Tha Carter III

Tha Carter III
Studio album by Lil Wayne
Released June 10, 2008
Recorded November 2006–March 2008
Genre Hip hop
Length 76:31
Label Cash Money, Universal Motown
Producer Birdman (exec.), Ronald "Slim" Williams (co-exec.), The Alchemist, Bangladesh, Cool & Dre, Andrews "Drew" Correa, David Banner, Deezle, D. Smith, Infamous, Jim Jonsin, Kanye West, Maestro, Mousa, Play-n-Skillz, Robin Thicke, Rodnae, Swizz Beatz, StreetRunner
Lil Wayne chronology
Tha Carter II
(2005)		 Tha Carter III
(2008)		 Rebirth
(2010)
Singles from Tha Carter III
  1. "Lollipop"
    Released: March 13, 2008
  2. "A Milli"
    Released: April 23, 2008
  3. "Got Money"
    Released: May 27, 2008
  4. "Mrs. Officer"
    Released: September 11, 2008

Tha Carter III is the sixth studio album by American rapper Lil Wayne, released June 10, 2008 on Cash Money Records. It follows his period of mixtape releases and guest appearances on other hip hop and R&B artists, which helped increase mainstream notice of him.[1] The album's cover art features a baby picture of Wayne and is similar to covers of hip hop albums such as Illmatic (1994) and Ready to Die (1994).[2] Amid release delays and leaks,[1] Tha Carter III became one of the most anticipated releases of 2008.[3][4][5]

The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 1,005,545 copies in its first week. It reached sales of 2.88 million copies by the end of 2008 and produced four singles that achieved chart success, including the international hit "Lollipop" and Billboard hits "A Milli", "Got Money", and "Mrs. Officer". Upon its release, Tha Carter III received general acclaim from most music critics and earned Lil Wayne several accolades, including a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 51st Grammy Awards. It has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA and has sold over 3.5 million copies in the United States.

Contents

Recording

Lil Wayne stated that producers will include The Alchemist, Cool & Dre, Deezle, Jim Jonsin, Just Blaze, Kanye West, Mannie Fresh, The Runners, Timbaland, Danja, Arash, and will.i.am.[6][7][8] In an interview with HipHopCanada.com, Solitair of the Black Jays stated that he and Cipha Sounds produced a track called "Outstanding", which later eventually leaked.[9] The Runners have stated that they have produced three tracks for Tha Carter III.[10] Lil Wayne revealed that he has a track for Eminem, which he has yet to send to him.[11] He described this song as the "craziest".[11] However, it is thought that Eminem turned down the request.[12]

Collaborators include Fabolous,[13] T-Pain, Brisco, Bobby Valentino, Betty Wright, Static Major, Robin Thicke, Kidd Kidd, Jay-Z,[14] Juelz Santana,[15] and Busta Rhymes.[16] MTV reported that Wyclef Jean worked on a couple of tracks for the album and that a song featuring Justin Timberlake, Nelly Furtado, and Timbaland is likely to appear on the album.[11][17] However, that Timbaland produced track did not make the final cut. David Banner confirmed that he will be credited for five tracks on the final cut of Tha Carter III, but only one is featured on the album.[18] After the copyright controversy of "Playing with Fire", the track was later removed, replaced with another David Banner produced-track "Pussy Monster". Swizz Beatz had stated he is also working on the album.[19] When asked about how many tracks Kanye West has contributed, he answered: "On the first visit he had 5 joints. On the second visit he gave me a CD with 15 joints on it. I then told him to slow down and he left me alone. But we got a good three on the album." He confirmed that he had a few tracks on The Leak that are produced by Kanye West.[20]

Music

Tha Carter III's lead single, "Lollipop", peaked at #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 - staying #1 for 3 weeks. It was Wayne's most successful solo single in his career, winning one Grammy Awards, a BET Award, and a MTV VMAs. The song was praised as an "electro-bumpin'...infectious track",[1] perceived as more of a "bubblegum" pop track than rap.[21] The second track on the album, "Mr. Carter", was nominated for a Grammy while also peaking within the Hot 100. It was praised for featuring Jay-Z, which was seen as Jay-Z passing the throne to Wayne.[22][23] The second single, "A Milli", was a top ten hit and was praised as one of the best songs of 2008.[24] The song garnered countless freestyles and remixes, while Wayne's original version was praised with "spectacular rhyme".[23] "Dr. Carter", the sixth track, was also praised for lyrical content and humor as Wayne took on the persona of a doctor performing surgery on various patients (a metaphor for Wayne resurrecting hip-hop[22]).[21] "Tie My Hands", featuring Robin Thicke, was praised as a deep track featuring "political commentary" and "despair" with Thicke's performance being the most complementary to Wayne.[1] "Phone Home" also features various alien metaphors reminiscent of the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).[1][21]

