Shakira's new video for "Give It Up to Me" with Lil Wayne and Timbaland premiered online at 2 p.m., and these were my immediate thoughts: Love Shakira, but this apes Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous Girl." Seriously, is this Timbaland's fault...
The hearing concerning the validity of the DNA testing of a gun found on Lil Wayne's tour bus has ended. Why? Well, Lil Wayne pleaded guilty to attempted weapon possession. He's expecting a sentence of a year. Sentencing isn't scheduled...
Lil Wayne seems to be on track to become a touring moneymaker purely through sheer volume, this time stopping at Superpages.com Center on Aug. 23. He's bringing along Drake, Soulja Boy, Young Jeezy, Jeremih and Pleasure P. No R&B softening...
M.I.A. has been a critic's darling for some years now, but as under the radar as a Spin magazine cover subject could be. Why she would make her big American coming-out party into a peep show? That dress (?) she...
What an eclectic bunch. The Grammys announced its first wave of performers for the Feb. 8 telecast. Performers include Lil Wayne, Katy Perry (right), the Jonas Brothers, Coldplay and Kenny Chesney. Here's hoping none of them will try to duet....
This shouldn't surprise anybody. Rapper Lil Wayne sold the most CDs in 2008, according to Nielsen SoundScan. His Tha Carter III moved 2.8 million copies. Coming in at No. 2 is Coldplay with 2.14 million copies sold of Viva La...
Say what you will about the just-announced Grammy nominations -- and you know you have an opinion, as do I -- but you gotta admit those album of the year contenders sure are a politically correct bunch. Think about it:...
What happened to the radio? I find myself shamelessly singing along to songs that would typically make me blush if anyone heard. First, Katy Perry released her debut single "I Kissed A Girl" and I am not the only person...
Sketch comedian Affion Crockett (of MTV's Wildin' Out fame) has succeeded in making me LMBO repeatedly with this brutal video parody of Lil Wayne's "Mr. Carter." If you're at work, the first Wayne verse might get you called into...
I'll bet you thought that T-Pain already had a new album out, with his "featured" status on so many top songs and all. And all of his nominations at the BET awards. And how he's in every video. But, no...
Today, MTV (TRL) and BET (106 & Park) premiered the Lil Wayne video "Got Money," a song (and video) featuring the ever-present T-Pain. Dallas' own Play-N-Skillz produced the track. Not ones to ever be outdone, they're appearing in the video,...
Nas' untitled album just took over the top spot on Billboard's Top 200. It seems as if the controversy over the album's original n-word title didn't hurt. (Or could it be that everyone already has Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III?...
The first thing I noticed was the crowd. Not the one in the seats, mind you, the one on the stage. Lil Wayne brought a cast of, well, about a hundred, to play Nokia Theatre at Grand Prairie on Saturday...
Arty British rockers Coldplay sit pretty at the top of Billboard's pop albums chart for a second week. Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends sold 249,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In fact, the Top 3 discs...
Word is that Lil Wayne and T-Pain are talking about making beautiful new music together. (Insert sarcastic remark here.) It makes a lot of sense from a platinum standpoint, but ... I've been a big proponent of Weezie. His mixtapes...
Well, he did it. Lil Wayne sold 1 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, of his third disc, Tha Carter III, during its first week in stores. That means he beat fellow rapper Kanye West's 957,000 first-week sales figure for...
Thor gave Coldplay's latest CD, Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, a B-. Tell us what you think at musicblog.guidelive.com. Also let us know what you think of new music from Lil Wayne, The Offspring and more....
Following, well, the rest of the hip-hop luminaries with albums coming out this summer, The Game has decided to move the date of LAX back to the future -- July 22. This follows Missy Elliott and Lil Wayne with...
Not that we're trying to fuel another rapper feud... But, um, Lil Wayne could very well best Kanye West's first-week CD sales record. Wayne's Tha Carter III sold 423,000 copies its first day in stores, according to Nielsen SoundScan. To...
No, not an Al Green-Lil Wayne album, you silly thing. What a frightening duet that would be. Instead, look for each artist's album in May (or so they say). The release dates have been long-awaited and, in Wayne's case, oft-delayed....
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