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February 12, 2009
That Elk Is Such A Dick: Michael Robbins Reads "Alien Vs. Predator"
Nice! SOTC poet buddy and undying Lil Wayne fan Michael Robbins stops by the Sound of Young America to read "Alien Vs. Predator." Listen as he leans in on the phrase That elk is such a dick--always how we heard it in our head, for the record. [Fluxtumblr]
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April 13, 2009
On Fall Out Boy's Lil Wayne-Featuring "America's Suitehearts" Remix
You may have thought, when you saw Fall Out Boy's Lil Wayne-featuring "American Suitehearts" remix floating around the internet, something like: Lil Wayne will be rapping. Maybe you thought: That rap-rock track from Timbaland's last solo record, also featuring Fall Out Boy, was totally abysmal. Bu ... More >>
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April 21, 2009
Lil Wayne Gives Haters a Facelift
RJ Shaughnessy Tiny mini-trend #4351: Rappers getting all worked up and cold-eyed over menacing, tightly looped guitar riffs. See yesterday's Clipse/Kanye feature "Kinda Like a Big Deal," the spell of which isn't at all wearing off 24 hours later, and Lil Wayne's leak-of-the-day, "Facelift" "Spit," ... More >>
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May 15, 2009
That's Still Not Madonna On Lil Wayne's "Revolver"
At least, not according to Pigeons and Planes, who let the song go in the first place. Still, the thought of this collaboration really brings out the creativity on the rap blogs, huh? New! Madonna Ft. Lil' Wayne - "Revolver" [Pigeons and Planes] Madonna - Revolver f. Lil Wayne [2DopeBoyz]
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June 24, 2009
News Roundup: Beastie Boys, The Roots, Jay Bennett, Lil Wayne
--After proving they-still-got-it at Bonnaroo less than two weeks ago, the Beastie Boys announced details about their new disc, Hot Sauce Committee Part 1. The album is due September 15, and its seventeen tracks include the Nas collaboration "Too Many Rappers" (which they performed together at the f ... More >>
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October 22, 2009
Lil Wayne Pleads Guilty, Expected to Serve 1 Year in Prison
Some people were wondering if rapper Lil Wayne would attempt to block DNA evidence in his weapons possession trial. The point is moot now as Lil Wayne has pleaded out and is expected to be sent to prison for a year. He copped to the remaining charge, second-degree attempted weapon possession, ... More >>
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November 2, 2009
Download Lil Wayne's No Ceilings Mixtape
Here is the free, full, sanctioned version of Lil Wayne's leftfield tour de force mixtape, No Ceilings. All sorts of bonkers gems on this one--typically wild similes ("I smoke mad weed/I'm on my high horse," ha), a lot of plain old joy and exultation, an "I Gotta Feeling" (!) cover, and some ... More >>
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November 10, 2009
Lil Wayne's Sizzurp-Guzzler Blues
The Dwayne Carter documentary has arrived, to his dismay, or at least his lawyers'
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November 11, 2009
This Week's Voice: R.A. the Rugged Man, Lil Wayne's The Carter Documentary, Zadie Smith, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Urs Fischer, and More
R.A. the Rugged Man: More dirty laundry than you can imagine. Photo by Calvin Godfrey.In this week's Village Voice, Ben Westhoff recounts the long, setback- and STD-ridden journey of Long Island's own R.A. the Rugged Man, Jed Lipinski talks to the players involved with the semi-embargoed Lil ... More >>
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November 11, 2009
The Long and Tormented Genesis of the Lil Wayne Documentary The Carter
In this week's Voice, Jed Lipinski tells the long and involved story behind the making, and then spiking, of The Carter, thirty-year-old director Adam Bhala Lough's verite documentary depicting Lil Wayne's 2008 U.S. and European tour. The DVD finally comes out next week, with a disclaimer calling ... More >>
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November 17, 2009
Daly: How Come This Guy Walked on Gun Possession, and Burress and Lil Wayne Didn't?
