamonds and girls,or did it before that shit was trash. the carter 2 was ass it was about 5 tracks on there worth listening to after that it was straight trash. tha drought 3 was huff. this nigga said you niggas pussy like dried sperm. wtf. im lookin for a bitch wit a husband. he rapped to dead presidents a song that he has no business goin on. you niggas have no real fact that he is the best rapper alive you just say he puts out song after song and nobody else does that so he cold. 80% of the shit he puts out is straight ass so before you niggas say some dumb shit like that read a book or some shit
wtf u talkin bout bitch nigga tha carter 2 waz fire da drought 3 waz fire nigga u dont kno wtf u talkin bout so think about wat da fuck u post on da fuckin joint nigga
infinite — 8 minutes ago
listen you retarded fucks who think he the best this nigga is decent at the best. yall ever heard that weak shit called dyin,diamonds and girls,or did it before that shit was trash. the carter 2 was ass it was about 5 tracks on there worth listening to after that it was straight trash. tha drought 3 was huff. this nigga said you niggas pussy like dried sperm. wtf. im lookin for a bitch wit a husband. he rapped to dead presidents a song that he has no business goin on. you niggas have no real fact that he is the best rapper alive you just say he puts out song after song and nobody else does that so he cold. 80% of the shit he puts out is straight ass so before you niggas say some dumb shit like that read a book or some shit
TRUE! then took a classic DP beat from jay and made it wack! Pussy like dried sperm...and people call that THE BEST? im tellin ITS THAT VOODOO ON HIM TO HAVE FANS! I didnt believe in that shyt but i think its real. Wayne puttin Voodoo in his music.
Even def bytches say hi to me, and she tell a blind girl and she say i gotta see...(WHATS THE ACTUAL MEANING IN THAT METAPHOR??) lol
I FOUND OUT THE SECRET MESSAGE IN DYING BY LIL WAYNE IT TOOK ME A WHILE BUT I GOT IT Ok if you listen closely he talks about drugs alot in that song. the hook is talking about dying when the drugs are gone. BUT what people fail to relize when he talks about the drugs he is talking about him self being the dug. lil wayne says '' Roll me up and smoke me'' that means he is the drug and when he is finshed rapping everyone or he will feel like dying cause once your hooked u cant quit and he is talking bout everyone is hook on his rhymes!!!!!! if you have questions ask!!!!
THATS WAT I CAM UP WIT
WAYNE IS HOT. LYRICALLY HE MIGHT BE THE BEST OUT. BUT I STILL GOT JEEZY OVER HIM IN THE SOUTH
djdigga1991 — 16 minutes ago
I FOUND OUT THE SECRET MESSAGE IN DYING BY LIL WAYNE IT TOOK ME A WHILE BUT I GOT IT Ok if you listen closely he talks about drugs alot in that song. the hook is talking about dying when the drugs are gone. BUT what people fail to relize when he talks about the drugs he is talking about him self being the dug. lil wayne says '' Roll me up and smoke me'' that means he is the drug and when he is finshed rapping everyone or he will feel like dying cause once your hooked u cant quit and he is talking bout everyone is hook on his rhymes!!!!!! if you have questions ask!!!!
THATS WAT I CAM UP WIT
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Man yall need to shut the fuck up...Yall motherfuckas doing too much over anyalyzing. Weezy is one of the best rappers out right now. If he's not then who is?? All a nigga hear is "He's this, He's that" then who the hell is?? And please don't name one of those fuck niggas from up north! All I see is a bunch of pussy ass haters that think they know the whole fucking game of hip hop. I wanna hear what the fuck yall talk bout on a track. Can't be bout shit.
Thats Single Handedly the dumbest thing i've ever heard why would you get so mad over someones opinion your a weak minded person
- King
yu right handz down weezy is the coldest. and niggaz dont repect him why?cuz he taking all they fav rappers fav rappers fan base.
flow=10(best flow of all time)
delivery=10
stlye=10(might be borrowed, but whose isnt)
lyrics=8(sometimes he say dumb shit)
lyical content=7(he try to deversify sometimes not enough)
you niggas say he was ass before the carter, but did yall really listen to to block is hot, Lights out was classic believe or not. I aint fuck with 500 degrees for real.
Dude was the best to me before he started sayin he was the best.
Listen to the squad mixtapes all 8 of them. All of that shit came out before the carter and before gillie was fuckin with cash money.
