Lil' Wayne

Lil Wayne Announces I Am Music II North American Tour With Nicki Minaj and Rick Ross

Photo by DJ Scoob Doo via weezythanxyou.comLil Wayne's hitting the highways with Nicky Minaj and Rick Ross.​Ever since he made the break from Rikers back in November, we've been so hyped about Lil Wayne's inevitable trip across these United States that we could barely sleep. Or shit. Our goggles ... More >>

Lil Wayne Has Beef with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade

​It wasn't that long ago when you could spot Lil Wayne sitting front row at AAA rooting on Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat (one instance of which was immortalized in cake format), but apparently Wayne is a Heat fan no more. No, he's not pissed about "The Decision" like everyone else, he's just irke ... More >>

Our Rundown of Miami's Best Albums, EPs, and Mixtapes of 2010

The 305 in 2010 was so awesome that our heads totally exploded!​The swamps and warehouse squats, Carol City and Coco's Nightclub, South Beach and the megaclubs -- our city's music scene is the product of so many split-up, spliced, and remixed sources that any attempted overview of its output will ... More >>

Lil Wayne Spent Christmas in a Beat Up Ol' Camry Doing God Knows What

​Men looking to keep warm over the holidays with some quality tail they picked up on South Beach know their car game better be on point. Ho, ho, hoes only ride in those luxury import sleds. Women, well their trunk can be junky as long as they have junk in the preferred trunk. Take Lil Wayne's most ... More >>

Lil Wayne's I Am Not a Human Being

Lil WayneI Am Not a Human Being (Young Money/Cash Money)Lil Wayne will never stop repping his hometown of New Orleans -- just count the references to area code 504 or neighborhood Holly Grove in any given handful of tracks. But he seems proud to call Miami his second home. After all, it was here t ... More >>

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Welcome Back, Lil Wayne! Homecoming Party This Sunday at King of Diamonds

​It's not like you needed an announcement. But still ... Weezy F. Baby is free! After his eight-month stint on the big island, Mr. Dwayne Carter is now on another island -- a better, much prettier island called Miami Beach, where he claims residence and rules over the entire Cash Money Young Mo ... More >>

Lil Wayne's Free Today! Young Money Engineer Mike Banger Gives Us Tha Carter 4 Scoop

via weezythanxyou.com​Behind every good chart-topping song is a good producer, usually -- but behind all that, and often sticking longer-term with the artist him- or herself, is a good engineer. In honor of today, the Biggest Day In Hip-Hop History of 2010, the day Lil Wayne finally goes free, C ... More >>

Seven Songs We Hope Lil Wayne Puts on Tha Carter IV

Still shaken by the brutality and disappointment of election day, America now looks forward to only one thing ... Lil Wayne's release from Riker's Island! The time has come, Young Moneyians. Within hours, Weezy (AKA Dwayne Michael Carter) will be a free man, escaping the chains of the state prison ... More >>

¡Mayday! Drops Lords of the Fly Mixtape and Launches New Album Stuck on an Island

​¡Mayday! has been gearing up for the release of its latest album Stuck On An Island for the past year or so. According to the group, the album is an ode to making music in Miami and feeling separated from the rest of the music scene. Originally slated for a fitting May 2010 release, Stuck On A ... More >>

Lil Wayne's "I Am Not a Human Being" Video, Directed by David Rousseau

​With only a little more than a month until Lil Wayne gets released from Rikers Island, the Weezy buzz continues to build. Of course, it helps that while incarcerated, the reigning rap king has released more music than many of his free-man counterparts. The latest entry in the Wayne canon is I am ... More >>

28 Random Lil Wayne Lyrics for His 28th Birthday

Jonathan Mannion / Cash Money Records​Lil Wayne celebrated his 28th birthday yesterday at New York City's Rikers Island. And even though he's currently locked up (due back in a month or so), he and his Cash Money Records crew also used his birthday to release the digital version of Weezy's new alb ... More >>