In today's Daily News, Michael Daly notices that Shabia Johnakin, a "20-year-old Brooklyn high school dropout," got mere probation for gun possession, though he was trying to use his weapon (it jammed) in the company of men who were shooting at police. The clemency was in part due to Johnaki ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
The Long, Slow Death of Lil Wayne's Rebirth
Dwayne Carter proves rappers can make lousy rock albums, too
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February 9, 2010
Lil Wayne Is Probably Going to Rikers Island Today
Today Lil Wayne will finally enter a plea in a Manhattan courtroom stemming from a 2007 gun charge he caught in New York City. He's expected to start serving time at Rikers Island right away--"I just say I'm looking forward to it," the rapper told Rolling Stone. Maybe. Billboard quotes City D ... More >>
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February 9, 2010
Lil Wayne Saved By Bad Teeth
"Rap star Lil Wayne has gotten a temporary reprieve from jail," reports the Associated Press: "for dental surgery." His lawyer apparently told the judge that Wayne needed to finish a string of procedures on/in his mouth prior to heading to Rikers. The rapper's new date with destiny is March ... More >>
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February 11, 2010
So Was Lil Wayne's Rebirth a Modest Success Or a Total Commercial Failure? Maura Johnston Reads the Charts
"Billboard's 'Tastemakers' chart is the one we should all paying attention to, don't you think?"This week's Billboard 200 is headed once again by Lady Antebellum, the milquetoast country trio whose second album Need You Now moved 481,000 copies in its debut week, and 209,000 copies in the sal ... More >>
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February 19, 2010
The Blessing and the Curse of Lil Wayne's Candy Addiction: Jail Postponement, Eight Root Canals
Let no one say that the judge who postponed Lil Wayne's prison stay in order for the rapper to get dental work was going easy on the man--TMZ reports Wayne endured an eight-hour procedure on Tuesday that involved eight root canals, significant tooth implant repair, and some much needed grill ... More >>
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March 2, 2010
Lil Wayne Goes to Jail Today, But At Least We Have This Young Money "Roger That" Video to Remember Him By
Here is the first of a reported nine videos Lil Wayne shot in front of various green screens before reporting to Rikers today. This time, they opted for a comic strip treatment--fitting for not just Wayne but Nicki Minaj, who is basically a walking comic book character anyway. A Rikers guard fille ... More >>
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March 2, 2010
Rikers Island Superstar Lil' Wayne's Pre-Slammer Scrapbook
The New York Department of Correction's most exciting inmate since crooked cop boss Bernie Kerik is on his way to jail. Again. Most of us can take a wild guess as to what that's like for all the Regular Inmates of the world: shitty. Want to know what that's like if you're an uberfamous super ... More >>
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March 10, 2010
Robert Christgau On Lil Wayne: "If I've Ever Been This High, Which I Doubt, It Was 40 Years Ago"
Here's Bob on Weezy, at length, of course, and absolutely worth the read, also of course. Two Rap Radar commenter quotes in the first paragraph! Extremely involved lyrical analysis! Stuff like this! Based on a stripper-ready DJ Unk track (I Googled that), it ends each of the 22 lines of its ... More >>
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March 12, 2010
You Will Have to Wait Until Lil Wayne Gets Out of Jail to Get His Autograph
Though it may have been a decent way to for Wayne to while away the days in prison, and though the mind boggles at the prison economy that could've sprung up around Lil Wayne signatures (that's worth like a box of cigarettes at least, right?), alas, it is not to be. TMZ reports that Wayne has ... More >>
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March 23, 2010
Luther Campbell Weighs In On Lil Wayne, T.I., And Other Gun-Toting Hip-Hop Stars: "People Have To Understand The Rappers' Workplace"
Did you know the 2 Live Crew boss is now a columnist for our compatriots at New Times down in Miami? It's true, and after a few warm-up pieces ("Fire Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra"), Luther Campbell today addresses why Lil Wayne and T.I. risked their careers over firearms. Short version: Try goin ... More >>
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May 11, 2010
Breaking: Lil Wayne Caught With Unauthorized Electronics in His Jail Cell [Updated]
Corrections sources are telling the Voice that rapper Lil Wayne was caught today at Rikers in possession of "unauthorized earphones and a charger" during a search. An investigation is underway to find the missing device (almost certainly an iPod or other kind of MP3 player) that goes with the ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
Gucci Mane Is A Free Man
Even as fellow famous incarcerated rapper Lil Wayne faces disciplinary action today at Rikers for violating prison rules regarding possession of unauthorized electronics, Atlanta's Gucci Mane strolled out the front door of Georgia's Fulton County Jail this morning, a free man. Outside the jai ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
Lil Wayne Facing Potentially Serious Consequences Over Jail Contraband
As we reported on Tuesday, Lil Wayne was caught this week at Rikers in possession of various illegal electronics--in this case, headphones, a charger, and, eventually, the MP3 player to which they belonged. Our source pegged the crime as an infraction--possession of contraband--but had no wor ... More >>
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May 14, 2010
Is Lil Wayne Making Self-Aggrandizing Prank Calls From Prison?
