Best of the BET Hip-Hop Awards

T-Pain's secret break-dancing weapon and Lil Wayne's, er, latest project rule all.
Lil Wayne (left), T-Pain (right)

Was it murder on the red carpet that snagged rapper/producer T-Pain hosting duties at this year's BET Hip-Hop Awards, held Saturday night in Atlanta?

Music to Lose Your Freakin’ Life Savings By

What do Lil Wayne, Joey Ramone, and CNBC's Maria Bartiromo all have in common? SPIN's Steve Kandell explains.
Lil' Wayne, Maria Bartiromo

The entire world is in the grips of an economic meltdown so horrific that, in the unlikely event any of us can afford enough gin to want to procreate, our children will be lucky to wear burlap sacks and eat wood chips.

Fall Out Boy Tap Diverse Collaborators for New Record

Which musical heavyweights are planning to make cameos on Folie à Deux? Click here to find out!
Fall Out Boy, Lil' Wayne and Debbie Harry

Sure, emo heavyweights Fall Out Boy have worked with some strange sonic bedfellows in the past -- their remix-trading relationship with Kanye West, for example.

SPIN's Week in Review, July 7-11

What we learned this week: The Smashing Pumpkins are turning 20. Beck may carry a little Guilt, but he's as good as ever. And much more.
The Smashing Pumpkins / Photo by Ben Solomon

After the smoke cleared and the hangovers faded from the weekend's big bombs and bashes, the party raged on as the Smashing Pumpkins unveiled plans to celebrate their 20th anniversary, the fruits of Beck and Danger Mouse's partnership arrived, and Albert Hammond Jr. went to bat. Let's recap:

As Lil Wayne Hits No. 1, We Encourage All to 'Bang Insanely, Not Try to Understand'

Weezy F. Baby's latest leads the Billboard charts for the second time; peep the Spin review.
Lil Wayne / Photo by Jonathan Mannion

"They cannot see me / They are like Stevie," Lil Wayne once boasted. And with the heights our favorite rasping martian and his syrup-fueled spaceship have reached recently, he's absolutely right. Larger than life, but too high to see (in more ways than one), the Young Carter has again peaked at No.

Alkaline Trio, House of Blues Chicago, IL, July 9, 2008

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