Similar to how he debuted a new Lil Wayne song that samples Alicia Keys last week, Mannie Fresh has also played the full version of the original “Start This Shit Off Right” on Instagram Live.

We have all heard this track featuring Mack Maine and Ashanti on Tha Carter V, but the original version actually features Fresh (who also produced it) on the hook, Christina Milian vocals, and different Weezy lyrics.

You can listen to Mannie Fresh play the original version of “Start This Shit Off Right” after the jump below. The CDQ version will appear on Mannie and Tunechi‘s upcoming Tha Carter/Fresh Files project, which currently has no release date!

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For the anniversaries of “Bling Bling” and Tha Block Is Hot, which both turn 20-years-old this year, Mannie Fresh chopped it up with XXL for an interview.

While discussing the classic single and classic album, Mannie revealed what advice he gave to Lil Wayne, explained the Fresh Files project will be full of songs which didn’t make Tha Carter V, and disclosed what we can expect from that project, and more.

“Shit, I got about two albums worth of songs on Wayne.”

You can check out everything that Fresh said after the jump below! Are you looking forward to hearing his and Wayne‘s upcoming album?

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Every song from Lil Wayne‘s latest album, Tha Carter V, except for the Intro message from Wayne‘s mother Jacida Carter called “I Love You Dwayne“, has debuted in the Billboard “Hot 100” chart.

This is an amazing achievement and it also means that Weezy has tied with his Young Money artist Drake for the most simultaneous “Hot 100” debuts in a single week with 22 each.

You can see where all 22 tracks from C5 have debuted on the Billboard chart after the jump below. Congratz to Tunechi!

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We first heard this interview earlier this month, and now we can watch Mannie Fresh‘s 1 hour-and-a-half conversation with Thedo and MAQ for their “DaTakeOver” podcast.

In the interview, Mannie discussed all about Lil Wayne, as well as the early Cash Money Records days, Turk being “messy”, Tha Carter V, Cash Money passing on Kanye West, how the real pop group Bee Gees stopped Weezy and B.G. from using their group name “B.G.’z”, who released an album called True Story in 1995, and more.

You can watch the full sit-down interview in a video after the jump below. Fresh also plays snippets of upcoming collaborations we can be looking out for from him and Tunechi including “Start This Shit Off Right” off Tha Carter V, an EDM song, and a “Big Ballin’” remix!

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Mannie Fresh recently took part in an interview with Thedo and MAQ for their “DaTakeOver” podcast and during their conversation, he previewed a collaboration he has with Lil Wayne off the upcoming Tha Carter V album.

We first heard a 15-second snippet back in 2014, and now Mannie has played the first 2 minutes and 30 seconds of the song, which you can check out after the jump below.

From listening to the hook, it sounds like this track is the one from the Tha Carter V tentative tracklist called “Start This Shit Off Right“. It also has Christina Milian listed as a feature and a couple of years ago, she did mention in an interview that she has a collabo with Weezy and Fresh on C5.

I’m aware Mannie Fresh also played a few other Tunechi snippets throughout his interview with the podcast, but I’m going to listen to the full 1 hour and 30 minute conversation when I’m free later on today before I post them, so I can get more details on the songs!

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