28, 20,000) and DJ Skribble’s mix “Total Club Hits” (Thrive/Red, No. 24, 24,000), the soundtrack to Nickelodeon’s “iCarly” (Sony, No. 22, 27,000), Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan’s “Seeing Things” (Columbia/Starbucks, No. 20, 27,000), veteran singer Emmylou Harris’ “All I Intended to Be” (Nonesuch, No. Other debuts this week include country mainstay Montgomery Gentry’s “Back When I Knew It All” (Columbia, No. Rounding out the top tier, Weezer’s third self-titled Geffen set falls from No.
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MMJ’s previous chart high-water mark came with 2005’s “Z,” which topped out at No. My Morning Jacket’s “Evil Urges” sold 49,000 copies to give the band its first top 10 album, debuting at No.
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8 with 70,0 album, “So-Called Chaos,” peaked at No. Alanis Morisette’s “Flavors of Entanglement” (Warner Bros.) debuts No. With its first album in four years, hip-hop trio N.E.R.D.’s “Seeing Sounds” (Star Trak/Interscope) bows at No. Journey’s Wal-Mart exclusive album “Revelation” is down from fifth to sixth on a 15% sales slide to 89,000. With 101,000 units, Usher’s “Here I Stand (LaFace/Zomba) endures a 30% slip and drops from No. 3 with 132,000 copies, a 28% sales decrease. The multilabel “Now 28” compilation slips a notch from No. His current hit “Bust It Baby Part 2” featuring Ne-Yo is working its way up the Hot 100, sitting at No. 2, the same position his 2007 album “The Real Testament” achieved. The Carter is a 2009 documentary film about the American hip hop recording artist Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., better known as Lil Wayne.The film was directed by Adam Bhala Lough and produced by Joshua Krause and Quincy Jones III, and documents Lil Wayne in the period before and shortly after the release of his studio album, Tha Carter III, which achieved platinum status and critical acclaim. Plies’ “Definition of Real” (Big Gates/Slip-N-Slide) sold 215,000 to debut at No. But I prefer Lil Wayne in untrammeled mixtape mode, and there's plenty of that on the new release as well, especially the slightly pricier deluxe version.No album in 2006 sold as many as 800,000 copies in a single frame, and the largest sales week since “The Massacre” belonged to Kanye West’s “Graduation,” which netted an opener of 957,000 copies last year when it hit stores on Sept. 1 single, the double-entendre confection "Lollipop." There's a Kanye-produced slow jam called "Comfortable" on the album as well. It wasn't just mixtapes that built demand for Tha Carter III, which also includes his first No. Notice too the chopped-up bass-and-drums. Carter," where he dons scrubs to try and cure a fake rapper. The range of his style is even clearer on "Dr. Officer," typify Lil Wayne's shape-shifting rap technique. The chuckles, singsongs, and timbre shifts of a song on the new album called "Mrs. That tendency is all over the official album as well. On his mixtapes, he's evolved out of conventional bling-thug rhetoric into something much looser and more playful, treating gangsta rap's antisocial themes primarily as an arena for wordplay. Tha Carter III is Lil Wayne's sixth official solo album. At 25, he's been rapping professionally since he was 11.
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I own about half a dozen Lil Wayne mixtapes, and there are many more out there.
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Theoretically, this is OK because the Carter 3 mixtape where it appears isn't for sale, although artists and bootleggers do sell mixtapes under the counter, at brick-and-mortar holes in the wall and online. The Beatles sample with the submerged bass drum could never have been cleared for commercial release. "Help," off the Carter 3 mixtape isn't Lil Wayne at his very best, although I love it - just Lil Wayne at his most blatant. A bunch of them are wilder than anything on the hit release, and at least as good. Many of these songs were supposedly slated for the official album very few ended up there. Twice he put out double-CDs of his own new songs, some over famous beats, some over original music. He seemed to record all the time, free-associating verbally and vocally. But Lil Wayne was so prolific on the mixtape scene that he redefined it. Most hip-hop artists nowadays prime the pump with gray-market mixtape CDs that add guest tracks, skits, freestyles, and other second-drawer material to scattered previews of their next album. In the two-and-a-half years between major-label releases, Lil Wayne whetted his fans' appetites by giving away more songs than anyone can count. Tha Carter III's first-week sales, which were easily pop's strongest since Kanye West's Graduation last September, were spurred by a daring marketing strategy that doubled as a cocky musical challenge. In the week after its June 10 release, New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne moved a million copies of Tha Carter III, his first official album in two-and-a-half years. Lil Wayne's latest album is Tha Carter III.