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  Who Charted? Tyler's 'Wolf' Overtakes Weezy, Nips at Timberlake's Heels

  April 10, 2013 – First! Though Justin Timberlake's vision was initially called into question, he's more than justified his foresight where The 20/20 Experience is concerned. The recent inductee to Saturday Night Live's five-timers club has sold over 2 million copies worldwide of his first album in seven years. …
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  Rap Songs of the Week: Gunplay Plus Dubstep Minus Lil Wayne Equals Everything

  April 3, 2013 – This week's five songs are all over the place. We've got a bass remix, a #BASED club song, a rappin'-ass hero and problematic human being owning a dubstep beat, post-screw Tumblr rap from Texas, and a sober cautionary tale to bring you back down to earth. Enjoy.Ciara "Body Party (Remix by Kutcorners & Marvel)"With the Mike Will Made It-produced, Future co-written "Body Party," Ciara finally gets the type of song she deserves. …
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  Who Charted? Timberlake, Lil Wayne, the Strokes and Other People We Actually Like

  April 3, 2013 – First! After opening at just shy of a million, Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience handily surpasses the platinum mark by notching an additional 318,000 sales according to Nielsen SoundScan. Sales fell off 67 percent from the debut week, but that's not uncommon. One Direction's Take Me Home suffered the exact same ratio in its second week. Taylor Swift's massively triumphant Red dipped 72 percent. …
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  Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne Get Passionate in Steamy 'High School' Heist Video

  April 2, 2013 – Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne have been flirting on record for years. On Weezy's 2007 mixtape masterpiece Da Drought 3, which on my copy credits "Nikki Menaj," the "Super Bass" MC spits, "You be Harry Potter / and I'll be Hermione," before comparing the flavor of her nether regions to mango. For quite some time, she referred to herself as "Nicki Lewinsky" (Weezy being the good ol' president in that scenario). …
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  Lil Wayne, an Epileptic, Has Seizures Often, But Last One Almost Killed Him

  March 29, 2013 – Lil Wayne has finally explained his recent hospitalization for seizures. In an interview with DJ Felli Fell on Los Angeles radio station Power 106 (via Rap-Up), Tunechi said he is an epileptic with a history of frequent seizures. But the Young Money rapper, who just released the mixed-bag I Am Not a Human Being II, reiterated that he's healthy ahead of this summer's 2013 America's Most Wanted Music Festival tour with T.I. …
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  Rap Songs of the Week: Future Breaks Up, Moans Quirkily

  March 28, 2013 – This week, we've got some emotions (Future bemoaning the end of a relationship, Shady Blaze mourning the loss of his child) and a whole lot of questionable taste (raps over TV-show theme songs and yacht rock, Lil Wayne riding a wannabe movie-musical piano epic).Fiend, feat. …
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  Lil Wayne, 'I Am Not a Human Being II' (Young Money/Cash Money/Republic)

  March 26, 2013 – Two Fridays ago, Lil Wayne lay in the Intensive Care Unit of Los Angeles' Cedars Sinai Hospital, suffering from an alleged overdose of codeine-laced cough syrup. Reportedly, he was in a coma; TMZ announced that he'd been prepared for his last rites. And thus did Rap Twitter damn near fell apart. By the next day, such morbid talk proved mercifully premature. The last-rites stuff was recanted. …
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  Lil Wayne Plots 'America's Most Wanted' Tour and Raps on Unwanted Limp Bizkit Song

  March 25, 2013 – A week after getting out of the hospital, Lil Wayne has announced a massive tour.Wayne's new album, I'm Not a Human Being 2, comes out tomorrow, and while it would probably be impossible to return to his peaks from the last decade, songs like single "Rich as Fuck" are at least a step back in the right direction. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Beyonce & The-Dream Help Screw the World

  March 22, 2013 – Rap things worth caring about. Ranked!1. Lil Wayne Isn't Dead: So, that didn't happen. Great, right? Of course it's great. Next week, we've got I Am Not a Human Being 2 coming out. It will inevitably be painted as another dip in quality and Wayne skateboards a lot now and blah blah blah. Listen, it ain't 2008 for any of us. …
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  Lil Wayne Reassures Fans and Looks 'Rich as Fuck' in New Videos

  March 22, 2013 – Kanye West must've heard Lil Wayne's new material when he graciously called the Young Money rapper the No. 1 MC in the game right now. The recently leaked I Am Not a Human Being II, which you can and probably should buy when it comes out on March 26, represents Weezy at the best he's sounded on a full-length release in years: unbridled id, culture-vulturing free association, zeitgeist-guiding production. …
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