Tha Carter is a 2004 rap album by American rapper Lil Wayne. The album was produced by Cash Money Records's former in-house producer, Mannie Fresh. This was the last album from longtime in-house producer Mannie Fresh before Fresh split from the label.
Tha Carter followed Lil Wayne's work in Tha Drought mixtape and Tha Prefix mixtape, where he freestyled over The Black Album. Tha Carter peaked at number five on the 2004 Billboard 200, and at numbe...
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Tha Carter is a 2004 rap album by American rapper Lil Wayne. The album was produced by Cash Money Records's former in-house producer, Mannie Fresh. This was the last album from longtime in-house producer Mannie Fresh before Fresh split from the label.
Tha Carter followed Lil Wayne's work in Tha Drought mixtape and Tha Prefix mixtape, where he freestyled over The Black Album. Tha Carter peaked at number five on the 2004 Billboard 200, and at number two on the Billboard Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums.
The album is loosely based around the mansion owned by Lil Wayne; "Walk In", "Inside" and "Walk Out" all feature Wayne describing his lavish home as sort of a "Super Crackhouse" - a huge building made for the soul purpose of creating and distributing all sorts of different kinds of drugs, very similar to "The Carter" apartment complex from hit-movie New Jack City . Tha Carter is generally considered Lil Wayne's "break out" album, due to the obvious maturity in both his subject matter and delivery...
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