Lil Wayne

Related Content

• Future
  February 27, 2013
• Bad Santa
  December 12, 2012
• Five utterly frustrating songs: Odd Future, Of Montreal & more
  March 26, 2012
• Lil' Twist on Adele, his name, and his mentor Lil Wayne
  March 9, 2012
• KDWB Star Party 2012: Gym Class Heroes, Karmin & more
  April 5, 2012

More About

• Lil' Wayne
• T-Pain
• Rodney King
• Arts, Entertainment, and Media
• Hip-Hop and Rap

It's exhilarating when an artist as good as Lil Wayne does whatever he wants, even when you don't want everything he does. So Tha Carter III (Universal Motown) has all the splattering ebullience of the high schools it ruled in 2008, from the laughed-through come-ons and botched track list to the giddy wordplay and perfectionist sonic details, a mixtape-era monsterpiece with room for Rodney King sex jokes, Martian impressions, and the still-floating city of New Orleans. Live, this translates into giving the kids what they want and then some, with smash openers Keyshia Cole (an R&B great in her own right) and Gym Class Heroes, plus Auto-Tunesmith pop star T-Pain, who brings a literal traveling circus complete with calliope, a daisy-duke-wearing stilt-walker, fire-jugglers, and dwarf breakdancers. The headliner fronts an elevated live band where Weezy alone would be enough.
Mon., Jan. 19, 7 p.m., 2009