Lil Wayne's highly-anticipated album, Tha Carter V, could drop any second and rumors about who is featured on the album have the Internet going crazy.
One of the most anticipated possible features is said to come from the late XXXTentacion. According to OnSmash, the 20-year-old rapper, who was gunned down outside a motorsports store on June 18, will be featured on a Carter V track. While X was not listed on the album's rumored tracklist, which has been circulating online for the past few weeks, the site claims they received a heads up that the first official guest feature on the album is X.
News of Wayne and X's possible collab comes days after Wayne finally revealed the release date of his album, which has been over six years in the making, in a three-part Instagram video.
"Hey! What up people? Tunechi here. How y'all doin'? Message to the world, to my fans, to all my supporters," the "Love Me" rapper began the video. "I heard there was a misunderstanding about the release date of Tha CV. I heard y'all got a little mixed up and y'all thought it was being released like last week or somethin'," Wayne said, referencing the false rumor that spread earlier this month that claimed the album would drop on September 21.
"Well, I would like for you to know that since y'all stuck with me and hung in there any way for like the past four or five years through all of this —y'all got me feeling like Tiger Woods with this comeback — on my birthday, I actually have something special," he teased. "I will be releasing Tha Carter V on my birthday [September 27]."
Last week, Lil Peep and X's posthumous collaboration, "Falling Down," was released. The single, which was co-written by I Love Makonnen, dropped ten months after Peep's fatal overdose and three months after X's tragic murder.
While fans were initially skeptical of the track's authenticity — many wondered how coincidental it was that two now-deceased rappers made a song together before their deaths — Makonnen set the record straight about the song's organic creation.
"It came together from me and Lil Peep's session in London when we were working on our album there," Makonnen explained to XXL. "I guess like a month or so later he was playing it online, on Instagram Live or something. Then some fans had stripped a snippet and uploaded it to YouTube," he added. "And then X had heard the snippet on YouTube and he wanted to be a part of it and he recorded some parts to it. [X] ended up passing away, and his mom and his family were reaching out to Peep's management and everybody saying the song was something that [X] was very passionate about before he passed and he would really like to be a part of this and [asked] if we could make this happen."
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