A friend of a friend shares with SOTC an interesting story he originally posted on his Facebook page: It's 9:50 a.m., Thursday morning, when his work cell phone--a number pretty much reserved for co-workers and family--rings. On the other end? A mysterious yet familiar voice. The question? "H ... More >>
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June 9, 2010
Lil Wayne: The Rikers Island Prison Rap
The heartbreaking genesis of this song? Lil Wayne heard his protégé Drake's collaboration with Jay-Z, "Light Up," over the radio in his cell in Rikers, where he's serving a year and day on weapons charges. Once the center of the rap universe, Wayne was left a spectator. But not for long--a day l ... More >>
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July 29, 2010
So Just How Homophobic Is Rap In 2010?
The familiar conceit of this past Sunday's New York Times Magazine article "Sissy Bounce: New Orleans's Gender-Bending Rap," goes something like this: There are some gay rappers in New Orleans. Rap's usually really homophobic. That's crazy, huh? Contrasting the apparently enlightened attitude ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
Drake Is Not Exactly Answering Lil Wayne's Prison Phone Calls
"I call Drake at least once a week," Lil Wayne told Hot 97's Funkmaster Flex last night, phoning in from Rikers. "I actually call three or four times a week, but he only picks up for me once a week." He was laughing when he said it: Wayne, of all people, knows what it is to be one of the most ... More >>
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September 15, 2010
Lil Wayne Tipped Off by Rikers Jail Staff, Brought Better Food, Allowed Long Visits
Lil Wayne even has a special visitors entrance Looks like hip-hop star Lil Wayne is even more of a VIP at the Riker's Island jail complex than we previously knew. Department of Corrections officials appear to be bending backwards for him, sources tell the Voice. We're told that when guests visit ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Drake
Lil Wayne even has a special visitors entrance Looks like hip-hop star Lil Wayne is even more of a VIP at the Riker's Island jail complex than we previously knew. Department of Corrections officials appear to be bending backwards for him, sources tell the Voice. We're told that when guests visit ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
Lil Wayne Will Serve Out the Remainder of His Time at Rikers in Solitary Confinement
Back in May, we reported that Lil Wayne had been caught hiding an iPod charger and pair of headphones in his cell (specifically, and somewhat tragically, in a discarded snack bag in his trashcan; the iPod itself was found being held by a neighboring inmate). Early reports suggested that Wayne ... More >>
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October 7, 2010
Lil Wayne Bids the Internet a Temporary Farewell
Yesterday, Lil Wayne asked his fans to stop sending him the hundreds of pieces of mail he gets per day, since he can no longer write back. (A violation of jail rules back in May landed him in solitary, where he'll remain until his release from Rikers in November.) And now, today, he's posted his f ... More >>
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November 4, 2010
Lil Wayne Is Officially A Free Man
And like that, the rapper most loved by former and current United States presidents is finally out of jail, eight months after he went into Rikers on felony gun charges. "You guys waiting for that jackass?" a Rikers guard asked the Rolling Stone reporter that had staked out the jail this morning. ... More >>
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November 5, 2010
The Weird Sad Loneliness of a Post Prison Lil Wayne
So Lil Wayne finally made it out of Rikers yesterday, walking away from solitary confinement, the Rikers guard who called him a "jackass," and what TMZ pegs as one solitary fan in the parking lot (not the way we heard it). Either way, he's free. And though we know now that he's spoken on the phone ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
Lil Wayne's Wild Weekend: Courtside in New Orleans, On Stage in Las Vegas, Red Carpet in Miami
Lil Wayne was released from prison last week, as you might have heard. He spent some time alone before rejoining his friends, first on Friday night in New Orleans, where he sat courtside to watch LeBron James and Dwayne Wade's Miami Heat take on his hometown Hornets. Saturday he took the stage in L ... More >>
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December 3, 2010
The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #16: Lil Wayne, "Paradice"
F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. Lil Wayne's rock album was as "eagerly anticipated" as tax season, a divorce court hearing, or the icy embrace of death itself. Watching the gifted rhymer aimlessly dick around with a guitar was like watching Picass ... More >>
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December 13, 2010
Lil Wayne's Twitter Confirms, Then Quickly Denies, His Apparently-Not-Happening Show Here Thursday Night
Well, folks, there was a solid 20 minutes there when Lil Wayne had us all convinced he was doing a show here with Nicki Minaj on Thursday, but he's apparently fallen victim to some sort of Twitter hack -- a lot of that going around today.
