Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter V—the once-revolutionary rapper’s long-delayed 12th studio album—has become one of those works of art, like The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, Detox, Chinese Democracy, Duke Nukem Forever, etc., where the project’s non-existence has cast a longer shadow than its actual reality likely ever could. Wayne has been promising the album—supposedly his last solo effort—since 2012, a passage of time that has encompassed prison time, battles with labels, health issues, and a whole host of imitators, some brazen enough to just straight-up steal on the on-hiatus album’s name.