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Recently (and thanks to a board member here who wrote the Bible... although God was more about floods than droughts) I've been able to check out some Carter 3 outtakes. And... as you guys know, there are a FUCKLOAD of them. ('Something You Forgot' is just... jesus christ.)
As far as I can tell, Wayne didn't sanction any of this, the way some artists allegedly leak their own music on purpose. Which almost makes it feel weird, listening to especially some of the more personal songs like the one above; for all I know he kept it off for a reason and didn't intend anyone to hear it. It's so good though, and god knows people have bootlegged artists to death before they finally open up the vaults.
My question though, basically is like, how do so many people apparently have access to Weezy's shit? I mean, this Empire dude managed to release, what, 6 (!!!) unauthorized mixtapes within like a year. The RateYourMusic site lists 169 Wayne bootlegs, and that's probably not even close to the real number of unofficial tapes.
Is there like a friend of Wayne's who puts on a fake moustache and goes online to leak shit? Then there's this other dude who's always like 'Weezy I told you to make the safe combination something other than 6969!!!'
It's a strange situation. There have been many heavily-bootlegged artists, but I'm not sure I can think of another one with the sheer amount of leaks this guy has. And of course, it's given us some great music that's up there with his official best. If/when he starts doing archival/official outtake releases... that's gonna be interesting.
As far as I can tell, Wayne didn't sanction any of this, the way some artists allegedly leak their own music on purpose. Which almost makes it feel weird, listening to especially some of the more personal songs like the one above; for all I know he kept it off for a reason and didn't intend anyone to hear it. It's so good though, and god knows people have bootlegged artists to death before they finally open up the vaults.
My question though, basically is like, how do so many people apparently have access to Weezy's shit? I mean, this Empire dude managed to release, what, 6 (!!!) unauthorized mixtapes within like a year. The RateYourMusic site lists 169 Wayne bootlegs, and that's probably not even close to the real number of unofficial tapes.
Is there like a friend of Wayne's who puts on a fake moustache and goes online to leak shit? Then there's this other dude who's always like 'Weezy I told you to make the safe combination something other than 6969!!!'
It's a strange situation. There have been many heavily-bootlegged artists, but I'm not sure I can think of another one with the sheer amount of leaks this guy has. And of course, it's given us some great music that's up there with his official best. If/when he starts doing archival/official outtake releases... that's gonna be interesting.
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