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December 14, 2010
Lil Wayne's Show In NYC Thursday Is Back On
Verily, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj will be taping a Carson Daly NYE spot on Thursday evening -- the same show Wayne announced and then immediately retracted yesterday. In a radio interview, Wayne explained the confusion: Some since-admonished third party hijacked his personal Twitter account t ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
Neon Trees
Verily, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj will be taping a Carson Daly NYE spot on Thursday evening -- the same show Wayne announced and then immediately retracted yesterday. In a radio interview, Wayne explained the confusion: Some since-admonished third party hijacked his personal Twitter account t ... More >>
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March 25, 2011
The 10 Best Post-Prison Lil Wayne Songs (Plus the Other 16!)
It's been almost 5 months, or 141 days, or 3384 hours, or 203,040 minutes since Lil Wayne got out of jail. And in that time, by our count, he's made 26 new musical appearances. A few of these might have been recorded before he went to jail (pre-probation-Wayne's maniacally hoarse voice genera ... More >>
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April 20, 2011
So, This Is Really The Cover Of Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter IV"
Not going to lie: When someone sent me the LOL-filled BuzzFeed page riffing on the cover to Lil Wayne's next LP (which is now coming out in June) I figured that the image being virtually tittered at was a joke perpetuated by one of the many Internet types with a copy of Photoshop, memories of ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Live: Bamboozle Stimulates Every Sense (And Then Some)
So much to see, everywhere. The Bamboozle Meadowlands April 29-May 1, 2011 Better than: Watching scene reports scroll by on Twitter. In a lot of ways, the Bamboozle is a festival tailor-made for the current moment of constant distraction. The festival's running time over three days totals ... More >>
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May 3, 2011
Hot 97 Announces The Seemingly Young Money-Sponsored Summer Jam '11 Lineup
Hot 97 has announced the lineup for Summer Jam '11, and it's (perhaps unsurprisingly) filled with Young Money acts: superstars Lil Wayne and Drake act as the de facto headliners, while a non-specific set by Young Money, the label, is on tap. Could that possibly mean an eventual cameo by Nic ... More >>
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May 3, 2011
The Curious 21st-Century Decline Of Hype Williams
On Friday, a link to three-minute making-of video for a scrapped, Hype Williams-helmed clip of "XXXO" appeared on M.I.A.'s twitter. The footage shows M.I.A and a small group of dancers (including Beyoncé choreographer Jonté) painted head-to-toe and gyrating to the song's hissing, whirling beat. Th ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV Pushed Back Yet Again
There's still time to change the cover, you know. After originally being slated to come out the day last November when he got out of jail, Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV has been pushed back from June 21 to August 29. Of course, delays are nothing new to today's scared-of-its-own-shadow record ind ... More >>
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June 14, 2011
Who Will Be The Next Pop Star To Draw Inspiration From t.A.T.u.?
It probably shouldn't have come as too much of a surprise that the attention-seeking girl-kisser Katy Perry drew inspiration from the Russian pop duo t.A.T.u.; her recent creepy chart-topper "E.T." sounds as good as it does in large part because it's heavily inspired by the pair's still-dizzying 20 ... More >>
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July 13, 2011
Sorry For The Weight: Lil Wayne's New Mixtape Full Of Empty Posturing
Lil Wayne's mixtapes used to be events in rap. His incredible work on the Dedication and Drought series gave birth to the Mixtape Weezy that could credibly claim to be the best rapper alive in 2006-07, a rapper so good that Jay-Z admitted on his otherwise rapper-loathing "D.O.A." that he "mig ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
Live: Lil Wayne Is The Master Of Ceremonies In New Jersey
Lil Wayne w/Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement, Lloyd PNC Bank Arts Center Tuesday, July 26 Better than: Sorry For The Wait. Before Lil Wayne took the stage last night at the PNC Bank Arts Center, the PA was playing cuts from Sorry For The Wait, the stopgap mixtape released as an apologia ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
The American Music Awards Nominations: Hey, Did You Know Adele Sold A Lot Of Albums This Year?
Have you bought your copy yet? (Give it time.) You can have your Grammys and your Mercury Prizes and your Polaris Prizes and whatever other musical prizes honor things like "talent" and "artistry"—the most honest awards show in pop music, though, is undoubtedly the American Music Awards ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 23, 2011
GROWING PAINS
Robin Thicke premieres his newest record
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