Apparently the legal wrath of Cash Money Records parent company Universal Music Group isn’t too much of a concern for South Carolina mixtape DJ Chuck T, who said that he was responsible for this weekend’s leak of Lil Wayne’s The Carter III as revenge for DJ-disparaging comments Weezy made to the mixtape-centric magazine Foundation. (When the mag asked him about the first mixtape DJ he enjoyed listening to, Lil Wayne replied “I don’t remember the mixtape deejay–tell this dude who he talking to. I’m not into all that shit. I don’t know no mixtape deejay. I am the originator.”) Carter’s release date is next Tuesday, so the likelihood of Chuck T being the sole source of the leak is, to put it mildly, a little low. But that didn’t stop him from sending an e-mail blast inviting his fans to drink from Wayne’s 192kbps milkshake.
“Lil Wayne said ‘fuck mixtape DJ’s’…so now i’m about to show that boy the meaning of bootleg…I’ll be damned if I let [anyone] get away with saying fuck me without him facing some type of repercussions, including [him].”
He’s also taken to his MySpace page:
I would have figured that he’d have at least put “The Carter III” somewhere on there, given that it was such a popular search term this weekend. How can you properly engage in a publicity stunt in 2008 without the right search-engine optimization tactics?
DJ Chuck T Claims Responsibility For Carter III Leak [HipHopDX]
The album is heat, aside from that corny Babyface track. It’s nice to see a major rap record that’s not micro-managed, nor afraid to be completely fucking weird. Plus, when was the last time an album had this many guest stars, all of whom brought their A-game?