"I'm trying to drop my album at like the end of the year," said Wayne, whose latest guest spots include work for Beyoncé, DJ Khaled, DJ Drama and Mya. "I'm a bouncing-around artist, on everybody's track, whatever the style is, I'm on it. I'm being there for them now, and I'mma do me at the end of the year. So next year will be my whole year. But this year, I want to devote to those people, do their videos, come out, do shows with them. These songs are their singles, so if I'm not available, why even make it a single?"

Whenever Tha Carter, Vol. 3 does drop, Weezy says you can expect a major contribution from Kanye West. Wayne just signed on to the management company Hip-Hop Since 1978, which also handles 'Ye's career, and there's even a chance the Chi-Town music man could executive produce the project.

"I can't clarify it because it's still in the air," Wayne said of Kanye's possible role on the album. "But I can say it's way more than [producing] two songs. But you never know. The new move is definitely a blessing. A new opportunity. Of course I'm gonna use it as much as I can."

Two other producers that might make it onto Carter 3 are Just Blaze ("We have a crazy idea," Wayne said of his collaboration with the hitmaker) and former Cash Money Records in-house producer Mannie Fresh. Fresh recently signed a label deal with Def Jam, and it looks like he'll be resurfacing big time soon. "That's a good move for Mannie," Wayne said. "That means the door is open, that me and Mannie could get back to do what we do."

"Me and dude been speaking," Fresh exclusively told MTV News about being open to working with Wayne again. (It would be a first since the producer departed Cash Money records a couple of years ago.) "We been talking about it. I told him what my restrictions are. I said, 'As long as it's you, I'm fine with it. I don't have no problems with it. As long as it's paid for and all the paperwork is done, I'm cool with it.' Because just as much as I'm a part of [Wayne], he's a part of me. I don't see nothing wrong with it. I had bad business with one person in that equation, Baby. That shouldn't stop me and Wayne from doing something."

That other Wayne album everybody is waiting on seems like it's awhile off as well. Of course we're talking about the duet LP with Juelz Santana, Can't Feel My Face. The project was originally just going to be a mixtape, then they decided to make it an album, but they haven't gotten a big enough offer from a record label yet. Now, while they wait on that proper number, it looks like they'll give the streets something to tide fans over.

"Juelz just called me and said, 'Since we waiting for somebody to come to the table with the right money, we have so much material, we should drop a mixtape,' " Wayne said. "So that's what we gonna do, drop a mixtape first. Then probably try to get some big names to do some beats and the album will drop. The mixtape will come by the end of the month. The album, we have to schedule it right. See what a company wants to do. Our plan was to do the whole album ourselves like some starving artists and present it to a company."

This Report is from MTV News

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