Since last night, when Amazon.compostedthe oddly enthralling image to the left, the hip-hop blogshavebeenablaze.

In sum,HUH?

First things first: Waynes label confirms that yes, this is the actual cover art forTha Carter III.

Lilwayne_l

He was just shouting out his inner mafioso-esque child!

Id assumed it was just another semi-coherent boast, but I see now that he was being mad literal.

Ladies and gents, we have now seen the face of the nursery-schooler who composedLollipop.

Okay, jokes aside (theyre just too easy!

), I actually kinda dig this cover.

Whyshouldnthe slap a patently ridiculous, self-important Photoshop job on the front of his new CD?

But what do you think of all this?