This is the upcoming album of the self acclaimed 'best rapper alive' Carter lil wayne.Its official release date is quoted as August 29 2011.
This will be the rappers ninth album.
The 2008 best selling album Carter III's achievement of selling over 3 million copies,wayne began recording the album in early October 2008,but later that month he claimed that he did not want this to follow Tha Carter III immediately.
Confirmed guests on the carter 4 include Kanye West, T-Pain,Young Jeezy, Drake, Jadakiss and Kevin Rudolf who have reportedly worked with weezy on the album. Tech N9ne,Rick Ross an Cory Gunz have been confirmed as features on the album.
The album's lead single "6 Foot 7 Foot", was released on December 19, 2010 and was produced by "A Milli" producer Bangladesh. The song samples from "Day-O (The Banana
Boat Song)" by Harry Belafonte. The song features Cory Gunz and peaked at number 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.Its video seems to draw alot from the movie Inception featuring leonardo di caprio.
On March 23, 2011, "John", which features Rick Ross, was released, and is produced by Polow Da Don. The song samples Rick Ross' "I'm Not a Star" hook, the first track off Teflon Don.The song peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100.
On April 2, 2011, a snippet of a track named "Tragedy" was uploaded by Funkmaster Flex and stated that it may land its way on the album. Although the snippet only featured Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne was mentioned.
On April 21, 2011, Mack Maine said that the next single will be similar to his track "Lollipop". He said “it’s more along the lines of a ‘Lollipop’. People call [them] crossover records and all of that, but [it will be] just one of those [records] that will be liked by the masses.” It is said that the song will be produced by Jim Jonsin and it will feature American rapper Pitbull.