Release and promotion

Leaks

After most of the album leaked on the Internet in mid-2007, Lil Wayne used the leaked tracks, plus four new songs to make an album titled The Leak.[3] The Leak was to be officially released on December 18, 2007, with the actual album being delayed until June 10, 2008.[25] When questioned about the unplanned leak, Lil Wayne said:

We have to find out exactly what's out there. I'll probably just [collect] all the songs that's floating around and make my own mixtape called The Leak since people want the music so bad. To tell you the truth though, there's a song I did with Kanye West out there—of course you want to save that for your album, but the rest of them songs probably wouldn't have made the album. There's a song floating around that says 'produced by Timbaland'.[26]

On May 24, 10 second snippets of multiple songs were leaked onto AT&T Media Mall.[27] On May 30-31st, Tha Carter III was leaked internationally. The first of the leaks were distributed on May 30 at around 8pm where five songs from the track list were available on the internet. Hours later on May 31 at 12am-1am the whole album was leaked and posted on various websites for free download. The DJ responsible for the leaks was DJ Chuck T who retaliated for an interview conducted by Wayne, where he discredited all DJ's and the mixtape scene days before.[28] Lil Wayne later called DJ Drama's radio show Shade 45 Sirius Satellite Radio to explain that his comments were meant specifically for DJ Empire who leaked his materials periodically without his permission, consent, or knowledge; he also apologized for any misunderstandings between him and the numerous DJ's that have aided him in the mixtape industry. He made it clear, however, that he wished for any feelings of dislike or resentment to remain.[29]

Singles

The album's lead single, "Lollipop", topped the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 for 5 non-consecutive weeks, making it Wayne's most successful single in his career. It features the late Rap singer Static Major. The album's second single, "A Milli", was another top ten. It reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100. It also won a Grammy for Best Rap Song. The video for the second single, "A Milli", was set to be released in May, and has since been mainstreamed. Multiple versions of the track were to be included on the album as "skit-like" tracks, featuring artists such as Tyga, Cory Gunz, Hurricane Chris and Lil Mama.[30] Another artist, 13-year-old Lil Chuckee, was also set to appear on one of the "A Milli" skits. None of the skits made the final cut of the album. The third single is "Got Money", featuring [T-Pain]. It reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100. The fourth single is "Mrs. Officer", featuring Bobby Valentino. It made the Top 20 in just 4 weeks. "Lollipop", "A Milli", "Got Money", and another track, "Mr. Carter", were nominated for a Grammy. Lil Wayne also performed "Tie My Hands" with Robin Thicke at the 51st Grammy Awards.

The album also featured the releases of promo singles. "3 Peat" peaked at #66 on the Billboard 100. "Ain't Got Nuthin'" featuring Fabolous & Juelz Santana was released as a promo single, peaking at #81 on the Billboard 100. "Mr. Carter", featuring Jay-Z, peaked at #62 on the Billboard 100, #27 on the Hot R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart, and #13 on the Top Rap Songs. It was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or a Group in 2009.

Lawsuit

On July 24, 2008, Abkco Music Inc. filed a lawsuit against Lil Wayne for copyright infringement and unfair competition, specifically referring to the track "Playing with Fire".[31] In the lawsuit, Abkco claims that the song was obviously derived from The Rolling Stones' "Play with Fire", to which Abkco owns the rights.[31][32] Subsequently, "Playing with Fire" was removed from the tracklist of Tha Carter III on all online music stores and replaced with the David Banner produced track, "Pussy Monster".[33][34][35]

Reception

 Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars[1]
Robert Christgau (A-)[36]
Entertainment Weekly (B-)[37]
Los Angeles Times 3/4 stars[38]
Pitchfork Media (8.7/10)[39]
PopMatters (8/10)[40]
Rolling Stone 4.5/5 stars[41]
Slant Magazine 3.5/5 stars[42]
USA Today 3.5/4 stars[43]
The Village Voice (mixed)[44]

Commercial performance

With opening day sales figures of approximately 223,000, the album sold 1,005,545 copies in its first week in the United States.[45] With its first week sales, it is the largest first week sales for any album in 2008 in the United States and the first album to reach the million mark in one week since 50 Cent's The Massacre (2005).[46] Tha Carter III has also reached the top spot in the Canadian Albums Chart, selling nearly 21,000 units. Elsewhere, the album achieved moderate success, entering at only number 23 in the UK and number 34 on the Irish Album Chart. In the album's second week, it sold a reported 309,000 copies, helping Tha Carter III towards becoming Lil Wayne's most successful selling album to date.[47]

