

“Whenever I have to pitch in for a Young Money album, a Like Father, Like Son album and something like that and maybe something out of the blue, I will”, he explained, “but the way I’m working on this album, it’s to me, the way it seems like now, it seems like it’ll be impossible for me to work this hard again for anything else.” The initial recording sessions for Tha Carter V took place between 2013-14, during which time Wayne maintained that it would be his last solo album. “I know y’all want me around for a bit, and Carter V is my last album,” he said, “Man, I’ve been rappin’ since I was 8 years old. He told MTV that the sonic direction of the two albums would be similar, and that Tha Carter V would be his swan song.

In a 2012 interview with MTV News, Wayne announced that was going to release Tha Carter V shortly after I Am Not a Human Being II. A post shared by Lil Wayne on at 9:11am PDT
