Above, you can watch KarmaloopTV‘s interview with Stephen ‘Spliff’ Hacker, which I found very interesting. Stephen manages some of the hottest producers in the music industry today, including: STREETRUNNER and Drew Money. In the interview, Spliff speaks on working with YMCMB, how Lil Wayne got hold of the “I Got Some Money On Me” beat that Spliff says he recorded in a day for Tha Carter IV album, and more. He also says Wayne has recorded 6 new songs in the studio over his producers beats, but does not know which project they are for.

After the jump, you can view some photos of Tunechi performing in Johannesburg, South Africa at the Coca-Cola Dome just over a week ago with Young Money’s Drake, Shanell and Mack Maine.

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Lil Wayne‘s latest single off his Tha Carter IV album featuring Drake, “She Will“, has debuted at #3 on Billboard‘s Hot 100! This is Weezy‘s highest-ever opening rank on the chart, and it also marks Wayne‘s top 10 Hot 100 debut, pushing him past other male artists such as: Eminem and Kanye West. “She Will” is the fourth entry on the Hot 100 chart from Tune‘s C4 album too, as “6 Foot, 7 Foot” featuring Cory Gunz reached #9, “John” featuring Rick Ross reached #22, and “How To Love” reached #5.

Hit the jump to read who CMB are about to sign next to their label, and what Cortez Bryant (Wayne’s manager) and Birdman said to Rolling Stone on August 24h about how they have stopped Tunechi‘s Tha Carter IV album leaking so early like Tha Carter III did back in 2008.

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Lil Wayne is getting ready to start his own clothing line, which will be called Rebirth, the same title of his experimental 2010 album. Weezy told XXL Magazine in their July/August 2011 issue that is available on newsstands now, he wants to jump into the fashion business:

“I just figure that I… I’m funky,” he explained. “I got that from my stylist, Marisa. I’m funky, like she say. I wear a whole buncha items at one time, you know what I mean? I be figuring you at least want one of them items. Like, ‘Damn, I’d love to have that safety pin he got on,’ you know what I mean? Anything. I got on these types of shoes, these shorts, this sweater… A year from now, I want all these items to be mine. Rebirth. I want—I just figure people want to be funky like me, so I got my clothing line.”

Hit the jump to hear what Cortez Bryant recently told Billboard about Tunechi‘s Tha Carter IV album, hitting stores on August 29th!

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Some great news Young Moneyians/Wayniacs! Lil Wayne tells us in the video above that he is finished with Tha Carter IV and the official release date will be May 16th (not May 24th).

“Tha Carter IV is done,” Wayne told MTV News. “All they need to do is tell Tez (manager Cortez Bryant) to stop sitting on it. Tez, stop sitting on Tha Carter IV and put the album out.”

Bryant, Weezy’s longtime manager, was in attendance and provided the specific release date. “May 16, believe that,” Wayne said. “It can come out tomorrow ’cause I’m so finished … Tha Carter IV will be dropping May 16. If you’re not doing anything, do me,” he added. – MTV

After the jump, you can watch a video of Weezy thanking us the fans for his new tour and rating the opening show last night a 10 out of 10:

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I was going to wait until we got some more footage of Lil Wayne‘s interview with MTV‘s Sway before I posted this clip, but that could be on Friday now. So here is a 45 second clip of Weezy explaining why he didn’t shoot any music videos from the I Am Not A Human Being album, and went straight to shooting Tha Carter IV single.

“Thanks to the fans, it still went gold. That’s with one video or something like that and really no promotion,” he said. “‘Cause when I came home, first thing I was telling my manager Cortez Bryant, I was like, ‘Let’s capitalize, let’s shoot another video off of it.’ He was like, ‘You know, it might be a little too late right now.’ I was like, ‘I’m Wayne! It ain’t never too late.’”

“Then that’s when I recorded ’6 Foot 7 Foot,’ and he was like, ‘Let’s shoot a video to that,’ ” he recalled.

I’m gonna have to disagree with Tez, I do think Tune should of shot a visual to “Right Above It“, “That Ain’t Me“, or “Bill Gates” (which I thought DJ Scoob Doo was going to direct anyway). Do any of you agree with Wayne‘s manager to go straight into working on promoting C4

Oh, and don’t forget we will be getting the “6 Foot, 7 Foot” and “Welcome To My Hood” music videos tomorrow evening.