Baby Says Lil Wayne's Born Again On "Carter IV" LP, "He Can Still Rap His A** Off But..."

Cash Money Records' Baby has decided to hype fans' anticipation for Lil Wayne's upcoming Tha Carter IV album by promising a newly energized Weezy sound on the long-awaited LP.

Birdman credits Wayne's eight-month gun conviction jail bid for fueling the new album.

"He sounds brand new to me," Birdman tells Billboard.com. "There's a new energy... just a different energy. He can still rap his a** off, but he took his raps to another level. To me, he went back to that traditional raw Cash Money music, just raw beats, 808s popping off and Wayne rapping, hard. It really sounds great to me...He got to sleep for eight months -- and I think the rest gave him another energy, and he's pouring it all out through his music." (Billboard)

Last month, Wayne warned about his upcoming Tha Carter IV record, "Wayne's World."

Lil Wayne is so confident in his rapping abilities that he claims other rappers will want to hang up the mic after hearing one of his rhyme-heavy records on Tha Carter IV. The Young Money MC invited Rolling Stone to preview "Wayne's World," one of the songs expected to make his highly-anticipated album. "There's a lot of rapping on this," shared Weezy. "I want other rappers to hear it and say, 'I quit. I better start making club songs.'" The magazine goes on to describe the track as "three machine-gunning minutes of adenoidal wordplay topped with a triumphant hook." (Rolling Stone)