The nigga never wrote for wayne he was a tutor. The nigga be lying he change his story all the time.
wayne is fire, u right do sometimes he says some dumb shit but you gon loose some things to rap about when u put out a fuckin song everyday, i hope he makes some new songs on TCIII I like the ones that leaked but I always like to hear new shit, and man ya'll gotta stop hatin on lil wayne
it be the same niggas in on every topic that claim that dude suck and all this other dumb shit. If he suck so bad dont listen, dont click an article that he featured in
I really think they fans.
Jay-Z is alright, the only reason why he has alot of rank is because of the battle between him and Nas. U know it is said that he does not write anything down when he puts an album out or when he raps period. With that in mind why is it difficlut for him to rap in Rap City using new lyrics from the top of his head? check this out right before his album came out here is Jay-Z the guy who does NOT WRITE JUST SPIT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhER4nm7dBg
Here's another one at 106, R u fuckin kidding me now u cant tell me that wasn't wack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDA5kzHrWDU
Free enjoyed more then the fans and i sure she did't understand a word he said she likes it becuase it Jay-Z, buts lets be forreal!!!!!!!!!!!
Juice305 — 4 minutes ago
Jay-Z is alright, the only reason why he has alot of rank is because of the battle between him and Nas. U know it is said that he does not write anything down when he puts an album out or when he raps period. With that in mind why is it difficlut for him to rap in Rap City using new lyrics from the top of his head? check this out right before his album came out here is Jay-Z the guy who does NOT WRITE JUST SPIT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhER4nm7dBg
Here's another one at 106, R u fuckin kidding me now u cant tell me that wasn't wack http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDA5kzHrWDU
Free enjoyed more then the fans and i sure she did't understand a word he said she likes it becuase it Jay-Z, buts lets be forreal!!!!!!!!!!!
dude he made the attention come to Nas when that battle happen...4 real...NO ONE WAS THINKING of Stillmatic until Jay dissed him. That was a good look for Nas!
with that being said...the rap city freestyle was never said NOT even on mixtapes BUt the beginning was the "Public Service Announcement" intro verse. BUT wayne has NEVER EVER FREESTYLED! cuz he has never done it! Wayne is a Jay-Z wanna be. Nobody peeps from time to time he using that Godfather flow or even taking Jay lines. Yeah Nyggaz take Pac and Big lines BUT HOW MANY OF JAY LINES BEEN TOOK WHILE HES ALIVE?????
None
u lyin bitch jay-z made half da niggahz n hip hop if any niggah say jay-z not dey idol or a icon legend or dont give jay his props den dey dumb cuz jay da best and wayne got scatred when jay came back but jay came back 4 a reason. weezy was sayin im da best alive since da best retired now he dont like jay he got me fucked up. he thynk dipset can help him dey tryna gang band dey ass a get killed in da streetz. jay can get dem nigggahz shot even jeezy can get niggahz shot cuz i no niggahz dat fukked up Gucci mane when jeezy said dat.
Needless to say it's a shame people had to steal his tracks and leak them, I guess that's just how it is when you tha hottest out, and it's a shame this dumb interviewer had tha nerve to ask them about Wayne putting out all these mixtapes, but I guess some people are so simple minded that they forget it's DJ's doing tha mixtape game and not Wayne actually sitting up putting tha same tracks on cds and giving them different covers...LoL But yea just like with tha Carter 2, Wayne will go and find more fire for tha Carter 3 because like dude said they had 8 tracks laced and didn't even put them on tha album, but Wayne good enough to come up with more. To me he following in tha footsteps of Tupac because Tupac did tha same thing when it came to making music, recording, and writing everyday. So when Tupac died he had dumb people thinking he was still alive because new music kept coming out, and tha same thing will happen with Wayne, because when he die they'll have enough material to drop about 9 to 10 new mixtapes or albums with different songs because he got so much on his mind and all he do is spit, so it is what it is, tha more tracks they leak, tha better he'll be because he gotta dig deeper to please all tha haters that complain about stolen tracks they've already heard; and lets just drop tha issue about tha track "Dying" because I've realized if you ain't never had a English class, heard of Shakespeare, Longfellow, Dickinson, Langston Hughes, or at least got an "A" or a "B" in that class you won't even begin to understand tha schemes and foreshadowing and purity to poetry. And no they didn't write about drugs like Wayne did so I don't need tha "smart a**" comments but if tha people who keep jumping out they face had any understanding of what I'm talking about they would just give him his props at being different and that would be tha end of it. All of this wtf, and that song don't make sense, and was he rapping stuff is like torture to read because it makes me realize how ignorant a lot of people are...LoL And no I don't know everything but damn at least I remember being taught by my moms to keep my mouth shut if I don't know what I'm talking about...
