Mack Maine just released the CDQ/tagless version of one of the first songs him and Lil Wayne recorded called “Ryde 4 Me“. The track appeared on Mack‘s Bitch I’m Mack Maine mixtape back in 2007, but was lower-quality and had DJ tags on. You can listen and download this joint to update your iTunes collection with below:

Download: Mack Maine – Ryde 4 Me (Feat Lil Wayne) [CDQ]

Hit the jump to check out T-Pain speaking to Rap-Up about how he got Weezy F Baby on “Bang Bang Pow Pow” (says Wayne recorded his verse in one night), as well as saying that even though they recorded about 8-9 songs together for the T-Wayne collaboration album, he thinks Tunechi is over the idea of it now.

The homie Jason recently talked to Young Money’s Lil Chuckee about an upcoming collaboration he has with his YM boss, Lil Wayne. This marks their first collabo together and we should be getting the track before this year ends. The full interview will be posted on YoungMoneyHQ soon, but you can read a preview from it below:

Jason: We’ve all been waiting for your debut album a while now.
Lil Chuckee: Yeah, we gonna work on it, a lot of people are waiting on that Lil Chuckee album. A lot of people been waitin’ on that Lil Chuckee and Lil Wayne song too. I got something coming out real soon. It’s about to be retarded.

Jason: Oh really? That’s gonna be crazy. What’s the song about?
Lil Chuckee: I wanna say….no, no (laughing) I can’t say anything. I don’t wanna spoil it. This is our first song together, so it’s gonna be great. It’s comin’, you just gotta wait for it.

After the jump, you can view some pics from Weezy‘s photo shoot with VIBE magazine for their October/November issue that is currently on newsstands.

PREVIOUS: Video: Lil Wayne’s VIBE Magazine Photo Shoot

Earlier, Drake told XXL Magazine that him and Lil Wayne have agreed to scrap their joint project, because it would just be compared to Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne album every time. Drizzy is still planning to do a collabo mixtape with Rick Ross though, so I am sure we will see quite a few YMCMB and MMG collaborations on there!

“Me and Wayne scrapped the idea of a collaboration album,” Drake told XXL. “We just agreed that it would be looked upon as… It would be sort of this competition with Watch The Throne. I feel like it would get caught in this whirlwind of hype. Wayne agreed. We just said, ‘If we do it, we’ll do it down the line. But right now is not the time.’”

In other Weezy news, MTV recently announced that Tunechi and Birdman will be performing “Y.U. Mad” live at the first annual MTV2 Sucker Free Awards in Miami. The show, which will be hosted by Sway Calloway, will air on Sunday, December 4th at 11PM EST at the LIV Fontainebleau in South Beach.

Bow Wow dropped his new single just over a week ago from his upcoming Underrated album, which will be released on December 6th, but we now have the official mastered CDQ version of “Sweat” featuring Lil Wayne that was produced by Detail. The music video should be dropping in the next couple of weeks and you can stream/download the single below, courtesy of HHNM!

Download: Bow Wow – Sweat (Feat Lil Wayne) [Mastered]

Check out the lyrics to the track here and hit the jump to watch some footage of producer Detail speaking about how this collabo nearly didn’t happen, because Bow and Weezy already have a record together.

“Obviously everybody knows I got a very diverse sound — I can do pop, I can do rock, I can do hip-hop, R&B,” the very confident “How to Love” beatmaker told Mixtape Daily. “For me it’s just a matter of studying the artist and kinda coming up with a formula that’s more natural for them.”

“At Lil Wayne’s Carter IV release party, I was talking to Maine about the ‘Sweat’ record. He hadn’t even heard it. He was like, ‘Wayne already got a record with Bow Wow,’ ” Detail recalled of his and Mack’s conversation.

Given Detail’s track record for crafting hit singles with Young Money, Mack agreed to listen to the beat, which the producer sent him right away. “He hit me back and said, ‘Damn that bitch is a beast,’ ” Detail said. “So when he said that, I knew off the top that this motherfucker gonna go.”

Last week, Mack Maine announced that Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana are back working on their collabo album, I Can’t Feel My Face. After years of the album not being released, Mack did say they will drop it before this year ends. Juelz Santana also told Vibe recently that Wayne had sent him 8 new songs and they will be doing about 20 – 30 new songs for the album (they previously did 45 tracks, but about half of them got leaked).

In another excerpt from Lil Wayne‘s feature in VIBE Magazine‘s October/November issue, Weezy speaks on possibly doing a collaboration project with Rick Ross.

According to Wayne, a project with Miami rap don Rick Ross is being eyed. For Weezy, who seems to have a real synergy with Ricky as evident by their last bruising tag-team statement “John,” working with the stout rapper has become effortless. “It’s really easy,” Wayne told VIBE. “I just know how to jump in Rick’s zone and I’m sure he does the same when it’s a song with me on it. I guess it’s just some kind of musical connection.”

Wayne, who is also rumored to also be working on a joint album with his platinum Young Money artist and cohort Drake, believes that being able to collaborate with other acts is the true measure of talent. “As an artist, I can get in your world,” explains Wayne. “That’s the beauty of music for me. That’s what it’s all about: just adjusting to where I’m at musically, adjusting to the belly of the beast and making the most of it with other artists.”

This just shows that Tunechi is still working hard in the studio, as we know he is already working on another YMCMB compilation and the I Can’t Feel My Face collabo album with Juelz Santana. Maybe Wayne and Drake will scrap working on a collabo album together and just work on one with Rick Ross This would be dope, because personally I think Tune, Drizzy and Rozay are the hottest 3 rappers in the music game today!

