The Carter Files discussion thread.

[Shake]

I'm about to listen for the first time this week and was wondering are all of these songs cuts from the original Carter or were some also cuts from Tha Carter 2?

I'll be updating this thread with some of my favorite songs. What were some of yours?

Are you doing a podcast on it?

[back on my bullish*t]

the carter files > da drought
imo

[neomerge]

Are you doing a podcast on it?

You already know. I'm using the lil Wayne mixtape page of lilwaynehq for the guidebook for the order we will cover mixtapes in but we will also be covering some unofficial tapes like the drought is over and the leak series so there will be some slight deviation.

[martian master]

You already know. I'm using the lil Wayne mixtape page of lilwaynehq for the guidebook for the order we will cover mixtapes in but we will also be covering some unofficial tapes like the drought is over and the leak series so there will be some slight deviation.

When you get to Blow make sure to mention its not official please
Too many people think it is

6 years later but I did some more research into this.

So the first time we heard Wayne reference "I Can't Feel My Face" was on the W. Carter Collection Vol. 2 mixtape with DJ Mick Boogie that was released in early May of 2006. We know this tape is official because Lil Wayne says so on the intro of the tape. Furthermore, on track 13, "Interlude", Wayne says "I Can't Feel My Face featuring Juelz Santana mixtape out right now". Now, Blow was not released until August 2006 so it couldn't of been Blow he was referencing. Before Blow, a mixtape titled "I Can't Feel My Face - Advance" was circulating on the internet and featured all the exclusive songs off of Blow - but unmixed and raw. I still have a copy of it but to this day still can't figure out exactly when it was released, but considering what Wayne says on W. Carter Collection Vol. 2, it must of been around May 2006.

Fast forward to August and the Blow mixtape came out. On the official MixUnit posting for Blow in 2006 (MixUnit was the authority of mixtapes back in the day - they're still active today) it says "Mick Boogie hooks up this tasty with two of the hottest names in the game, Lil' Wayne and Juelz Santana, and brings the official I Can't Feel My Face prequel mixtape."
, which makes it sound official. This post was made August 22nd, 2006.

Also in 2006, Wayne and Juelz would go on tour with Ne-Yo and Chris Brown. I found the article @Leaff quoted in the first post of this thread and in it Juelz says "We was doing a mixtape at first, but it got leaked on the Internet, so we decided to say “F**k it”, ya dig? N***as want the album, so we gonna officially put it out. We still haven’t officially put out our version of the mixtape either. It’s still just a leaked version of the mixtape so we gonna do our version. We got it getting mixed down right now, so we gonna put out the mixtape with all our drops letting the people know we gonna do the album. It’s probably gonna be a Gangsta Grillz or DJ Khaled, something like that. It may even be Green Lantern, we don’t wanna leave anybody out so everybody gonna be involved at the same time because Green Lantern did the “Rubber Burnin’” beat. Drama and them n***as do beats, so we gonna include everybody in everything. It’s official like a ref with a whistle.". Earlier in the article it says "After getting everyone to whistle along to his infectious runaway single, Juelz got a coveted spot performing next to artists such as Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, and Ne-Yo on the Up Close and Personal Tour. It was in the luxury of the Lakeshore W that Juelz hid himself from the brisk Chicago air the day after the all-star lineup performed for the city, reminiscing about how he got to where he is today and shedding some light on what the future may hold.". I found the dates for the tour and they came to Chicago Sept 17, 2006 - so this interview was done Sept 18, 2006. This is where it gets weird. "Blow", a mixtape assumed to be official, came out almost a month before that, and Juelz is saying that there's no official "Can't Feel My Face" tape.

Then in December 2006, Lil Wayne and Raj Smoove released "The Carter Files" mixtape, that we know is official, due to Wayne saying it on the intro. On track 8, "Carter Talk Part 3", Wayne says "You got I Can't Feel My Face mixtape out right now, and then you got the official "I Can't Feel My Face" mixtape coming out later on.". Earlier on in the same interlude Wayne says to go buy Like Father, Like Son, indicating the album was out at this point - so this must have been recorded after October 2006 - 2 months after Blow, the "official" "Can't Feel My Face" mixtape came out.

