Articles tagged "lil wayne"

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The Carter (trailer)

by Tyler Gould

[9.Nov.09] :. Adam Bhala Lough’s documentary on Weezy F. Baby made waves at Sundance and is set for a DVD release on November 17th. Lil Wayne is certainly one of music’s more enigmatic megastars, and...

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M.I.A, T.I., Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, & Kanye West - “Swagga Like Us” live at the Grammys (video)

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Feb.09] :. Rap royalty joined the extremely pregnant M.I.A. for a turn through “Swagga Like Us” last night....

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Katie Couric Pre-Grammy Lil Wayne Interview Trailer

by Mike Deane

[1.Feb.09] :. It's hard to know what to think any more.

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Tha Giggle: On Lil’ Wayne

by Joseph Kugelmass

[19.Jan.09] :. Why was Lil' Wayne the single biggest musical phenomenon of 2008?

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Column: Pickin' Down the Line

CMAs and the End of Genre or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Kid Rock

by Bob Proehl

[9.Dec.08] :. This year's CMA winners point to a future where the only thing necessary to be classified as country is a desire to join in and sing.

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Music Review

Akon: Freedom

by Jordan Sargent

[9.Dec.08] :. Oft-maligned hitmaker's third album doesn't do much to convince the haters that he's not the hack that they think.

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Lil’ Wayne: Tha Carter III

by Drew Hinshaw

[20.Jun.08] :. Taken as conceptually provocative, anti-rational art, this is a monumental album full of powerful, self-defeating statements that obliterate rap's internal logic without offering too much more than indifferent bong logic in return.

 
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Jay-Z: American Gangster

by Mike Schiller

[9.Nov.07] :. American Gangster may never be seen as Jay-Z's defining moment, but it marks his comeback far more effectively than Kingdom Come ever even tried to.

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DJ Khaled: Listennn… the Album

by A. L. Friedman

[7.Sep.06] :. Heavyweight Miami DJ gets his hometown the attention it deserves.