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Above, Lil Wayne tells MTV that his Tha Carter IV album is “totally done” and will be released on August 29th (not August 22nd). Tunechi also confirms that his Sorry For The Wait mixtape will be dropping on July 12th or the 13th. He then goes onto to discuss his “How To Love” single:

“That song is just sweeping the world. It’s touching every woman, that’s what it was for,” Wayne said. “It was like Tupac had ‘Keep Ya Head Up’ and it was a message to women and little girls across the world just to keep your head up even though things are hard. That’s what my song was.”

‘Pac’s 1993 song became one of his biggest hits. On it, Shakur rapped about the plight of single mothers and battered women. For “How to Love,” Weezy also lends a sympathetic ear. “A lot of women don’t know how to love because there’s deep reasons for them not knowing how to love,” he explained. “And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons. A lot of people don’t open up that can and I figured that I can open up that can of worms and see what happens.”

 

Lil Wayne’s favorite new producer speaks to XXL about the criticism “How to Love” received, being the next Quincy Jones and joining the Young Money/Cash Money team…

As seen on XXLMAG :

Noel “Detail” Fisher has been buzzing in the industry since Lil Wayne’s “How to Love”— a track he produced— skyrocketed up the charts back in May, but by no means is he a new kid on the block. The Detroit producer first got a taste of notoriety when he produced the bulk of Ray J’s independent debut, Raydiation in 2005. Since then, he’s crafted tracks for Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Mya, more Ray J, Akon, New Boyz and Wiz Khalifa, just to name a few. Detail has consistently accumulated placements in the past six calendars, but with tracks on upcoming projects from T-Pain, Diggy Simmons and Julio Iglesias coming up, he’s looking to make 2011 his breakout year. Word is he’s been hard at work in the studio with Weezy and is poised to land several tracks on Tha Carter IV. XXLMag.com caught up with the confident boardsman to discuss “How to Love’s” mixed reviews, self-comparisons to Quincy Jones and joining the Young Money/Cash Money family.—Carl Chery

XXLMag.com: How did you link up with Wayne?

Detail: I did “So Paid” for Akon. Wayne was on it. [Young] Jeezy was on it. [I] caught Jeezy at the mall three days before the shoot and told him to hop on the record. Then we did the video in Miami, so that’s when I first met Wayne. When I started to build my relationship with him I did a mixtape song called “Tattoo Girl” and Wayne showed me love and jumped on it. From there we just started to build. Obviously the song was a little pop/rock so it gave us that outlet. He did the Rebirth album and we kind of was on the same page.

I’m hearing that you have several songs onTha Carter IV. How did that happen?

Obviously, Lil Wayne works and he doesn’t stop workin’, so I’m on the same page too. Mack Maine has been a key player of just keepin’ me involved with the process, so we’ve done a whole bunch of records. It’s more of a situation where whatever Wayne wants he just uses so obviously there’s a couple in there that he’s definitely fuckin’ with, so we just keep recordin’. We still recordin’. We about to record tonight. I’m fourth quarterin’ them. I came through last night with another monster, so we gonna cut that tonight.

It sounds like you’ve actually been able to be in the studio with Wayne instead of sending him tracks. Is that correct?

Oh, 100 percent, man. [I've been in] direct studio sessions, the whole nine. I’ve pretty much been with Wayne since he been out [of jail] from L.A. to Miami. I hopped on the tour for a quick second, but pretty much outside of the tour I’ve been in the studio with him.

What is being in the studio with Lil Wayne like?

He a beast, man. The [Sorry 4 the Wait] mixtape is incredible. The album is amazin’ and you know Wayne is an extremely creative person. Every time I think there is no more words, just no more metaphors that you could use in the world he comes up with he just keeps coming up with ‘em.

“How To Love” obviously peaked at no. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, but the reviews out there are kind of mixed. What are your thoughts on the response so far?

My thoughts is…I’m lookin’ at the top [of the] charts on iTunes and it’s still there. If you look at the charts on iTunes you’re connected to an unbiased world that’s likin’ music and buyin’ music, so obviously in that territory no different from “Super Bass” or “Moment for Life” anybody would say about Nicki or Drake or anybody. It’s like they’re so versatile artists that when those points come then it’s the people’s choice. For me I’d rather be the people’s choice then to stick to a certain curriculum, so I feel like it’s somethin’ that we just felt strong about doin’. I just wanted to listen to the song in my car and enjoy it by myself, so the world is actually experiencin’ somethin’ that was hidden. It was really for us. We embraced the song and it’s a great feelin’ when the world connects to what you embrace ’cause sometimes you gotta do songs for certain reasons. There’s no reason. The reason is it’s just how we felt and it’s a very organic, genuine record.