I’m wondering how it is that I completely missed The Carter last year at Sundance? Not just the fact that I didn’t see it, but I hadn’t even heard of it until now. Either way, the official trailer has hit the net and I must say it looks pretty great. I know very little about Lil’ Wayne outside of a few songs and the fact that he can sort of play guitar, so it was definitely a pleasant surprise to see that he is famous for mixing cough syrup and alcohol! What a great combination of flavour profiles.

From what I’ve read, the film was met with some resistance from Lil’ Wayne after its Sundance premiere. Those issues have apparently been resolved (did Lil’ Wayne have director’s cut?) but director Adam Bhala Lough still seems to have captured a bit of a train wreck in his film. Having said that, I’m not one to immediately jump to conclusions of sensationalism or exploitation. Based off of this trailer — and whatever the blurbs throughout it are worth — there seems to be some potential here beyond the crazy stuff. I’m on board! The Carter is ‘about to drop’ on DVD November 17th, so head on over to their official website and go ahead and pre-order it.