Lil Wayne had a chat with Billboard and says that Tha Carter V will finally see the light of day later this year. In Wayne’s cover story, the rapper opened up about the album being delayed repeatedly and it’s troubled path to being created.

“I’m very much a perfectionist . . . I don’t know what it’s setting me up for—some big comeback, or maybe some big fall back or whatever—but it’s setting me up for something, and I’m ready,” Says Wayne.

Tha Carter V will be the first album by Wayne that  will not have the Cash Money logo on it. However, Wayne’s Young Money distribution deal with Republic is still intact. Weezy is also the sole owner of Young Money as of recently.

During the rest of the interview, Wayne never mentioned the track list for the album, but he did talk about a specific song where he raps about the time when he attempted suicide at the age of 12. The song is untitled and features a Sampha sample on the outro.

“[Wayne] just told me one day that he was ready to address it now,” said Mack Maine, referring to the incident. When Wayne was 12, he shot himself in the chest with a gun he found at his mother’s house. Wayne previously started referring to that moment as just an accident.

“Just being an adult, reaching a level of maturity and comfort where it’s like, ‘I want to talk about this because I know a lot of people out here might be going through that.'”

Check out the full interview here.

WEEZY WISDOM

CHILDREN
”I got four beautiful jewels. As long as they’re smiling, I’m on cloud 39.”

TWEETING
”There came a time when it was like, ‘Let’s just go ahead and be me.’ I’m always appropriate. Sometimes appropriate may be crazy, but I’m always appropriate.”

FEATURES
“I don’t write. When you write something down, you know which thoughts to put on paper to keep you in the subject. You can send me a love song, and I may still find a way to bring [something else] up, ’cause it’s what I’m going through.”

GREATNESS
“I must be a hell of a motherfucker. In football, when a motherfucker hasn’t been playing one year, we expect him to be nothing. Thank God I’m in music, and they still expect me to be up there with no one touching me, other than my own [Young Money] artists.”

RETIREMENT
“I do think about retirement. I think about how I don’t think I ever will.”