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Wow….this is incredible.  I have my doubts about Rebirth, but this track is pretty amazing.  Wayne is ill and Em is crazy.  People on all the blogs are viewing this like a competition when it simply is just a dope artistic collaboration.  If you don’t like this song and you’re a fan of either of these guys’z previous music you need to fix your ears.  This makes me more excited for Rebirth, showing us that dopeness can still be a product of Wayne’s rock experiment.  In other news Wayne is rumored to be on Relapse 2. UPDATE: Just heard the whole album from the leak, a couple good tracks, but overall the CD is a disappointment.  I”m lookin forward to Carter 4 Wayne and for this rock phase to be put to the side.

Lil’ Wayne ~ “Drop The World” (Feat. Eminem)

Curren$y parted ways from the Ca$h Money Click a long time ago, probably based on creative differences, corporate offices constantly delaying his project, and / or not being able to put up with Wayne’s ridiculousness.  I was cruisin through YouTube last night blunted looking for some Curren$y clips and came across this vid of him, Wayne, and a whole bunch of drunken drugged out mufuckers chillin on the Weezy tour bus. Check it out below:

This reminds me of a different time in Wayne’s career, a time with just as much siuzzurp, but a little less rock haha.  So the question is: Where would Curren$y be if he was still signed to Young Money?  How would this have affected the now mainstream Young Money machine? Who knows…all I know is that I love what Curren$y is doing and love a lot of the stuff Wayne’s involved in too.  It’s a combo that i wish was still in existence.  Hopefully one day they will join forces again and produce some dope New Orleans music.  Below is Curren$y’s single off his never released Cash Money effort featuring Weezy and Remy Ma.

Curren$y ~ “Where Tha Cash At” (Feat. Lil’ Wayne & Remy Ma)

This documentary looks oh so epic.  Wayne tried to block it’s release, but it’s coming out next week. This is some real art right here; The chronicles of the Kurt Cobain of Hip-Hop.  Check out an excerpt of the review and preview clip below:

Hipsters, thugs, and assorted hangers on all crammed into L.A.’s Silent Movie Theater last night for a private screening of The Carter, the Lil’ Wayne documentary that’s had the Internet goin’ nuts for months – first because Wayne yanked his support from it, and next because there’s a dope trailer floating around that suggests the movie might, in fact, be amazing. Well, for once, trailers don’t lie – The Carter is a masterpiece, an incredibly vivid and detailed look into the life and process of a great artist.

At the beginning of the film, a title card apologizes for the fact that the filmmakers were never able to sit down and have a formal interview with Weezy, and that he withdrew his support from the film. Well, they shouldn’t have bothered. Number one, they have enough footage of other people interviewing Lil’ Wayne, not to mention in-depth Q&As with everyone from Birdman to Wayne’s best friend to Wayne’s adorable twelve-year-old daughter (who busts a startling good freestyle). Secondly, and more importantly, the fimmakers had an all-access pass to Weezy’s life for six months, shooting as a fly on the wall in all manner of intimate situations. You see Wayne dump a wad of money the size of a cement block into his suitcase. You see Wayne in concert. You see Wayne’s birthplace, Hollygrove, in New Orleans. You see Wayne on drugs, pounding sizzurp and smoking copious weed. There’s tons of comedy, intentional and otherwise (mostly intentional), and Wayne drops incredible science throughout; the best is one interview where he lists everything he’ll legalize, from prostitution to “putting cocaine back in Coke.” But the cinéma verité approach serves us best by showing the audience Wayne’s non-stop work ethic and endless creativity. In the hotel room, on the tour bus, wherever he lays his hat, Wayne is recording, pushing himself to new creative heights. You see him lay down his part for T.I.’s all-star posse jam “Swagga Like Us,” along with countless verses that may never even see the light of day – and they are all masterpieces: the guy simply sweats art. And a subtle, in-depth look into Wayne’s addictions – contrasting his public persona with how he addresses them in his songs – proves one of the most affecting sequences in the film. Best of all is when Weezy busts an impromptu speech to the camera in the midst of recording a song that could’ve come straight from Brian Eno: “All knowledge comes from repetition,” he states, and he’s right – certainly, as his work ethic makes clear, it’s at the core of his fame. Yet while he repeats his process over and over again – play live show, record, go to hotel, record, get on bus, record, repeat as necessary – everything that comes out of his mouth seems jarringly new. That’s what’s most awe-inspiring about this film’s depiction – despite everything that could hold Wayne back, from addiction to hangers on to the challenges of his environment, at this point, he seems incapable of making anything wack.