Also, in early 2007, Wayne was featured on the "Street Talks DVD Volume 13". In an interview on that, Wayne said that "I Can't Feel My Face" was going to be a mixtape, but it leaked before they could put it out officially, so they decided to make it an album - again no reference to Blow.

In addition, the "Weezy Speaks" interlude on "Blow" is a mash up of various interludes Wayne did with Mick Boogie on their official tape "The W. Carter Collection Vol. 2". If you listen to the skits on that tape you can tell the one on "Blow" was spliced together from those. Juelz's skit is from a tape Mick did based around Jim Jones in 2005.

So at this point, I'm not sure tbh. There was a mixtape before Blow with leaks, and I assumed originally they compiled the leaks officially for Blow - but Juelz and Wayne don't seem to know Blow came out. I reached out to DJ Mick Boogie hope he hits me back.
@Leaff @hawth33 @Caesar @Danny M what you guys think

SOURCES:
ICFMF Advance: felipe: juelz Santana's Discography
MixUnit Post About Blow: https://web.archive.org/web/20061022...oogieblow.html
Juelz Interview About ICFMF: https://allhiphop.com/features/juelz...EuVQA8oCU7uwA/
Wayne & Juelz 2006 Tour Dates: Ne-Yo to Co-Headline 28-City "Up Close & Personal Tour" with Chris Brown
Wayne Interview About ICFMF Leak:https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=cZy03jjijUY
Wayne Tape His Interlude is Spliced From: https://www.datpiff.com/Lil-Wayne-Th...xtape.696.html
Juelz Tape His Interlude is Spliced From: https://music.apple.com/us/album/the...nual/560158288

[lilwayne-carter]

wait didn't 'blow' have new music and official drops from wayne? [MENTION=62570]martian master[/MENTION]

[martian master]

wait didn't 'blow' have new music and official drops from wayne? @martian master

no

The 1 "drop" is spliced up from drops from w. carter 2, and juelz drop is from a old jim jones/mick boogie tape
and the songs on ICFMF all leaked before hand



this tape leaked early 06 with all the juelz/wayne collabs on blow

read the quote it covers all of this

[neomerge]

Thanks for your research on the Wayne and Juelz tape. Seeing the blow mixtape on the site made me think it was official. We definitely wanted to cover the I can't feel my face era but I wasn't sure of how to do so since even that blow tape left so many great tracks off of it. We might just cover the 2020 bootleg I made with my favorite tracks and no blends and mention all the various unofficial I can't feel my face tapes that dropped over the years.

[WeezyFan]

When you get to Blow make sure to mention its not official please
Too many people think it is

u got the tracklist for the i cant feel my face advance tape?

[martian master]

u got the tracklist for the i cant feel my face advance tape?

its listed here https://sangrepato-sesos.blogspot.co...scography.html

01 04:22 Intro
02 03:51 Rubber Burnin'
03 04:24 Hot sh*t
04 03:29 I Can't Feel My Face (Juelz Solo) - A version of this with Wayne on it leaked after
05 04:43 Rewind
06 03:05 Get That Bread - a full version of this with Jay bezel leaked after
07 04:55 More Hot sh*t (Feat_ Currensy and Bezel)
08 02:24 Real Hd (Juelz Solo)
09 02:54 Birds Flyin' High
10 03:28 Bonifide Hustla
11 04:30 Hood sh*t
12 02:07 How (Juelz Solo)

[YMCMB357]

[MENTION=66272]Danny[/MENTION]m you need to remove from the blog

[WeEeEeEzZzZyYy]

its gonna be awkward when wayne and mannie drop their project which is called the same name lol

[jhoya101]

I did not know she feelin me was c1 era Wayne. Thought that was c2