Lil Wayne's 'The Carter' Documentary: The Story Behind the Iconic Doc | Complex

2008 was a wild year for Lil Wayne. As he traveled the world, he set up impromptu studio sessions in hotel rooms and tour buses wherever he went, relentlessly recording new music. And the tenacity paid off. By the time his sixth studio album Tha Carter III dropped in June, he’d become so popular that the project sold a mind-boggling one million copies in its first week despite leaking early.At 26 years old, Wayne was living a rockstar lifestyle as one of the biggest artists on the planet, making era-defining music that would ultimately shift the trajectory of rap. Historic moments like these are often undocumented, left to be retold through whispered schoolyard legends and exaggerated half-truths. But luckily for us, cameras were rolling on Lil Wayne all year. And in an even more rare stroke of luck, the man behind the camera was hell-bent on documenting everything in the most raw, authentic way possible.Filmmaker Adam Bhala Lough was tired of seeing overproduced music documentaries that wasted time on fluffy interviews with collaborators and music critics, rather than simply capturing the honest reality of the musician at the center of the film. Fortunately, Wayne agreed with his philosophy and wanted
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