Lil' Wayne

Five utterly frustrating songs: Odd Future, Of Montreal & more

​Sometimes a song comes along and you just hate everything about it. Everything is wrong: your sensors are howling, the hair stands up on your neck, and it's some nightmare shit where unless you can somehow get away from or destroy whatever device is causing the awful song to play, your head will ... More >>

Lil' Twist on Adele, his name, and his mentor Lil Wayne

​Minneapolis has a tendency to become so preoccupied with the local backpack rap mainstays that commercial hip-hop oftentimes gets lost in the periphery. Chalk it up to Rhymesayers loyalty or the fact that a majority of big-ticket rap promoters have settled on dismissing Minneapolis as a flyover c ... More >>

Game coming to Epic Nov. 6: Win tickets now

Game's new album is out now​Game is a Grammy-nominated rapper most known for being a member of G-Unit, and this fall he delivered one of the season's standouts with The Red Album. It's a rough-and-tumble onslaught featuring major guest stars like Lil Wayne, Tyler The Creator, Lloyd, E-40 and other ... More >>

50 Cent Lil Wayne Beef: Fiddy rips Weezy for skateboarding, hot pants

​50 Cent attacks Lil Wayne on a new track, "Love, Hate, Love," which also takes a swipe at former G-Unit member Game.Fiddy has long been known for his takedown tracks -- he became famous with "How to Rob," which took on just about every rapper in the game, and famously feuded with Ja Rule.Sure, a ... More >>

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​50 Cent attacks Lil Wayne on a new track, "Love, Hate, Love," which also takes a swipe at former G-Unit member Game.Fiddy has long been known for his takedown tracks -- he became famous with "How to Rob," which took on just about every rapper in the game, and famously feuded with Ja Rule.Sure, a ... More >>

She Will: Lil Wayne's new single off Carter IV

Lil Wayne on She Will​Lil Wayne just released "She Will," the fourth pre-release single off the hotly-anticipated Carter IV album, which is set to drop August 29.The song features Drake and may provide a hint of what Weezy's new proper major label album will sound like. So is this good news or bad ... More >>

Lil Wayne at the Xcel Energy Center, 8/10/11

Photos by Erik Hess​Lil WayneAugust 10, 2011Xcel Center, St. PaulLil Wayne is in a hurry to make up for lost time. Coming off a career-interrupting prison stint, the self-proclaimed best rapper alive picked up where he left off, resuming the rigorous road schedule that made him one of the top gros ... More >>

Sorry 4 the Wait: Lil Wayne's free download mixtape reviewed track-by-track

Sorry 4 the bad album artwork.​Lil Wayne dropped his latest mixtape Wednesday as an apology to fans for the delays to Carter IV, which now won't be seen until the end of August.The album features Weezy freestyling over a number of tracks, including Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," and you can't beat ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement, Rick Ross and Lloyd coming to Xcel August 9

​It seems like pretty much every pop star on the Top 40 charts is planning to make their way to the Twin Cities this summer to play one of our two arenas, and this new date comprises a handful of high-profile stars: Lil Wayne will steer his tour toward St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center on August 9 wit ... More >>

Lil Wayne's ode to the Packers, 'Green and Yellow'

​Leading up to the Super Bowl, it's expected (especially for Vikings fans, who seem doomed to never make it back to the big game) that everyone chooses a side to cheer for while we all make our big plans for Sunday. And those truly lucky fans of the teams involved in the Super Bowl typically puff ... More >>

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​Leading up to the Super Bowl, it's expected (especially for Vikings fans, who seem doomed to never make it back to the big game) that everyone chooses a side to cheer for while we all make our big plans for Sunday. And those truly lucky fans of the teams involved in the Super Bowl typically puff ... More >>

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​Leading up to the Super Bowl, it's expected (especially for Vikings fans, who seem doomed to never make it back to the big game) that everyone chooses a side to cheer for while we all make our big plans for Sunday. And those truly lucky fans of the teams involved in the Super Bowl typically puff ... More >>