Like dude said earlier about tha Sqad Up mixtapes, if you really want a reference of how Wayne can blaze a whole summer with track after track then just go and cop all of those or listen to tha "Prefix "and "Suffix" mixtapes...
hey don't start that whole jay don't really freestyle shit cause i promise you it's a video on you tube where wayne spit a the whole second verse off this song from the carter 1 no hate to wayne just letting yall know wayne be spitting songs too when they ask him to freestyle in interviews that's one problem i have with the two carters (jay and wayne) they be doing that shit and it erk the hell out me but it's cool cause when they really do freestyle the murder it eps jay i been to dat piff.com and jay got a whole bunch of crazy freestyles that made me mad cause i never heard em i been missing out big time and yall have too but anyway i wish the best for weezy and i want a better album than kc from jay ..
MAN REAL RAP MD IS A FUCKIN HATER MAN!!!
JEEZY.... JEEZY DOG ...JEEZY
JEEZY ALRIGHT ....
DOG THE CARTER 3 GON BE THE BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR....
MARK THESE WORDS NIGGA!!!!
BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR- THE CARTER 3
IF THIS IS THE LEAKED SHIT THEN YOU ALREADY KNOW THE SHIT THEY KEPT A COVER ON IS GON GO 3X HARDER..... AND ALL YOU NIGGAS HATIN ON THE SOUTH, LIL WAYNE ETC.
DO ME A FAVOR.....KILL YOSELF...... THIS IS THE MOST CREATIVE APPROACH TO AN ALBUM I'VE SEEN IN A WHILE ...HE GOT ALL ANGLES COVERED. ...
BITCHS(PROSTITUTE FLANGE)
SMOKERS(HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW)(LALA LA)
X HEADS(I FEEL LIKE DYING)
DEEP SHIT (WORLD OF FANTASY)
RIDERS (SCARFACE)
HONESTLY OFF THE LEAKED SHIT I HEARD 5 OR 6 POSSIBLE SINGLES AND I DON'T LIKE RADIO SHIT BUT I KNOW THIS BITCH GON BE A INSTANT CLASSIC..... IT'S GOT IT ALL MAN GIVE IT UP TO THIS NIGGA HE KILLIN IT!!!!!!
(no homo)
your white nuff said
got the suffix, prefix, six of the squad tapes the very first two droughts, all that shit was fy.
Dyin was fy as hell niggas just to simple to get it.
It be them niggas from up north who think down south niggas too dumb to make some intellectual shit.
I promise yall niggas worse then them white folks down here.
Our shit be simple sometimes, but it be by choice niggas.
we simple folk down here
Hip-Hop started in New York and it will die in New York. South got some swagger but it aint the Greatness of New York style and intellectualism
yo lil wayne is a talented rapper with mad skills n he got dat from being in the game for so long. although i feel when ppl say he comes up wit korny lines but he also be coming out wit incredible ass lines as well. for instince "im probably in the sky flying wit da fishes or maybe in the ocean swimming wit da pigeons see my world is different like dwayne wade" lol dat shit is fire n he reps dat 305 miyayo dats anotha reason y hes fire yaaaa digggg!!!!
fuck lil wayne he sucks and he knows it
he think he jigga
Real Talk, I hope C3 turns to be like C1 and Dedication 1 & 2. Those CD's went so hard. But with all this shit on Wayne....... Im a die hard fan, but Damn Wayne get yo shit 2getha nigga.
I DOUBT if the Carter 3 will be better than Red Gone Wild! Without Gilly's help, I doubt if it will be better than Voice of the Young People, which I MIGHT purchase on the strength that I wanna support the East and the South (as a WHOLE, not all) is Ayass... cheeks...
C3 gon be better than its predacessors just like c2 was better than c1. c1 had better songs, but lyrically c2 smashed c1.
^^^you still mentioning gillie dude is so irrelevant at this point in time, please kill that nonsense.
You just helping spread rumors.
alot of niggas be politicing against wayne on this site yall the niggas who created these stans. All the hate has turned the some of the fans into stans.
Lil Wayne sucks ass, who gives a shti?
nigga ur mova sucks ass and i give a shit bitch nigga
the king — about 17 hours ago
weezy is the bes rappa alive, YUP
Juice305 — about 9 hours ago
Look u haters.. get off weezy dick and give props cuz the man is the best
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Wtf man i mean kids get foreal, enough fantasy...