As the hype builds towards the release of Lil Wayne's The Carter III, the album cover leaked online today. Amazon.com has posted this image...

...as the cover for Weezy's highly anticipated album dropping in May. There has been much speculation that this is not the actual artwork for the release. Not to mention that photographer, Jonathon Mannion, told HipHopDX a completely different story about what the album cover's concept would be [click to read].  Wayne's label, Universal, has not commented as of yet.