Lil Wayne’s Carter IV in stores August 29.

The VMA’s will be live at the Nokia Theatre in L.A on August 28. To promote the event MTV enlist Lil Wayne for this commercial.

Lil Wayne talks with XXL magazine about his retirement in the July/August Issue.

Wayne saying being a good father to his children would be the cause for an retirement. “Honestly, this is the real truth,” he says. “I honestly think it’s unfair to my kids. I’m super dedicated into what I do. Like, it’s no questions—it’s hands down, I do this. I live this. I don’t have a day out my week that I do something else. I do this every day of my life, and I’m not about to stop, ’cause that’s the only way you can succeed in this business, is to do it the way I do it. I want to succeed the way I want to succeed. You can succeed. You can put out a hit… But to do it the way I want to do it, to be comfortable to do what the fuck I want to do, you’ve got to work like no other. Like I said, it’s unfair to my kids. So about 30, 31, 32, I gotta get ready.

Lil Wayne’s Carter IV has been pushed back for a June release date but the album cover has been generating a lot of buzz.

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Hype Williams directs Lil Wayne’s big single 6’7″ which takes plenty of inspiration from Inception. One can only imagine what it would be like to be caught in one of Lil Wayne’s dreams.

Lil Wayne graces the front cover of “Rollingstone” magazine for the third time in his music careers. But this time…you get to see even more of his white boxers. Yay! Issue hits stores later this week.

JumoOff TV debates whether T.I’s imprisonment helped him sell 160K copies of No Mercy or was it the support of his fan base. While Lil Wayne was incarcerated  Rebirth sold a total of  710,000 copies and I Am Not a Human Being stands at 664,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan. Lil Wayne and T.I didn’t have any strong promo and yet their fan base still went out to support their records. Does a jail record help you sell records? Tell us your thoughts.

There is a nice big phat article on Yahoo! today about Lil Wayne’s stardom and popularity still going strong despite his over eight months behind bars. It talks about his album I Am Not A Human Being at #1, his blog as a way to connect to fans and how Cash Money had an actual strategy implemented to ensure Weezy’s success while in jail.

“The challenge was to make sure you feel like he never left,” says Bryan “Birdman” Williams, the Cash Money Records co-founder who has fostered Lil Wayne’s career since the rapper’s teens. “We came with a good strategy, and it worked.”

What’s even more interesting is that Cash Money potentially has found a way to make even more money off Weezy’s stint. It’s no secret that left in solitary confinement, Weezy turned to writing in a journal to get his thoughts out. Word is after Weezy is set free he plans to take his journal and publish it in its entirety. It’s actually a pretty cool marketing hook when you think about it. He’s probably crazier off of the lean than on it.