Lil' Wayne

Kanye West's I Am God and Ten Other Terrible Album Titles

Confidence is sexy, and a bold nature can turn a mouse into a king among men, but someone forgot to tell Kanye West the rule of subtlety. Personally, we think the egomaniacal musician is the genius he claims to be, but all things in moderation. Surely, his forthcoming album will be a righteous ga ... More >>

Worst Songs of 2012: Lil Wayne to LMFAO

Wow, y'all. Another year has come and gone. But what do we have to show for it? Sure, we had a lot of fun. We discovered a lot of new, hopeful artists and said goodbye to a few favorites. But we also saw the rise of some terrible pop bullshit and we were forced to listen to some of the worst manu ... More >>

DJ Khaled and Lil Wayne's "Bitches & Bottles": The Most Expensive Vodka Commercial Ever

If we've learned anything from all the 30 Rock we've been watching, it's that product integration is the future of successful American capitalism. This is a lesson echoed with superb execution in the modern rap community, most members of which have a variety of products their hocking at any given t ... More >>

YMCMB: Seven Signs of the Young Money Empire's Decline

Alright, the YMCMB crew is definitely at the top of the world right now. But it seems like things are beginning to go astray. The label's Holy Trinity is Wayne, Drake, and Nicki. But lately, they're doing strange things, picking dumb fights with other famous people, and garnering the wrong kinds of ... More >>

The 20 Richest Rappers: From Pitbull to Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Kanye, Jay-Z, and Dre Day

As the country sits waiting for the release of a certain Welsh cake eater's tax returns, other high-profilers are happy to let the whole world know how swole their pockets were this year. Forbes released its latest list of haha-they-have-more-money-than-you musicians. And this time, we're talkin' t ... More >>

Lil Wayne Drops Acid in the Suburbs, Makes Music Video With Pink Elephants and Big Sean

What happens when Lil Wayne takes a trip to the suburbs with a dreaded head full of lysergic acid diethylamide? Homie hangs out with a headbanging pink pachyderm. Parties with dismembered mannequins. Hotboxes a McMansion. Skanks in the street. And pretends his skateboard is a one-man helicopter. ... More >>

Ace Hood's Fisker Karma and Seven Other Hip-Hop Eco-Whips

Recently, Ace Hood was back in town shooting the video for his feature on DJ Absolut's "Untouchable." And like most ballers, Ace was driving a sick whip. But what's notable is he was driving a Fisker Karma, a hybrid that can get 52 miles per gallon. Between money and marijuana, hip-hop was already ... More >>

Top Ten Rap Felons: Shoot Outs, Beat Downs, and Face Eating

In the gritty rap game, honor is everything. And honor usually means a bag full of automatic weapons at an airport. Alright, not every rapper's got a rap sheet. But if you talk the talk, you're expected to do the time. A mean MC with a big mouth is just a poser without a felony charge. And getting ... More >>

Lil Wayne's Strip Club Power Lunches and Other Predictions for His New Lifestyle Website

Whether he's being denied access to the Oklahoma City Thunder game or pulling Nicki Minaj out of Summer Jam, there's never a dull moment in Lil Wayne's life. He is undeniably one of hip-hop's most colorful characters and, beginning next week, he'll become one of the game's most transparent moguls. ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Birdman, and YMCMB's Memorial Day Party at Cameo Miami: A 37-Photo Recap

Cameo is to Washington Avenue what sand is to the beach. And Saturday night's YMCMB party proved it. StrongArm DJ Entice celebrated a birthday, Flo Rida got hype, and the Young Money crew bought so many bottles that the club ran out of sparklers. Even Gucci Mane came through stunting. We never d ... More >>

Justin Bieber Allegedly Assaults Paparazzo! Five Other Musicians Who've Slapped Photogs

