But if anyone can make it, I suppose Weezy can. The relationship between record companies and distributors like Amazon, iTunes, and traditional record stores is dysfunctional, if not entirely acrimonious.Īnd the future of the entire industry seems in flux. We've all been hearing about the death of the CD, but the foolishness of this past week really puts it in perspective. The last big rap album event, Jay-Z's Blueprint III, actually hit online streaming sites like Rhapsody an entire week before the CDs hit shelves - and that was on purpose.Īnd if you dug hard enough, you could find all of Rihanna's Rated R online before its official release date last month. Some tracks are being cut, some are being added - he's doing any and everything to make sure people actually have a reason to legally buy Rebirth when it hits shelves.īesides making us all wonder just how much Amazon should be forced to pay Lil Wayne and his crew for perhaps the biggest musical screw-up since Stevie Wonder and the Jonas Brothers at last year's Grammys - the Rebirth saga should make us all question the actual point of album release dates. So much for that whole 'album release day' idea.Īs a result, Wayne's headed back to the studio to entirely reconfigure the new disc.
Within hours, the entire album was leaked online. In spite of this, scores of fans still pre-ordered Rebirth ahead of the January 2010 release date.īut this past Monday, about 500 Wayne fans who pre-ordered the disc on got an early Christmahanakwanzika present - a copy of Rebirth, in their mailboxes.Īnd as you can already guess, as soon as the album hit mailboxes, it hit the Net. So, clearly, anticipation for his next disc, a rock-infused romp entitled Rebirth, has been high.īut, early singles, like " Prom Queen", never really caught on, and in my opinion, they sucked. Wayne's last album, Tha Carter III, was the biggest selling album of 2008. And the recent woes of America's biggest rapper, Lil Wayne, are proof. Tha Carter (2004) brought Lil Wayne even more success, specifically the hit single Go D.J.
In October 2008, Lil Wayne headlined the Voodoo Experience concert in his hometown of New Orleans and also announced plans to reunite with the Hot Boys to release a new album of material. Tha Carter III earned Lil Wayne four Grammy Awards including Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song.
Or going to Sam Goody on a Tuesday morning for that new CD, or cassette, (or eight-track)? Get It How U Live, released in 1997, was Lil Wayneâs first album with Hot Boy.Lil Waynes first solo album, Tha Block is Hot (1999), was certified platinum.His following albums, Lights Out (2000) and 500 Degreez (2002), went gold. It wasn’t just the fans that were impressed with the album. Remember waiting for your favorite album to come out? You know, patiently anticipating the release as the first single played over and over on your favorite radio station. Amazon mistakenly leaks Lil Wayne's new album.
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