props to KSPACETV

This tape is fuckin dope.  Best mixtape Wayne since Drought 3. I also heard there are 8 more tracks that are gonna be released on Halloween.  I know it’s easy to hate on Wayne, but it’s hard to hate on this mixtape, every track is epic:

Lil’ Wayne ~ “No Ceilings” zip

UPDATE:

Wow and the Wayne material keep coming…No Ceilings drops on Halloween.  Shit’s lookin like it’s gonna be pretty epic.

If you haven’t heard already, Lil Wayne just pled guilty to gun charges in NYC to avoid up to 15 years in jail, and will be sentenced in February to go to jail for about 8 months.  Yes, Weezy’s into drugs; Yes, Weezy’s irresponsible: Yes, what is Weezy thinking half the time?!  However, this is total bull shit.  This charge is from when Wayne was in concert in New York, left the venue after a great show, and then was stopped in his tour bus by NY’s finest because they claim they smelled mary jane.  The cops got onto the bus and found a gun, then asked which one was Lil Wayne, and only arrested Wayne.  1. It is clear the cops wanted to humiliate and make an example of wayne. 2. You have an artist from the south who came up and put on a great show for the Empire state, only to get fucked by the man. 3. How are you gonna convict a man for a gun charge just because his DNA was on the gun! I’m sure he held it, i’m sure he was fuckin around with it.  But whether or not the gun was his, why is he the only one who is getting charged.  What if you were in a situation where someone you know, lets say a bodyguard in this case, had a gun.  I’m not into guns, but it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for someone to want to hold the gun just to hold it out of curiousity, or just to play around.  Seems that the pigs in blue not only want to get wayne, but every rich black rapper with success.  New York denies it, but there has been a lot of evidence that NYPD has a division just focused on bringing rappers down. Think about all of the rappers who have been targeted and arrested in NYC.  Besides the racist implications here; on a human level it is just so twisted it makes me sick.  This is just the new form of Police vs. African American stars (i.e. Ray Charles and all the other jazz musicians that have been targeted and arrested for drug use).  For people who claim racism is dead because of Obama being elected I say them: you are an ignorant individual out of touch with reality.  Racism is alive, and in some ways is more dangerous in our society since people are in denial of it’s existence.  Even though Kanye is an egomaniac and an idiot, you really think his VMA stunt would have been such a big deal if he was white?  Who knows, all I know is I hope Weezy puts out a lot hard tracks fueled by all this shit he’s dealing with.  Really lookin forward to his new mixtape: No Ceilings, and I hope Weezy F’ll be alright, cuz whatever hate people say about the dude, he has defined this new era of hip-hop, both good and bad; FREE WEEZY!!!

I don’t even know what the status of the I Can’t feel My Face LP is anymore from Wayne and Juelz.  This shit was supposed to come out years ago.  A little while back they put out the My face Can’t Be Felt mixtape, which I thought was a concoction of the songs that were gonna be on the CD that seems to be never coming out.  However, hip-hop heads on the web are convinced that those songs were just extras, and that there is still a lot of material from the two that hasn’t been released.  I guess we’re just going to have to wait and see if this music will be leaked or an official album will be dropped.  Either way, I love when these two work together.  When spitting on the same track they weave in and out of the beat, pushing their flows into your ears in a rhythmic pattern.  They overlap and synchronize their wordplay into a ghetto duet of similes and metaphors that make your facial expressions twist positions and change after every line.  I hope they work it out to put a full LP together and pitch it to the public.  This is the Lil’ Wayne that many hardcore hip-hop fans want to hear, so if you’re baggin on the new autotune-rock Wayne, definitely check this out.  I have a feeling the dam is about to break and there’s gonna be a flow of music leaked from these two.  Rebirth is out next month and Juelz’s LP is probably coming out at the end of the year or sooner. Here’s two new tracks from these styrofoam cup leanin muhhhfuckers: Juelz Santana & Lil’ Wayne ~ “After Disaster” Juelz Santana & Lil’ Wayne ~ “Rollers & Riders”

