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Article: The Last Mega-Seller.
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- New York
- Article date:
- December 15, 2008
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Compared with the tortured history of Chinese Democracy, the almost three years it took Lil Wayne to follow up The Carter II look like a model of recording efficiency. But thanks to a series of brilliant mix tapes, half-finished demo leaks, and pushed-back release dates, no musician faced more pressure this year (we gave up on Axl a long time ago). Could Wayne finally create the classic album everybody believed he had in him? Had he wasted all his hest verses on songs that were never officially released? Would his apparently escalating affinity for drugs derail his singularly eccentric flow? Would the album ever actually come out? The Carter III answered all questions, ...
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