Tha Carter III

Tha Carter III is the sixth studio album by American rapper Lil Wayne. It was released on June 10, 2008 at Cash Money Records. With 2.88 million copies sold, it is the biggest selling album of 2008 in the U.S.. Tha Carter III has been awarded twice a month after publication with platinum. To date, over 3.4 million copies have been sold worldwide. Some songs on Tha Carter III would have to appear came earlier to the Internet and have been previously published as " The Leak " EP. These songs have been added as Deluxe Edition later on LP.

Singles

The first single Lollipop ( ft. Static Major ) is also the most successful to date single by Lil Wayne. She stood five weeks at the top of the Billboard Top 100 in the U.S.. In Germany the song reached rank 22 of the Media Control Charts. Lollipop appeared two weeks after Static Major died due to complications from surgery. The single was awarded by the RIAA with quadruple platinum. On April 22, Lil Wayne brought exclusively in North America, the single A Milli on the market. In the United States, the song was ranked 6th A Milli was chosen by MTV to hip -hop song of the year 2008. Only about a month later, on May 27, appeared in " Got Money ", a collaboration with T -Pain. The single was the second single that could go into the German charts and # 67 ranked, while in the United States number 10 was reached. The video for Got Money was shot on the same day as the clip for " A Milli ". In addition to the single sequence Mrs. Officer ( feat. Bobby Valentino ), which reached number 16 in the U.S. and its video is a continuation of the music video for A Milli and Got Money, the unausgekoppelten song " You Is not Got Nothin ' " placed ( feat. Fabolous and Juelz Santana ), "Mr. Carter (feat. Jay -Z ), and Comfortable (feat. Babyface ) on the Billboard Hot 100

Title list

Reviews

Almost unanimously, Tha Carter III was elected in the United States the most important and best hip -hop albums of the year 2008. So it was recently named Blender magazine, the LP at the best album of the year, Rolling Stone magazine selected Tha Carter III on the 3rd place of the "Top 50 Albums of the Year" and in 2012 at No. 437 to its list of the 500 best albums of all time. The German music portals were divided. While cdstarts.de was only 6.5 out of 10 points, the album reached 8 points from laut.de and plattentests.de 7 points. The calculated by Metacritic average of 84 out of 100.