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  Watch Drake Hit the Bay With Lil Wayne in 'The Motto'

  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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  Hear Ke$ha Get Extra 'Sleazy' With Lil Wayne, Andre 3000 and Co.

  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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  Drake and Lil Wayne Team for Silky-Smooth Jam 'The Real Her'

  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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  Enjoy Nicki Minaj's Spot-On Lil Wayne Impression

  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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  We Watched Lil Wayne's 30-Minute PSA So You Don't Have To

  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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  Hear B.o.B.'s Hot Track With Lil Wayne

  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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  Lil Wayne: GOP Is "Never Going to Like Us"

  September 14, 2011 – While he didn't exactly pull a Kanye West, and say that the Republican party doesn't care about black people, Lil Wayne took the current crop of Republican presidential candidates to task in an interview with VIBE. "You learn from what the right wing is doing and you take something from it," Wayne told VIBE. "I feel like as a people the most we can do is better ourselves and learn. …
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  Lil Wayne's 'Carter IV' Sells 964K, Tops Charts

  September 7, 2011 – Lil Wayne has once again put up big numbers on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The rapper nabbed the No. 1 spot this week for his album Tha Carter IV, selling 964,000 copies, according to Billboard. …
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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  September 3, 2011 – This week, Jack White announced that he's producing Insane Clown Posse's new single, SPIN posted exclusive video of St. Vincent covering Tom Waits, and Lil Wayne returned with his long-delayed album Tha Carter IV. …
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  Lil Wayne, 'Tha Carter IV' (Young Money/Cash Money)

  August 29, 2011 – Some great artists burst in and burn out. Rappers, especially, struggle to sustain relevance, let alone greatness. What happened this year with Watch the Throne, the conversation-corralling collaboration between Kanye West, 34, and Jay-Z, 41, isn't just an anomaly -- it's a frog storm. Lil Wayne is not yet 29 and has been recording professionally almost exactly as long as West. …
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