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*Lil Wayne graces the cover of GQ’s upcoming “Music Issue” (alongside Eminem and Keith Richards) and opens up about a number of topics inside, including how much he misses drugs and his relationship with his biological father. The rapper has often spoken openly of his marijuana usage, and was rumored to regularly take codeine cough [...]
*Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV” sold 964,000 in its debut week for the second-best first-week sales of the year, according to Nielsen SoundScan on Tuesday. Only Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” sold more this year. That album hit No. 1 with 1.1 million sold thanks in part to a one-day offer from Amazon.com to buy [...]
*Three weeks after Jay-Z and Kanye West set a single-week album sales record for iTunes with their “Watch the Throne” CD, Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV” has set a new bar, selling over 300,000 downloads in its first week of release. “Throne,” which was only available on iTunes the first four days of its release, [...]
*Lil Wayne is recovering after gashing his head while skateboarding in St Louis on Sunday. The rapper was at a suburban area skate park yesterday (Aug. 21) before his performance at the outdoor Verizon Amphitheatre, reports the Associated Press. After hitting his head there, he showed up at the DePaul Health Centre’s Emergency Room accompanied [...]
*Rap giants Lil Wayne and Drake will join Chris Brown, Jill Scott and Alicia Keys as performers for this year’s BET Awards ’11, the network announced today. Lil Wayne, who is set to release his ninth album “Tha Carter IV” this August, received five nominations this year in the “Best Collaboration,” “Best Male Hip Hop [...]
*Lil Wayne has been forced to cancel plans for a U.K. tour this summer after British immigration officials refused to issue him a work visa due to his criminal record. The rapper is currently on the road in the U.S. with Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross and Travis Barker, as part of his I Am Still [...]
Lil Wayne pays homage to the film Oscar nominated film “Inception” in his music video for “6 Foot 7 Foot,” which hit the web this morning (Mar. 3) before it officially premieres tonight on MTV. The Hype Williams-directed clip kicks off by spoofing “Inception’s” bathtub scene, with Weezy receiving the dunk when his associates are [...]
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