"Showtime", Lil' Wayne

[I'M ON ONE]

First official single off Tha Carter III

The curtain is just about ready to be raised on Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III LP. Weezy was in Miami on Monday with legendary photographer Jonathan Manion, shooting artwork for the album, and pretty soon he'll be going back in front of the camera to film the first video for the effort. The song is called "Showtime."

"The Carter III is coming in 2008. I don't want to give no months, no date," he said. "I got a gang of singles [on Carter III]. [It's] produced by my homeboy Diesel. He's also a Young Money affiliate. He's down with us. He's a producer/singer/engineer. He does it all. I have my artist featured on the song. Her name is Chanell. We already have a remix featuring Brisco and Lil' Boosie."

He added that for the "Showtime" video, "We're gonna get Gil Green or Benny [Boom] to direct. I really don't know. They're all my brothers. The concept is really 'Showtime,' just performance. Me and my artist Chanell gonna play a lot with the video. It's gonna be very animated but straight to the point. Colorful. Y'all [should be looking] to be entertained."

Wayne says he's recorded so many songs for the album besides "Showtime" that he's not sure which ones will make the cut.

[Q]

Hmm I wonder if this has leaked yet.

[I'M ON ONE]

I dont think it has... I hope it's hot.

All of the leaked songs thus far just sound like heaters, to me. Nothing really stands out, of the ones I've heard. Even Gossip sounds like a heater or just a diss track.

[Q]

Yeah, "Gossip" was an awful choice. He's always hit or miss, I don't see him being huge at all really though.

[I'M ON ONE]

I think we become too reliant on him always collaborating with other artists and producers, that when he releases a track by himself with generic production, it's underwhelming.

[Grenade]

I just hope this isn't an old track. He keeps renaming all of them. Even "I'm Me" is old. It used to be called "1000 Degrees" and was on one of his mixtapes from months ago.

I don't think his singles ever really had much success chart wise so I don't expect this to be a huge smash or anything. "Go DJ" was probably his biggest hit.

[Grenade]

...This is interesting. I guess everyone is going to be using vocoders now.

[breakthrough]

FLOP.

[tozion]

This is so bland and boring. Next.