There's a famous dicho Cubano that our grandmother used to say. And it goes, Dime con quién andas y te diré quién eres. Roughly translated, it means you are the company you keep. And evidently, Justin Bieber's relationship with Floyd "Money" Mayweather has transformed the innocent 18-year-old p ... More >>

Top Ten Totally Ridiculous Celebrity DJs

You know why non-EDM fans don't take DJing seriously as an art form? It's because celebrities keep ruining everything. When shit went digital in the mid 2000s, it was the coolest thing to happen since Grandmaster Flash figured how to scratch. And consequently, DJing became more popular, experimenta ... More >>

Nickelback's Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne! The Five Worst Pop Collaborations

Did you guys just feel that rip in the space-time continuum? Literally the two shittiest musical artists of all time, Nickelback's Chad Kroeger and Avril Lavigne, are in the studio, making an album together. These two Canadian hacks are combining their talents as the world's most-hated musicians t ... More >>

Miami Soul Queen Betty Wright Talks The Roots, Lil Wayne, and "Old Songs"

Betty Wright should need no introduction, especially in Miami. The lifelong 305 resident has been making records in South Florida since 1956 when she sang on an album from her family's gospel band, Echoes of Joy, at age two. A veteran solo act by her late teens, Wright became one of R&B's top fe ... More >>

Lil Wayne Sells Mountain Dew, Six Others Rappers Who Love Soft Drinks

​Fueling the obesity epidemic and enabling the Young Money Maniac's sizzurp addiction, PepsiCo's toxic green nectar, Mountain Dew, has a new spokesperson and his name is Lil Wayne. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. and Mountain Dew have come together to form DEWeezy, ... More >>

Fact: Lil Wayne Isn't Actually a Billionaire

​Did you know that Young Money Cash Money Billionaire boss Lil Wayne isn't actually a billionaire? Well, homie ... It's true. Despite squashing his $5.6-million beef with the IRS, slanging 1.92 million copies of Tha Carter IV in this totally shitty economy, ranking among Billboard's Top Artists f ... More >>

Lil Wayne Writing Prison Memoir Titled Gone Till November

​Granted ... Lil Wayne ain't no Nelson Mandela. He only spent 11 months in prison (not, you know, 27 years) after getting busted on his tour bus for "attempted possession of a weapon" (not, you know, attempting to free the people of South Africa from the horrors of Apartheid), but why not cash in ... More >>

Lil Wayne, Puff Daddy, and DJ Khaled get a deadline

Lil Wayne And DJ Khaled Are Gonna Lose Their Miami Residency

Alex Izaguirre​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke doesn't like how Lil Wayne and DJ Khaled use Miami but don't give back to the Magic City. I've got a m ... More >>

Bieber's "How To Love" Cover: An Extremely Detailed Breakdown of the Corniest Track Ever

Behold the Biebz and Weezy's love child!​Just when you thought "How To Love" -- Lil Wayne's big nasty ball o' cheese ballad and lead single from his dismal Tha Carter IV -- couldn't get any worse .... Tween-pop sensation and women's jeans fanatic Justin Bieber has recorded his own remix of Weezy' ... More >>

Jay-Z and Eminem top Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, and Drake

Jay-Z Is King of the Hip-Hop Throne

Luther "Luke" Campbell, the man whose booty-shaking madness made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke declares the best MCs in hip-hop.After listening to the new Jay-Z and Kanye West album, Watch the Throne, I was left ... More >>

Lil Twist as part of Lil Wayne's I Am Still Music Tour at BankAtlantic Center April 5

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Hanging With Drake and Talking to Cortez Bryant on New Year's Eve

Drizzy loves Prunk TV.​Welcome to the first Prunk TV episode of 2011! And we'll start off with footage of Drake performing at the W Hotel South Beach on New Year's Eve. Drake is at the top of his game right now. It was the perfect way to bring in the New Year. Bleidat! As a venue, the W is off t ... More >>

