Tha Carter III

CTL-E-5948 · Work · album · 2008

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Combined Graph record U-07190 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5948.

Tha Carter III is the sixth studio album by Lil Wayne, released June 10, 2008, on Cash Money, Universal Motown, and Young Money. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 1,005,545 copies sold in its first week and reached 2.88 million copies by the end of 2008. Its singles — “Lollipop,” which held number one on the Hot 100 for five weeks, “A Milli,” “Got Money,” and “Mrs. Officer” — made Wayne the dominant popular musician of his moment; guests include Jay-Z, T-Pain, Kanye West, Babyface, and Robin Thicke, and “Lollipop” carries a credited posthumous appearance by Static Major, who died in February 2008. At the 2009 Grammy Awards the album was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Rap Album, while “Lollipop” won Best Rap Song and “A Milli” won Best Rap Solo Performance. Rolling Stone placed the album on its 500 Greatest Albums list.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 2 — 747 Program, Wave 9; second Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Tha Carter III entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5948 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — corpus scan tail tranche, ranks #751–#1400 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #758). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — the best-selling rap album of its era by a homed artist, with a published CTL Short; core scope. Vital status: n/a (Work). Artist Lil Wayne LIVING (homed, CTL-E-5678). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): First-week sales: 1,005,545 copies, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200; 2.88 million copies by the end of 2008 (Wikipedia). “Lollipop”: five weeks at number one on the Hot 100. CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: RIAA certification is given as 6x platinum in the Last.fm summary and 8x (octuple) platinum in the current Wikipedia account; both figures are carried with their sources and dates of access, and the record asserts neither as final. MEDIA: photo HELD (Tha Carter III album cover (Cash Money / Universal Motown, 2008) — rights-restricted commercial artwork, named as candidate only named as candidate; no file-page verification in this pass); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5948-tha-carter-iii.svg); video FILLED (CTL Short #179, matching-entity); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Non-place record; no map attaches at the entity layer.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = FILLED (CTL-owned @culturetechlens YouTube Short whose subject is this album (matching-entity rule); catalog row and U) | audio = HELD (No recording with a CTL rights basis was staged in this pass.)

Relationships

• Cash Money Records — released by
  Tha Carter III was released June 10, 2008, by Cash Money, Universal Motown and Young Money Entertainment. Closes the blocked edge documented in Scan Tail Wave 2.
• Lil Wayne — authored by
  Tha Carter III is Lil Wayne's sixth studio album (2008).

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Tha Carter III" (accessed 2026-10-16) — June 10, 2008 release, the labels, the number-one debut with 1,005,545 first-week copies, 2.88 million by end of 2008, the singles and guests, the Static Major credit, the 2009 Grammy results, and the octuple-platinum certification carried in the conflict below — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tha_Carter_III (primary source · build store)
• Last.fm, "Tha Carter III" wiki summary (accessed 2026-10-16) — secondary summary carrying the 6x platinum certification figure shown in the conflict below — https://www.last.fm/music/Lil%27+Wayne/Tha+Carter+III/+wiki (build store)
• CultureTechLens Shorts Link Map, Short #179, "Lil Wayne — Tha Carter III and the Generation After" (catalog checked 2026-10-16) — CTL's own published Short on this album, URL recorded: https://youtube.com/shorts/-yNzJgWQ4G8 (primary source · build store)

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