Tha Carter III had sold approximately 2.88 million copies in 2008,[48] after selling another 985,000 and 964,000 in two week span week June 24–July 8 and well over 697.000 the following week in a 7 day span, becoming 2008's best-selling album.[49][50] By the end of 2008, it was named the best-selling album of the year in the United States by Billboard.[48] On February 12, 2009, the album was certified triple platinum in sales by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), following sales in excess of 3 million copies.[51] As of August 2010, it has sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide.[52]

Critical response

Upon its release, Tha Carter III received general acclaim from most music critics, based on an aggregate score of 84/100 from Metacritic.[53] The Source gave the album a rating of 4 out of 5 mics.[54] Rolling Stone writer Jody Rosen gave it 4½ out of 5 stars and praised its production and thematic structure.[41] Allmusic's David Jeffries gave the album 4 out of 5 stars and praised Wayne's "entertaining wordplay and plenty of well-executed, left-field ideas".[1] Entertainment Weekly writer Jon Caraminca gave the album a B- rating and wrote that it catapults Wayne into part of "rap's elite".[37] Giving it 5 out of 5 stars, NOW commended him for his energy and called Tha Carter III a "sub­versive masterpiece".[55] The Guardian's Alex Macpherson gave it 4 out of 5 stars and praised Wayne's rapping and lyrical ability, stating "Just trying to keep up with Wayne's mind as he proves the case is a thrill. He breaks language down into building blocks for new metaphors, exploiting every possible semantic and phonetic loophole for humour and yanking pop culture references into startling new contexts".[56] Blender writer Jonah Weiner gave it 4½ out of 5 stars and called it "a weird, gripping triumph".[57]

The Village Voice writer Tom Breihan called the album "a sprawling mess, and it clangs nearly as often as it clicks" and "a work of staggering heights and maddening inconsistencies", but commended Wayne for his unconventional performance, stating "On paper, this is a textbook focus-grouped major-label hodgepodge, replete with girl songs and club songs and street songs. But every facet of the album comes animated and atomized by Wayne's absurdist drug-gobbling persona".[44] Despite viewing it as "uneven", The Washington Post's J. Freedom du Lac commended Wayne for his "impulses to be outrageous and unconventional" and called him a "nonsensical genius".[58] Jon Pareles of The New York Times praised the album's production and Lil Wayne's lyrical maturity, stating "he has clearly worked to make 'Tha Carter III' a statement of its own: one that moves beyond standard hip-hop boasting (though there’s plenty of that) to thoughts that can be introspective or gleefully unhinged".[59]

Tha Carter III was ranked number one in Blender's list of the 33 best albums of 2008.[60] It was also ranked number three on Rolling Stone's list of the top 50 albums of 2008.[61] It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year,[62] and it won for Best Rap Album at the 2009 Grammy Awards, while "Lollipop" won for Best Rap Song and "A Milli" won for Best Rap Solo Performance.[63] Billboard magazine ranked the album number 103 on its list of the Top 200 Albums of the Decade.[64]

Track listing

No. Title Producer(s) Length
1. "3 Peat"   Maestro 3:19
2. "Mr. Carter" (feat. Jay-Z) Infamous, Drew Correa 5:16
3. "A Milli"   Bangladesh 3:41
4. "Got Money" (feat. T-Pain) Play-N-Skillz 4:04
5. "Comfortable" (feat. Babyface) Kanye West 4:25
6. "Dr. Carter"   Swizz Beatz 4:24
7. "Phone Home"   Cool & Dre 3:11
8. "Tie My Hands" (feat. Robin Thicke) Robin Thicke 5:19
9. "Mrs. Officer" (feat. Bobby V & Kidd Kidd1) Deezle 4:47
10. "Let the Beat Build"   Kanye West, Deezle 5:09
11. "Shoot Me Down" (feat. D. Smith) D. Smith 4:29
12. "Lollipop" (feat. Static Major) Jim Jonsin, Deezle 4:59
13. "La La" (feat. Brisco & Busta Rhymes) David Banner 4:21
14. "Playing with Fire²" (feat. Betty Wright) StreetRunner 4:21
15. "You Ain't Got Nuthin" (feat. Juelz Santana & Fabolous) The Alchemist, Deezle 5:27
16. "Dontgetit"   Rodnae & Mouse 9:52