Young Money engineer Mike Banger talks Lil Wayne and Tha Carter IV

Call 911, Go to Jail

Our point exactly.​All the morons in America get funneled south towards Florida, and then the dregs that are truly weighed down by excessive stupidity end up rattling around in the Southern tip of the state. Yep, physics is the only way to explain why we have our own tag on dumb-things site Fark ... More >>

305 Live: Lil Wayne, Mayday, Jovi Rockwell, And More In Our Local Hip-Hop News

​Lil Wayne is currently behind bars, but still he's managing to pull off the release of about four videos within the span of this weekend via MTV. Two of them feature local group Mayday playing backup for Weezy.The first video is for the Cool & Dre-produced "Da Da Da," which wa ... More >>

Rappers Have A Right To Bear Arms

Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. Up this week, Luke explains why famous rappers such as Lil Wayne and T.I. get caught with illegal guns.Earlier this month, Lil Wayne began a ... More >>

Miami's Michelle Delamor Already Opened for Lil Wayne, But Will She Be the Next American Idol?

Photo by Patrick Ecclestein / FOXMichelle DelamorMiami hasn't had a great American Idol hope since 7th season second runner-up Syesha Marcado, but can Michelle Delamor, named to the top 24, finally bring the idol crown to South Florida?The 20-year-old is a 2006 graduate of Miami Beach Senior High an ... More >>

Super Bowl 2010: Big Game Extravaganza with Lil Wayne Canceled

Photo by Sayre BermanSorry, Lil Wayne won't be partying with the animals at Jungle Island.​If you were hyped up to see Lil Wayne, Sean Kingston, and Trey Songz Saturday at the Miami Big Game Extravaganza at Jungle Island, sorry to break the news to you that the event has been canceled. According t ... More >>

Young Money Album Released Today

We are not the same, I am a martian. I recently spent a Friday night in the studios with the Cash Money Heroes as they worked on a new Kevin Rudolf song featuring Lil Wayne, Jay Sean, and Birdman. Here is some footage of Baby in the studio, and watching Sports Center. Miami loves Cash Money. I have ... More >>

Everybody Hates Chris

Derick G. Makes Documentaries for Cash Money Records and Lil Wayne

We last spoke to local hip-hop shooter Derick G. back in June when he had just leveraged his still image work into the world of moving pictures, in high definition.Derick recently hit a new phase in his career when he gained unprecedented access to roll with Cash Money Records as a documentarian ... More >>

Prunk TV with Melo (a.k.a. Carmelo Anthony)

Carmelo Anthony spoke with Prunk TV recently at a party in Miami. He was promoting his hip-hop label, Krossover Entertainment. Melo won a gold medal in Beijing last year, but who really cares, when the Miami Heat crushed the Atlanta Hawks like a bunch of grapes on Saturday. Dway ... More >>

Top Pop Singles of 2008

Sometimes a girl just needs a tune.

Top 10 Pop Songs of 2008

Pop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten single ... More >>

Recession Special

A SoBe condo development offers a free Lamborghini with every apartment. Riptide goes undercover.

Kevin Rudolf Is Cash Money's First Rock Act

And it doesn't hurt that Lil Wayne is on the "gangsta emo" guy's debut single.

T.I.

Paper Trail (Atlantic)

Last Night: SummerFest 2008 at BankAtlantic Center

Head Spins: Drop.D

Love Hate's resident hip-hop hero.

Loving the New Weezy/Yeezy Collaboration

Large and in Charge

Fat Joe returns with The Elephant in the Room.

Check the Credits

StreetRunner's got beats for every day of the week.

Bigg Pimpin'

Local producer Bigg D's rise to the top of the charts.

The Party Crasher - Lil Wayne's Birthday Bash

Fat Joe feat. Lil' Wayne

"Make 'Em Rain" (Terror Squad)

Lil' Wayne

The Carter II (Cash Money)

Lean Back

Many searched for the summer banger, but only Fat Joe's Terror Squad claimed the prize