6 Foot 7 Foot by Lil Wayne: Weezy's back!

Weezy's back!​Recently released from confinement in prison, Lil Wayne this week stunned the hip hop world with the release of  "6 Foot 7 Foot," the first single off the much-anticipated "Carter IV."Anyone who thought Weezy was dropping off needs to check themselves--this is vintage Lil Wayne, ... More >>

Lil Wayne drops first post-prison verses

​At this point, Gimme Noise has almost nothing invested in Lil Wayne.This is a politically and culturally volatile -- even sacrilegious -- thing to say, I know, and there are lots of critics at City Pages who will vehemently disagree. For these people -- people who took I Am Not A Human Being and ... More >>

Lil Wayne's letter from solitary confinement

Weezy speaks from punitive segregation.​In a surprising development, Lil Wayne has just posted a letter to his fans written from solitary confinement.Just last week, Weezy told fans that he was going to be on silence mode for the next several weeks while serving out a sentence to punitive segregat ... More >>

Lil Wayne on Twitter: What's Weezy Trying to Tell Us?

​Live from Rikers, It's Weezy!​Lil Wayne has always been known as a prolific writer, so Twitter's 140-character bursts would seem to be a perfect medium for him, especially in this time of seemingly endless contemplation.We've put together the best Twitter wisdom of Weezy, doing our best to repr ... More >>

Sound Unseen screens flicks on Phil Spector, Feist, Lil' Wayne

Look at What the Light Did Now (Feist)​Music and film are remarkably interlinked on a multitude of levels. For example, music can add a degree of unspoken insight and intensity to a film, while film can dig deeper into the mindset of the artist behind the music. It's a win-win relationship that Mi ... More >>

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Look at What the Light Did Now (Feist)​Music and film are remarkably interlinked on a multitude of levels. For example, music can add a degree of unspoken insight and intensity to a film, while film can dig deeper into the mindset of the artist behind the music. It's a win-win relationship that Mi ... More >>

I Am Not A Human Being: Track-by-track review

I Am Not A Human Being is as crazy as its name​Lil Wayne dropped "I Am Not A Human Being" on iTunes today, unleashing his prison album on the free world.Previously, we speculated wildly about what the new album would sound like, noting that it was something of a coming out party for Young Money Re ... More >>

"I Am Not A Human Being": Lil Wayne's Rikers prison album

I Am Not A Human Being by Lil Wayne​On his Facebook page, Lil Wayne just posted the tracklist for "I Am Not A Human Being," the album  that he announced from his incarceration on Rikers Island.We can see from the tracklist that Drake is getting a big push (or perhaps supporting Weezy, conside ... More >>

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I Am Not A Human Being by Lil Wayne​On his Facebook page, Lil Wayne just posted the tracklist for "I Am Not A Human Being," the album  that he announced from his incarceration on Rikers Island.We can see from the tracklist that Drake is getting a big push (or perhaps supporting Weezy, conside ... More >>

Lil Wayne blackface skit roils Bethel University

​Here's a great bad idea for a campus AIDS program fundraiser: Have a student in blackface impersonate Lil Wayne, complete with dreadlocks, gold teeth and baggy pants. Seriously? Evidently that's what happened recently at Bethel University. The students in the skit have apologized, but their ... More >>

Off With Their Heads, "Drive"

Local pop-punk band Off With Their Heads are gearing up to release In Desolation, their first album on Epitaph Records, on June 8. The group released their first single off the new record, "Drive," with this music video via Alternative Press, and posted the following description of their video on th ... More >>

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Lil Wayne to MJ mourners: "Girl I got that dope dick"

While every other attendee of the BET Awards was mourning Michael Jackson, Lil Wayne announced his intention to bang every girl in the world.

The seductive allure of Lil Wayne's Hot Revolver

It's the second single off "Rebirth," the mixtape god's rock album, and you know what? It ain't half bad.

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It's the second single off "Rebirth," the mixtape god's rock album, and you know what? It ain't half bad.

Lil Wayne's "Prom Queen" debuts

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