‘The Carter’ still doesn’t sit well with Mr. Carter

I got a chance to see ‘The Carter’ at Sundance and was pretty pleased with the film overall. A few days later I found out that it got pulled for some mysterious reason and wasnt being shown anymore. Apparently Lil Wayne was not happy with the 2nd cut of the film because it showed all of his gratituous drug/”cough syrup” use. From the details we have heard the first cut of the film was even worse.

Lil Wayne filed a lawsuit to stop the distribution of the film, but the judge denied it. We get this from AllHipHop.com:

A state court has refused to block the upcoming release of a new controversial documentary on Lil Wayne named The Carter.

Lil Wayne filed a lawsuit against QD3 Entertainment, claiming the company reneged on a deal that would have allowed him to have approval over the films final cut. The rapper reportedly took issue with certain scenes displaying his drug use in the documentary, which follows him all over the country and to Amsterdam.

According to the lawsuit, Lil Wayne’s manager reviewed The Carter in December and requested that the scenes in question be removed. A second cut also failed to live to his manager’s expectations in January and the scenes in question were still in the film when it premiered during the Sundance Film Festival a few weeks later, prompting the lawsuit.

Well, I can definitely see how he would be up in arms about how his addiction problems come across in the film, I would LOVE to see the first cut of it though. Check out my review of the film from Sundance here.