Lil Wayne has been pulled from the bill of another music festival as his run of bad luck continues. The rapper was forced to cancel his performance at the Strawberries & Creem festival in the U.K. on Saturday, June 18, after he was denied entry into the country “directly by …
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J. Cole‘s “Interlude,” the lead single from his just released album The Off-Season, shot to Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, ending a month-long run for Polo G‘s “Rapstar.” Cole self-produced the new track along with T-Minus and Tommy Parker. It pulled in 23 million streams …
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Lil Wayne has dropped his new video for “Mama Mia,” a highlight from the rapper’s latest LP Funeral. The visual stuffs a lot into its four-minute runtime: Multiple Lil Waynes, a golden toilet (and matching golden plungers), dancers, the rapper shooting paintballs at mannequins while wearing a Margiela apron, a …
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Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker has teamed with Lil Wayne and Rick Ross for a big and brash new track, “Gimme Brain,” that marks the first release from Barker’s new label, DTA Records. Barker produced “Gimme Brain,” which boasts a speaker-shaking mix of drums and bass peppered with twisty synth lines …
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The long, convoluted road to Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter V can be demonstrated by the contrasting trajectories of two songs on the album, “Famous” and “Demon.” “Famous” is an oldie: This sentimental rap ballad was produced by Lasanna “Ace” Harris and Shama Joseph in 2014. That year, the two beat-makers …
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Lil Wayne hosted his annual Lil WeezyAna Fest Saturday night at New Orleans’ Champions Square, where the rapper brought out surprise guest Nicki Minaj and accepted an apology from Birdman. The one-day fest, which doubled as a celebration of the 10th anniversary of the rapper’s landmark Tha Carter III, also …
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