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A Year of Lil Wayne: Here Comes Santa Claus

Gather round, children, for a special Christmas story about leaked songs.

Day 95: "Santa Clause (Hey Baby/Jump Off Remix)" – unreleased, 2007

It's the most wonderful time of the year, Christmas, which means that it's time for the worst type of music of the year, Christmas music. Lil Wayne is not a major practitioner of making Christmas music, but that doesn't mean he's never brushed up against the topic. As he once rapped on the "We Takin Over" remix, "every day Christmas, I'm eggnogged out." And last year he shared some great pictures of himself in a santa suit (speaking of pictures of Wayne in a santa suit, there's also a hilarious mixtape cover, courtesy of DJ Swift, that shows Wayne as ol' St. Nick himself, which you can see above).

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The Christmas season is about many things, but one of my personal favorite traditions is the small gift known as the stocking stuffer. In my case, Santa Claus always brings me a tube of toothpaste and an in-person reminder from my mother to brush my teeth. Anyway, for those of you who, like I do, love a good stocking stuffer on Christmas, let me share the Lil Wayne music equivalent of one, a spare verse that was on a remix that was never released and then eventually found its way out to the world via a leak. Charmingly, the only place I can find it on LiveMixtapes labels the song as "(Not On Drought 6 Or Dedication 3)," so you know it's rare.

The song is a verse from an unreleased remix to the forgotten Bow Wow and Omarion single "Hey Baby (Jump Off)," and it has since been branded as "Santa Claus" because there is a line in the verse that goes "She's such a naughty girl, and I'm her Santa Claus" (in keeping with yesterday's theme, the next line is "And I don't mean a magazine / when I say I ate her catalogue"). That's it, a rare Christmas verse for the real Wayne collectors out there. Enjoy it! Happy holidays!

Image: Close up of Merry Christmas mixtape by DJ Swift, via Audiomack

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