Queen of Sissy Bounce Big Freedia at the Vagabond this Thursday

Tod Seelie via bigfreedia.com​Aside from being an unfunny overplayed joke, the term "no homo," as used by Lil Wayne, is hip-hop's admission of homophobia. When Lil Wayne says Tevin Campbell, No Homo, Black Rambo in "Feel Me," he really needs us to know he is not gay. He mans it up a little more by ... More >>

Lil Wayne vs. ¡Mayday!: Download "On Fire" Before the Hurricane Comes

​With Lil Wayne's street date -- November 5, bitches! -- only 41 days away, the world better start preparing for a monsoon deluge of strange and skeezy spitting over spacey creep beats. Now, we've already been warned about Mr. Carter's plans to make it rain with I Am Not a Human Being, Tha Carter ... More >>

Three New Pitbull-Featuring MP3s: "Gimme a Bottle" and Two More

photo via Fox Fuse​Before Lil Wayne went away, as they say, he was the omnipresent rapper. Lil Wayne was on everything, to the point that when our sister paper the OC Weekly ran this (what seemed obviously) satirical story saying he would collaborate on a High School Musical soundtrack, peopl ... More >>

Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane Video For "Steady Mobbin": Miami Real Estate Porn, Interesting Use for a Grammy

​Voila, the magic of editing! Just as Weezy was going away to prison, Gucci Mane was preparing to be set free. Yet somehow the rappers with overlapping sentences have managed to (finally) release a new video for their collabo track "Steady Mobbin." Yes, the song's already dominated the summer airw ... More >>

MP3: Lil Wayne's Rikers Island Verse on Drake Remix, Featuring Miami's Mike Banger on the Boards

CC by 2.0, via volliem on FlickrFree Weezy!​What, you thought a little thing like jail would slow down Lil Wayne? Weezy's now pretty much the Most Famous Nonviolent Criminal in Rikers Island, and a little time in the pen can't keep seemingly everyone's favorite rapper down. Voila, his latest relea ... More >>

Lil Wayne Mayday = BFFs in New "Da Da Da" Video Shot Atop Marlin Hotel

LIL WAYNE ROCKIN OUT WITH MAYDAY 2 from DERICK G on Vimeo.As we mentioned this past Friday in our weekly 305 Live local hip-hop news column, Lil Wayne may be physically behind bars, but still, he's everywhere. This past Memorial Day Weekend may as well have been Weezy Weekend, as a barrage of new vi ... More >>

Weezy Wire: Lil Wayne Sums up Mother's Day in Latest Letter From Prison

​Now you did it again, Lil Wayne. We're sitting here reading an incarcerated rapper's blog and getting all misty eyed with his message to the mothers of the world -- several of whom happen to be the mothers of Weezy's own children.On Friday, he posted "Letter #02: A Mother's Worth" to WeezyThanxYo ... More >>

Weezy Wire: Lil Wayne Posts First Sports Column From Prison

​For the most part, the now-incarcerated Lil Wayne is a rapper by trade. But now that he's behind bars, as we recently pointed out, he now has become a blogger using a computer terminal that probably would not allow him to stream "Lollipop."The latest item up for perusal over at WeezyThanxYou.com, ... More >>

Weezy Wire: Lil Wayne Writes Heartfelt Letter From Prison

​Music news didn't entirely dry up when Lil Wayne went to prison, and by the way, we have this great beat that we've been messing with in Garage Band that sounds a lot like crickets chirping. Fortunately, Weezy has enough people on the outside working for him that WeezyThanxYou.com could become a ... More >>

Rappers like Lil Wayne and T.I. have a right to bear arms

Another Tragedy of Lil Wayne's Incarceration

As America's gamblers scramble to piece together their NCAA brackets this week, we're realizing another tragic aspect of Lil Wayne's unfortunate incarceration: In his absence, there are no super celebrities to pick amazingly accurate tournament brackets.In this video from last year, Lil Wayne lays o ... More >>

