In the past couple of years, you’ve won over lots of fans and critics. Your popularity has skyrocketed. What’s your mind-set right now with Tha Carter III coming out? My mind-set is always the same. I’m never there. That’s the mind-set I stay with: You’re never there, until you’re there. Where is there? Do you [...]

Complex: So if you have 270 songs and nobody’s heard them, how do you get paid off them? LIL WAYNE: Tax and little s–t. When n–gas get s–t that be leaking, we gotta figure out a way to beat this leak s–t-out of 200 something songs, you’re going to get songs leaked, so that’s why [...]

Seems like every young music star you meet these days just can’t wait until they can do it all–writing, playing, producing–themselves.But not 16-year-old Lil’ Wayne. The youngest member of the Hot Boys, who’s just released his debut album, Tha Block Is Hot, isn’t exactly a control freak. “I don’t have no ideas for tracks. I [...]

IGN Music: What’s up with The Carter? You were initially supposed to drop the album last year. Then it got pushed back to the beginning of 2004. And finally it’s set to drop this summer. Gimme the scoop.Lil’ Wayne: What happened was there was a change in the music. And some of the artists that [...]