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January 26, 2012 If anyone still doubted Lil Wayne didn't have enough time to mull things over in prison, they can rest easy now. True to prolific form, the wordsmith extraordinaire is set to release yet another record in the coming months, according to YMCMB boss Bryan "Birdman" Williams. …
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January 12, 2012 One thing we now know: Lil Wayne is writing a memoir about the eight months he spent at Rikers Island prison on a gun possession charge in 2010. One thing we believe: It is almost impossible to imagine a situation where this book will not be awesome.
Grand Central will publish the book, Gone Till November, which is slated for a November release. …
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December 26, 2011 While you were Christmas-ing, Lady Gaga, Cat Power, the xx, and Frank Ocean were unleashing new music. And Lil Wayne rolled out a new online sports chat show that is Weezyrific. Here's what you missed:
Cat Power's "King Rides By"A seven-minute redo of her 1996 What Would the Community Think track set to visuals of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao working out. …
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December 22, 2011 Drake recently played a tiny part in Bay Area sports history, as the San Francisco 49ers danced to the hip-hop smoothie en route to clinching their division. …
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December 13, 2011 When Ke$ha arrived with Animal in 2010, critic Ann Powers marvelously compared her to the shit-talking heroines of classic '30s and '40s screwball comedy films, "brassy like Jean Harlow and saucy like Mae West." The times are certainly ripe for a return of a "wisecracking dame," even one who can be as gleefully dumb 'n' dirty as 24-year-old Kesha Rose Sebert — after all, Paul Krugman just yesterday declared we're actually in a new …
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October 21, 2011 Drake and Lil Wayne are bona fide rappers, but, damn, they make one hell of an R&B song. "The Real Her," which may or may not be slated for Drake's upcoming Take Care, dropped online Friday and it's a silky-smooth, ethereal R&B jam reminiscent of Drake's fellow Torontonian the Weeknd. Download the song at the Smoking Section.
Echoing vocals. Warped piano. Dripping effects. Spare beats. …
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October 18, 2011 When Lil Wayne signed Nicki Minaj to his Young Money imprint, the New Orleans-born hip-hop giant might have seen a little bit of himself. Donning pink-tipped blonde dreadlocks and a faraway look, Minaj perfectly embodies the stoned quasi-profundity of a Weezy interview in a recently posted video. …
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October 10, 2011 Inspired by the death of Apple visionary Steve Jobs, Lil Wayne recorded a half-hour treatise on creativity, skateboarding, and syrup at his impressive mansion. Weezy is calling the lengthy monologue (via Nah Right) a "Public Service Announcement." SPIN performed the real public service and watched this thing so you don't have to. …
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September 27, 2011 B.o.B. was everywhere last year, in no small part thanks to smash-hit collaborations with Paramore's Hayley Williams and Weezer's Rivers Cuomo. As the Atlanta rapper preps his follow-up to 2010's The Adventures of Bobby Ray, he's teaming up with another verse-slinger who's no stranger to the top of the charts: Lil Wayne. …
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