Lil Wayne let XXL Magazine preview his forthcoming Tha Carter IV album, while they interviewed him for their July/August 2011 issue that will hit newsstands tomorrow (July 12th). They say the Outro on the album will feature Nas, Shyne and Jadakiss, and also say Weezy‘s Young Money crew, Busta Rhymes, Bun B, Tech N9ne, Cee-Lo Green, John Legend, and Will.I.Am will all be featured on different songs on the album. XXL say that Swizz Beatz, Bangladesh, Polow Da Don and Boi-1da all provided beats too!

We won’t know if this list of names are really featured on C4 or not until we get the official tracklist, which hopefully should be soon. I also noticed Rick Ross wasn’t listed as a feature, so maybe “John (If I Die Today)” was scrapped from the album

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We finally get the CDQ for Drake‘s third single from his upcoming album dropping on June 15th, Thank Me Later! The record called “Miss Me” was produced by Boi-1da and 40, and features Lil Wayne. They shot a music video for this song before Wayne went to jail, so hopefully we can be expecting that video to drop in the next month or so. Both Drizzy and Weezy murder this song, and you can stream/download it below:

Download: Drake – Miss Me (Feat Lil Wayne) [Rapidshare] | Drake – Miss Me (Feat Lil Wayne) [Usershare] [Updated with the mastered, dirty, CD quality version!]

Props to OVO

First things first, here is the mastered version of Young Jeezy‘s street single from Thug Motivation 103 titled “Scared Money” which features Lil Wayne. Boi-1da produced this record, and you can stream/download it below:

Download: Young Jeezy – Scared Money (Feat Lil Wayne) [Mastered] (Props to D-Amaya via DJ Folk)

If you haven’t already, you can also check out 30 second snippets of Young Money‘s “We Are Young Money” album at YMHQ

I am not exactly sure why I am posting this little article about Lil Wayne‘s crib, but I am sure some of you will find it very interesting

Lil Wayne currently rents a three-bedroom, two bathroom apartment in South Beach that’s up for sale for $520,000, and Str8NYC found out that a prospective buyer who recently toured Weezy‘s crib told Page Six that his crib smells of weed, and half-naked girls walk around blasting Hip Hop music:

“My fiancée and I called to make an appointment to see it, and the broker, deadpan, goes, ‘I have two questions: Are you offended by the smell of marijuana? And do you mind coming late in the afternoon? It’s currently rented by Lil Wayne, and these are not morning people. Once we got there, a member of Wayne’s posse opened the door to the overwhelming smell of marijuana. Two hot, rap-video-looking girls were walking around in nothing but a bra and underwear, blasting hip-hop. We just went in and looked around and tried not to stare.”

However, the prospective buyer insists Lil Wayne is actually very neat.

“He had a perfectly organized closet of crisp T-shirts on hangers, neatly stacked piles of XXL magazine, and a fully stocked bar featuring multiple bottles of Hennessy Black.”

Here is the mastered version of Drake‘s “Forever” track which features Lil Wayne, Kanye West and Eminem. This will be the final version of the record and it looks like they didn’t go with a R&B singer on the hook. The only difference I seemed to hear was that Kanye added a few extra bars at the beginning of his verse. This song was produced by Boi-1da and these 4 superstars will shoot the video for this massive hit next month!

Download: Rapidshare | zShare

Enjoy and props to Oliver

With “Forever,” the monster collaboration by Toronto-upstart Drake and rap superstars Kanye West, Lil Wayne and Eminem, leaking onto the net yesterday (August 26) and subsequently causing a frenzy with hip-hop fans, XXLMag.com caught up with producer Boi-1da to get more insight into how the song came together.

According to the T-Dot beatmaker, the track was initially meant to introduce Drake last year. “We made that song maybe last summer,” he explained to XXL. “It was originally supposed to be a song that Drake was supposed to come out to, maybe we were trying to make it like a first single. Somehow it got leaked out onto the Internet, a version with him, Wayne and some dude named [Nut da] Kid and everybody was upset about it or whatever, but we knew that it was just a huge record and we had to do it justice.”

The song’s rebirth started about three months ago when Kanye decided to record a verse. “Originally it was supposed to be Drake and Kanye,” he continued, “but the forces that be pulled some strings and we got Eminem and Wayne on it too.“

Boi-1da says that Drake wrote the hook and his verse first. Then Kanye penned his bars as a response to Drake. Wayne then recorded his verse after hearing Drizzy and Ye’s, and Em heard everyone’s rhymes before writing his own.

When asked who he feels spit the best verse, Boi-1da was quick to state his opinion. “Honestly I’m gonna have to be biased and say Drake,” he said, “really it’s between Drake and Eminem. I’ve never seen anybody hold up on a song with Eminem, like usually Eminem blows out. Drakes my dude, and he’s my favorite rapper, but knowing Eminem I thought he was gonna blow by everybody, but Drake came strong. It’s like a toss up. And like that’s never been done before, I never head a toss up between Eminem, it’s always just Eminem cause he’s a monster.”

Mack Maine, president of Young Money Records, told MTV news that they are currently trying out R&B singers to redo the chorus. “That’s news to me,” he said. “I like the hook as it is.”

“Forever” hits iTunes tomorrow. It will be included in the soundrack to the LeBron James documentary More Than a Game.

I have heard that Chris Brown, Lloyd, The Dream, Trey Songz and Jeremiah have all layed down a hook for this song, and which ever hook sounds the best will get used on the final version, but these are just rumors!

Also, what a day yesterday ey guys So many people where on this website after we first leaked the “Forever” song that it crashed.

PS: Check out our “Name Lil Twist’s Upcoming Mixtape Contest”!