Every day the momentum for this young talent grows and grows.  Dude’s had like 20 radio interviews in the past 2 weeks, and his performances are showcased on almost every hip-hop blog site on the net.  Drake is the one to watch out for my friends…not Cudi, not Wale, not Charles Hamilton, not Mickey facts.  Don’t get me wrong, all of the artists I just mentioned are very talented.  However, there’s something about Drake that puts him above them all.  Whether it’s his lyrical content, the sound of his voice, or the swagger that he injects into the track; Drizzy is killin the game right now.  He’s in the studio workin on his album, touring around the world,  and enjoying the women and the caviar.  The coolest thing about the man is that he’s in no rush.  He is on point with his music, but doesn’t seem to be caving in from all the hype that surrounds him these days.  Here’s an excerpt from an MTV interview that he did recently:

“Me and [Kid] Cudi were talking at the [mtvU] Spring Break, just about so many people asking me ‘When’s that Cudi record coming? You and Cudi?’ Me and Cudi gonna make it work,” Drake promised. “Other than that, I got a song with ‘Ye and Wayne. I got a song: me, Wayne and Jeezy. I got some stuff coming to just keep the people entertained until that album hits the shelves, and hopefully my work on So Far Gone will allow me to at least break into the industry in an impressive way.”

So amped for his future projects; Kanyeezy, Jeezy, and Weezy, he makes it sound oh so easy.  If you haven’t been following Drake make sure to check him out; ‘09 is his year.

There is so much excitement and anticipation in the air you can smell it.  Slim Shady and Weezy both dropped some snippets this morning of some of their upcoming projects.  I have to say that Eminem hasn’t been delivering the heat with these album leaks, but this track’s beat sent chills down my spine.  Besides being amped for that, Wayne comes through with a pretty sick pizza slice of a track that’s probably off of rebirth. Enjoy the food: Eminem ~ “Underground” [Snippet] Lil’ Wayne ~ “Trigger Man” [Snippet] (feat. Madonna…lol) UPDATE: Eminem ~ “Bagpipes from Baghdad”

Hip Hop is such an interesting entity.  In one way it has pushed social consciousness in the right direction, but in another way has froze stereotypes and hatred solid into urban culture.   The above pic shows Birdman and Wayne kissing a couple years back as a part of a mafioso style celebration for Wayne’s accomplishments.  Lil’ Wayne is Birdman’s stepson, they are family, they got love for each other in a familial way.  But here we come down to the problem at hand in hip-hop.  The majority of people that have viewed this picture have changed their minds about Wayne and started to hate.  The homophobia in hip-hop is so powerful that not only does this picture make people think Wayne and Baby are gay, but also makes them hate on them as individuals.  The amount of ignorance in this situation could be cut by a knife.  First off, in many cultures in the present day, Men, especially in family situations kiss each other on the lips.  Beside culture wise, this was more acceptable in generations past.  Secondly, in mainstream media there are so many comedy skits and movies, homophobic or not, where men kiss and it is not considered to be gay, and not hated on by the public however homophobic they may be.  It seems as a result of homophobia in the urban hip-hop culture and how popular Lil’ Wayne is, people jumped on the hate wagon and decided that this was a big issue.  This affected how fans viewed his music, his art, and him as a person; which is fucked up on so many levels that I cannot even begin to write about them.  People need to chill out and stop dehumanizing everyone else and smarten up.  The real question is not if this was a sexual kiss, but why everyone gets a hard on when Wayne does something that people can twist to be gay.  It seems pretty hypocritical to me that people spend hours writing on the Internet about how gay Lil’ Wayne is.   Why is it that these people write about who they think are homosexuals all day, could it be that they themselves are in the closet. Think about it people, lets focus on the music and not on the media take-out high school rumor gossip bullshit.