Lil’ Wayne reminds of the late writer Charles Bukowski. After labeling himself the Best Rapper Alive a few years ago, he is on a mission to prove it, and he has definitely built up a solid body of work to prove his claim. He has also been on practically every album released last year, offering his croaky voice to artists as diverse as Jay-Z and Little Brother. He has recorded and released a bajillion songs in 2007, and almost as many mixtapes. He is going through an insanely prolific creative streak, even by hip hop’s album-a-year standards. There is no question that Wayne is on the roll of a lifetime. Who pays for his studio time? Who pays the producer? How do you make money when you pay Kanye for a beat and then release it on a mixtape? Most importantly, how does Universal, his record label, feel about all of this? What really confuses me is how this fits in with Wayne’s other mixtape releases this year, or how these mixtapes work with his business plan in general. It isn’t a mixtape, per se â€“ where’s the loud cover? Where are the DJ shout-outs? Where’s Young Money’s commentary? From what I can gather from the Internet, this is a collection of leaked material from the “Carter III” sessions that Wayne decided to release as a mixtape. The cover has a picture of Lil’ Wayne with “The Carter III” written on it, but when I put the disc in my computer, itunes called it “The Leak” (not to be confused with the EP of the same name released electronically in December).

It’s in a slim jewel case with no information about who released it.

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