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Again? Young money Lil Wayne stepped to MTV.com on Saturday in advance of the taping of the "BET Hip-Hop Awards" to fill them in on his next LP, which will apparently bear the same title a few Milli of you out there already have stashed on your CD shelf.

Weezy F. tells MTV.com his next record will be an updated version of this spring's monstrous Tha Carter III with "all brand-new songs." He insists that it will not, in fact, take the form of Tha Carter IV, which Wayne recently mentioned working up on that ESPN blog of his. No release date was given for this new Carter III, and Wayne has laid some slightly shaky info on MTV.com in the past, so I wouldn't start lining up outside the record shop now or anything.

Recent B-day boy Wayne also reportedly told the crowd at the "BET Awards" that he's "got a son about to be born any day now, so shout-out to him. Pray for me." Aw, a really Lil Wayne! I wonder if those tattoos are genetic...

A Billboard.com story today citing the MTV.com report also notes that Wayne is collaborating with T-Pain under the banner T-Wayne (clever!) on a duet album(!) due sometime next year. Meanwhile, Wayne's ESPN blog suggests that Dedication 3 mixtape should be turning up "real soon." We'll believe it when we hear it, Wayne.

Wayne's doing a few shows through the next several weeks, and the "BET Awards" air Thursday, October 23.

Wayne:

10-23 Nashville, TN - Vanderbilt University Memorial Coliseum #
10-26 Rochester, NY - Blue Cross Arena
10-27 Boston, MA - TD Banknorth Garden *$
10-28 East Rutherford, NJ - IZOD Center *
10-31 Raleigh, NC - RBC Center ^
11-01 Atlantic City, NJ - Boardwalk Hall

# with Lupe Fiasco
* with Jay-Z
$ with Ne-Yo
^ with Birdman, Cupid