In other Lil Wayne news, we can expect Robin Thicke’s “Pretty Little Heart” single featuring Weezy to drop next week and B.o.B’s “Strange Clouds” single featuring Weezy to drop on October 3rd.

According to Mack Maine, Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana are back working on their collabo album called I Can’t Feel My Face. We were supposed to get the collaboration album years ago, but they kept pushing back on releasing it because of “label politics”.

“The next project he’s working on is I Can’t Feel My Face with Juelz Santana,” Maine told XXLMag.com over the phone. “Elz is talented man. He’s a young legend. Wayne’s back working in the studio. He has that and the Young Money album.”

Mack also told XXL that we would get I Can’t Feel My Face before this year ends, along with another YMCMB compilation. He also mentioned that Weezy will be releasing another two Carter albums (Tha Carter V and Tha Carter VI), as well as a sequel to Rebirth sometime in his music career.

MTV recently announced the nominees for their Video Music Awards, which will air live on August 28th at 9PM EST. Weezy picked up 2 nominations for “Best Hip Hop Video” for “6 Foot, 7 Foot” and “Look At Me Now“, and 1 nomination for “Best Collaboration” for “Look At Me Now“. You can see the full list of the nominations here, and don’t forget that Tunechi‘s Tha Carter IV will be able to purchase as soon as this show ends.

In other news, we can expect to hear a Maino and Lil Wayne collaboration some time this year, and you can check out some footage of Lil Wayne and Mack Maine on the set of Lil Twist‘s “New Money” video shoot after the jump, courtesy of DG.

Haha, Tune was doing his “hustle” dance again

Birdman spoke to Billboard recently about Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter IV album, their collabo album titled Like Father, Like Son 2, which they plan to drop in December later this year, his forthcoming Bigga Than Life album, and more! Hit the jump for the full interview:

Fans can expect “a new Wayne” when Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV” is released on May 16, according to executive producer and Cash Money Records co-chief Bryan “Birdman” Williams.

“He sounds brand new to me,” Birdman tells Billboard.com. “There’s a new energy… just a different energy. He can still rap his ass off, but he took his raps to another level. To me, he went back to that traditional raw Cash Money music, just raw beats, 808s popping off and Wayne rapping, hard. It really sounds great to me.”

Birdman says Wayne’s eight-month incarceration in 2010 may have given him the rapper a new resolve and purpose. “He got to sleep for eight months,” he explains, “and I think the rest gave him another energy, and he’s pouring it all out through his music.” And that music is apparently still coming, even though the deadline for turning in “Tha Carter IV” is nearing.

“Really the hardest part of Wayne’s albums is picking the songs, because he has so many great records and while we narrow it down he’ll still be recording,” Birdman says. “Wayne will change a song and change his mind right to the end, so we’re never done ’til it’s done — and even then we’re still recording and working on the next album. But that’s OK; our last songs will always be our biggest songs, so we work all the way ’til the end.”

Birdman says “The Carter IV” will feature appearances by most of the Cash Money crew — including himself, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Mack Maine and Tyga — while Rick Ross is at this point the only outsider involved in the album. “He kept it to the family,” Birdman notes. “It’s basically just the team.”

Once “The Carter IV” is wrapped, Birdman says he and Wayne plan to proceed on a sequel to their 2006 collaboration “Like Father, Like Son.” “We’re looking to do that in December some time, after we all drop our solos albums and go on tour,” he says. “We have a lot of songs we did before (Wayne) went (to jail), and we’ve been working since he came home. All we’ve got to do is pick. And Wayne likes to be fresh with our music, so we might wait… and just knock out 20 songs right quick and put those on the album.”

Birdman, meanwhile, is “kind of finished” with his next album, “Bigga Than Life,” which is due out July 7. That said, he adds that “we’re still recording. I don’t have to turn it in ’til next month, so we continue to record, ’cause that’s how we work. I’m content with what I have now, though.” The first single from the set will be “Why You Mad?,” which Birdman describes as “clubbish, uptempo, hot” with guest appearances from Lil Wayne and Minaj. Other Cash Money artists and Game will also appear on the album.

Cash Money is planning for a busy year, too, which will also include releases by Drake, Minaj, Kevin Rudolf, Lil Twist, Mack Maine, Shanell and Tyga. “It feels like a new excitement around here,” Birdman reports. “We had Nicki blast off, Drake blast off, Wayne’s back…It just feels like a whole new excitement around here. It’s a real family, a team. We look after each other and are there for each other. We dedicate our life to this, and we make sacrifices for success. There’s no stopping with us.”

In the April issue of Interview Magazine, the bad boy rapper and party-girl hotel heiress bonded over their love for music, Miami clubs, and freedom (both served time behind bars in recent years).

Hilton took a break from filming her upcoming reality show in L.A. to interview Wayne in Miami, via phone. What broke the ice for the two fast-living mega-stars? Chatting about jail, of course.

“For me it was okay because it just meant that I was alone with my thoughts,” said Wayne of his one-month stint in solitary confinement, after being caught with an iPod at Rikers Island last year.

“There were times when it was pretty tough to be by yourself, and to have no television, no sort of nothing…I was okay. I did fine,” said Wayne, who released an album in jail.

Hilton, who served 23 days in prison in 2007 after violating her probation for repeatedly driving on a suspended license and ignoring court orders, empathized.

“I know how you feel,” said the 30-year-old socialite. “It’s the best feeling in the world when you come out.”

Hilton and Wayne are currently each working on their music careers. They even exchanged phone numbers for a future collaboration.

“That would be the sickest thing,” said Hilton, who said she hopes to release her second album this summer.

But Wayne’s got more on his mind than mere music. Show him the money!

“At the end of this year, I want to be able to say that I banked $50 million,” he said. “Not generated $50 million, but actually banked $50 million.”

Via NYDN