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Why Can’t Lil Wayne Beat the Leaks?
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By Monica Herrera | The Rolling Stone Blog – Fri, Aug 26, 2011 9:39 AM EDT
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Superstar albums and early leaks go hand in hand, as Lil Wayne knows too well. In 2007, songs from the rap titan's sixth LP, Tha Carter III, leaked months in advance, forcing him to retool the set for a 2008 release. Online habits haven't changed since, but when Wayne's manager, Cortez Bryant, spoke to Rolling Stone on August 24th, he had high hopes that Wayne's new album, Tha Carter IV, would break the streak.

"I think we're lucky this time." Bryant said of Wayne's ninth album, which was officially set to premiere on iTunes at midnight on August 29th after his closing performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, and everywhere else that same day. "We held it until the last moment we could, and we didn't send any songs or beats by e-mail - we used iChat, or a person had to get on a plane to share music...I'm knocking on wood before I get off the phone with you and it's all over the Internet."

Hours later, Tha Carter IV leaked. As fans sucked up bandwidth to download it, others wondered
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Big Boi: Andre 3000 Cameo ‘Very Much Possible’ on Next Album
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By Monica Herrera | The Rolling Stone Blog – Fri, Jul 22, 2011 2:09 PM EDT
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While plans for a new Outkast album are still unknown, Big Boi tells Rolling Stone that a collaboration between him and the group's other half, André 3000, could very well happen on his next solo album, Daddy Fat Sax.

"I think it's very much possible because we have L.A. Reid in our corner now, and he was the first to sign Outkast," Big Boi said, referring to the record executive's recent jump from chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group to Epic Records. If all goes well, that move should undo the label roadblocks (Big Boi has a solo deal with Def Jam, while Outkast is signed to Jive) that kept the pair's "Lookin' for Ya" collaboration off of Big Boi's 2010 solo debut, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty.

"L.A. has permission to make it happen now," Big Boi said of the potential mini-reunion. "So I hope it does, and I don't really see why it won't."

The Atlanta MC, who recently confirmed to Junior Online that he has finished 17 songs on Fat Sax - which he hopes to release
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T-Pain Recruits Ke$ha and Pharrell for New Album
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By Monica Herrera | The Rolling Stone Blog – Thu, Jul 21, 2011 7:51 AM EDT
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Although T-Pain recently proclaimed himself to be "done with Auto-Tune," don't expect his cyborgian croon to disappear from his next album, rEVOLVEr.

"It's still there," the R&B showman tells Rolling Stone of his signature pitch-correction, which he's now using under his own trademarked tool, "The T-Pain Effect." Released this week, the computer program is a serious upgrade from his popular "I Am T-Pain" app, which lets users record their own digitally altered voice singing hits like "Buy You a Drank" and is in the top five paid music apps for the iPhone. "It's basically everything T-Pain uses in the studio, from vocal changes to reverb chords and compressers," he explains. "It's only 100 bucks, so this is for everybody. And I'm using it on my whole album, so that proves it works for professionals."

Slated for an October release, rEVOLVEr will also mark the first time that T-Pain works with outside producers - "I'm having a hard time adjusting to it," he concedes - including the
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