
Lil Wayne will celebrate his 36th birthday on September 27. I will be releasing Tha Carter V on my birthday.” “Well, I would like for you to know that since y’all stuck with me and hung in there anyway for like the past four or five years through all of this, on my birthday, I actually have something special. I heard y’all got mixed up and thought it was gonna get release like last week or something. In a video posted to his Instagram, he said: “I heard there was a misunderstanding about the release date of the C 5. Lil Wayne has announced the release date for his latest album (Ian West/PA) The lawsuit was settled earlier this year and now Wayne has said the album will arrive on Thursday. The rapper had sued for 51 million US dollars (£38.7 million) in 2015, alleging the label had withheld payments. Titled Tha Carter V, it was originally scheduled to arrive in 2013 and comes after a long-running dispute with the Cash Money Records label. Lil Wayne has revealed his hotly anticipated upcoming album will be released this week following several delays and a legal battle.

Lil Wayne founded record label Young Money Entertainment and released a collaborative album featuring rappers signed to the label, We Are Young Money, in 2009, followed by his debut rock music album Rebirth in 2010. Certified triple platinum by the RIAA, Tha Carter III won the Best Rap Album award at the 2009 Grammy Awards.

In 2008, Wayne released his best-selling album so far, titled Tha Carter III. In 2006, Wayne released a collaborative album with rapper Birdman, titled Like Father, Like Son. In 2004, he released the first of his infamous Carter series, with Tha Carter. His later albums, Lights Out released in 2000, and 500 Degreez, released in 2002, attracted minor attention. Wayne made his album debut in 1999, with Tha Block Is Hot, which was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. American rapper Lil Wayne has released thirteen studio albums, one collaborative album, three compilation albums, five extended plays, and twenty-nine mixtapes.