Weezy Wire: Robert Christgau Owns Some 165 Lil Wayne Tracks

This man has as many Lil Wayne MP3s as your 14-year-old cousin​Wednesday is like the pre-Dr. Virgil Mongalo teeth day of the week over here at Crossfade (the sad news of Corey Haim's death is not helping). So, special thanks to sister blog Sound of the City for pointing our cranky mouse hand to De ... More >>

Meet Dr. Virgil Mongalo, the Dentist Who Made Lil Wayne Spit (Literally)

Dr. Virgil and Mr. Carter​Last week, I asked New Times Miami Music Editor Arielle Castillo if we should track down the dentist who gave Lil Wayne his eight root canals for the jaw-dropping sum of reportedly $150,000. Her response was rational: "doctor-patient confidentiality, right?"Fortunately fo ... More >>

Prunk TV: Lil Wayne Gets Locked Up Today, Cash Money Relocating to New York

Life is a fucked up game. You're winning Grammys, performing at sold -out arenas around the world, smoking blunts all day, wearing a million-dollar watch, and living on your own planet one minute. Next thing you know, you're arrested, then sentenced, and floating down shit's creek without a paddle. ... More >>

Cash Money Records, now based in Miami, again dominates the charts like it's 1999

¡Mayday! Films Video with Lil Wayne

Miami New Times Best Hip-Hop Artist ¡Mayday! recently got down with Lil Wayne for a video shoot and some well deserved national attention. Check out the video below. Thanks to the305.com for the heads up.

305 Photo of the Day: Lil Wayne, Heat Fan, Reproduced in Cake Form

​Here we have  a cake made to look like the head of popular rap artist and Miami resident Lil' Wayne, apparently made for the daughter of Kim Bassinger and Alec Baldwin, complete with licorice dreads and chocolate sunglasses.We're not sure if Ireland is a Miami Heat fan, but the Dwyane Wade s ... More >>

Top Ten Thursdays: The Top Ten Greatest Rappers Alive (Let the Haterade Rain....)

via lilwayne-online.comDid Weezy make the cut?​Self-proclaimed "greatest rapper alive" Lil Wayne performs Sunday at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise. That boast had serious clout when Tha Carter III dropped last year. But with Weezy's ruinous rock album Rebirth in delay hell -- latest news has i ... More >>

VIDEO: Birdman & Lil Wayne "Always Strapped" Video Shoot Behind The Scenes

Here's exclusive behind the scenes footage from the Birdman & Lil Wayne feat. Mack Maine video shoot for their song "Always Strapped." The song is forthcoming on Birdman's new album, Priceless. Footage shot by the "how is he everywhere at once" hip-hop photographer Derick G. Enjoy

Spin Magazine Names Lil Wayne Rock Star of the Year

This one deserves to be debated for awhile. In a somewhat shocking proclamation, Spin Magazine, recently named current Miami resident Lil Wayne as Rock Star of the Year. It's a nice gesture but you've got to wonder if he's really earned it?Before everyone jumps and curses Spin for trying to stir up ... More >>

Worst Lyrics of 2008

And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I ... More >>

Q&A With Keyshia Cole, Performing at AAA on Sunday

She's landed four Grammy nominations, seven number-one singles, and two platinum-selling albums, all in only three years. Thus, it's safe to say Keyshia Cole deserves a place in that illustrious echelon of female artists known as Divas, though she may not realize it yet. But not the "get me my Evi ... More >>

Q&A With T-Pain, Performing at AAA on Sunday

Many of today's hip-hop personalities and R&B royalty would have fans believe they've got the genuine Midas touch, but few in recent years can truly back that claim up. The Tallahassee-born T-Pain, however, is one of these chosen few. It's no wonder Akon snatched him up for his own imprint, Ko ... More >>

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