1 Kidd Kidd is uncredited for his work on "Mrs. Officer" on the version of Tha Carter III with "Playing with Fire
² "Playing with Fire" was replaced by online music stores with "Pussy Monster" due to an ABKCO Records lawsuit [33][34][35]

Personnel

# Title Notes
1 "3 Peat"

Songwriters: D. Carter, V. Brooks
2 "Mr. Carter"

Songwriters: D. Carter, A. Correa, M. Rodriquez, S. Prescott, S. Carter
3 "A Milli"

Songwriters: D. Carter, S. Crawford, C. Hester
Samples: "Don't Burn Down the Bridge" by Gladys Knight & the Pips,
"I Left My Wallet in El Segundo (Vampire Mix)" by A Tribe Called Quest[65]
4 "Got Money"

Songwriters: D. Carter, F. Najm, J. Salinas, O. Salinas
5 "Comfortable"

Songwriters: D. Carter, K. West, K. Edmonds
Samples: "You Don't Know My Name" by Alicia Keys Samples: "Player's Ball" by OutKast
6 "Dr. Carter"

Songwriters: D. Carter, K. Dean, David Axelrod
Samples: "Holy Thursday" by David Axelrod
7 "Phone Home"

Songwriters: D. Carter, A. Lyon, M. Valenzano
8 "Tie My Hands"

Songwriters: D. Carter, R. Thicke
9 "Mrs. Officer"

Songwriters: D. Carter, D. Harrison, R. Wilson
10 "Let the Beat Build"

Songwriters: D. Carter, K. West
Samples: "Day by Day" by Eddie Kendricks
11 "Shoot Me Down"

Songwriters: D. Carter, D. Smith
12 "Lollipop"

Songwriters: D. Carter, S. Garrett, J. Scheffer, D. Harrison, R. Zamor
13 "La La"

Songwriters: D. Carter, L. Crump, B. Mitchell, T. Smith
14 "Playing with Fire"

Songwriters: D. Carter, N. Warwar, J. Desrouleaux
15 "You Ain't Got Nuthin"

Songwriters: D. Carter, J. Jackson, A. Maman, L. James
16 "DontGetIt"

Songwriters: D. Carter, R. Young Mousa, B. Benjamin, G. Caldwell, S. Marcus
Samples: "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" by Nina Simone
* "Action"

Songwriters: D. Carter
Samples: "I'm So Hood" by DJ Khaled
* "I'm Me"

Songwriters: D. Carter, L. Mollings, J. Mollings
Samples: "Go D.J.", "Fireman", "Hustler Musik", "Cash Money Millionaires" by Lil Wayne,
"God Moving Over the Face of the Waters" by Moby, "Rubberband Man" by T.I.
* "Gossip"**

Songwriters: D. Carter, L. Dozier, B. Holland, E. Holland, N. Warwar
Samples: "Stop in the Name of Love" by Margie Joseph
* "Kush"

Songwriters: D. Carter, V. Brooks, L.L. McCall, L. McCall, D. Thomas
Samples: "Honey Wild" by Con Funk Shun

Chart history

Chart positions

Chart Provider Position Certification
Australian ARIA Albums Chart ARIA
47
Canadian Albums Chart Nielsen SoundScan
1
2× Platinum[66]
Dutch Albums Chart Dutch Albums Chart
21[67]
French Albums Chart French Albums Chart
25[68]
1x Bronze
Irish Album Chart IRMA
34
UK Album Chart The Official UK Charts Company
23[69]
Gold
U.S. Billboard 200 RIAA
1
3× Platinum[70]
German Albums Chart Media Control Charts
29

Chart procession and succession

Preceded by
Indestructible by Disturbed		 U.S. Billboard 200 number-one album (first run)
June 22, 2008 – June 28, 2008		 Succeeded by
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay
Preceded by
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay		 U.S. Billboard 200 number-one album (second run)
July 13, 2008 – July 26, 2008		 Succeeded by
Untitled by Nas
Preceded by
Indestructible by Disturbed		 Canadian Albums Chart
June 28, 2008		 Succeeded by
Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay

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Lil Wayne
Discography · Videography · Awards
Studio albums
Tha Block Is Hot · Lights Out · 500 Degreez · Tha Carter · Tha Carter II · Tha Carter III · Rebirth · I Am Not a Human Being  · Tha Carter IV
Collaboration albums
Like Father, Like Son · We Are Young Money · I Can't Feel My Face
Mixtapes & EPs
The Prefix · Suffix · Dedication · Dedication 2 · Da Drought 3 · The Leak · Dedication 3  · No Ceilings · Dedication 4
Tours
I Am Music Tour · America's Most Wanted Tour
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