“Our next guest is one of the most popular rappers in the world,” Jimmy Kimmell announced last night on his ABC show. And then he welcomed to the stage a purple-shirted audience member wearing another audience member’s baseball cap and, of course, a dreadlock wig. Lil Wayne, Kimmell informed audience members a few moments earlier, hadn’t shown up for his interview.
Good thing the fake Lil Wayne was game for a lively conversation of his own. Turns out Weezy was actually in prison for speeding, hails originally from New York, and is a huge, huge fan of hockey. “How often do you wash your hair?” Kimmel asks. “Did Justin [Bieber] visit you in prison?” Watch the non-interview below, while hoping real Weezy is safe out there, and that false Weezy gets some kind of acting bit part out of this. Nice to meet you, Carl!
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Wayne, although sadly not his stand-in, did somehow manage to show up to the shoot for Robin Thicke’s “Pretty Lil’ Heart” video, directed by pop mainstay Marc Klasfeld (via Rap-Up). From Thicke’s late-2011 fifth album Love After War, the unsurprisingly smooth loverman ballad gets a video treatment that recalls vintage Hollywood fare like A Streetcar Named Desire, right down to the Bruno Mars-slick hair and Marlon Brando wifebeater. Fresh to death and sick as ca-cancer, right?
Thicke’s smoky croon over acoustic strums and horn fanfares is as expert as ever, with enough charm to get over the time-tested (all the more so given the vintage Hollywood imagery) material. Also: there’s one of those drumming monkeys toys! Weezy’s endearing soft spot for pillowy slow jams is well-documented, and his latest verse on a Thicke track comes right at the top, showing us how to love: candles, commitment, Rocky sexual metaphors. Hey, what about a man’s unbreakable commitment to late-night TV show hosts?
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