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Music ♦ Posted 11/04/10
Lil Wayne Released From Prison
After serving eight months in New York's Rikers Island prison facility, Lil Wayne is finally a free man. The rapper was released from Rikers Island early Thursday morning (November 4) after eight months of a one-year prison term for a gun possession charge, despite a guard telling MTV the same morning that he had to wait another day due to "miscalculated" time. At 8:35 a.m.,...
Music ♦ Posted 10/28/10
Prison Captain Suspended For Hanging With Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne is about a week away from walking out of Rikers Island a free man, but his incarceration hasn't been without controversy. Most recently, a veteran prison captain was suspended after he reportedly paid the rapper an unauthorized 45-minute visit. According to reports, Capt. Raphael Collazzo has been suspended without pay for 10 days after security cameras caught him fraternizing with...
Music ♦ Posted 10/21/10
Album Charts: Lil Wayne Shoots Back To #1 With 'I Am Not A Human Being'
His album hit the Billboard 200 at no. 2 two weeks ago, and this week Lil Wayne's I Am Not A Human Being clawed its way back to no. 1 exclusively from download sales, reports Billboard.com. In its third chart week, the album moved from no. 16 to no. 1 with sales of 125,000, the largest leap to the top since January 2008 when Radiohead's...
Music, Videos ♦ Posted 10/19/10
Lil Wayne ft. Gudda Gudda: I Don't Like The Look Of It (Music Video)
Despite being behind bars, Lil Wayne continues to pop up in new music video, all of which he filmed before going away. Here's the latest. This is the official music video for the single, "I Don't Like The Look of It" featuring his Young Money artist Gudda Gudda. The song's off Weezy's recently released album, I Am Not A Human Being, which he plans to...
Music ♦ Posted 10/14/10
Lil Wayne Re-Surfaces With Letter #9 From Rikers Island
Despite telling fans last week in a letter that he'd no longer write and it was his final letter, due to his move to solitary confinement, Lil Wayne resurfaced this week one more time from Rikers Island. In his last letter, posted at WeezyThanxYou.com, the rapper explained that his new cell in isolation had limitations and that he wasn't allowed to write anymore, but he...
Music ♦ Posted 10/08/10
Lil Wayne Pens Final Letter To Fans From Behind Bars
Following reports that Lil Wayne has been moved to solitary confinement to finish out his sentence, the rapper chimed in with a new letter, via his WeezyThanxYou.com, on Thursday (October 7), saying it'd be his last until he touches down. In the letter, the rapper thanked fans for helping him get through his incarceration, and promised that in less than a...
Music ♦ Posted 10/07/10
Album Charts: Lil Wayne's New 'I Am Not A Human Being' Lands At No. 2
It was country singer Kenny Chesney's week on the Billboard 200, as he beats out new releases from two hip-hop heavyweights in Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane. While Chesney did his thing, so did Lil Wayne with I Am Not A Human Being. The set opens at no. 2 with 110,000 copies sold ... digital copies that is. The set was initially intended as a...
Music ♦ Posted 10/05/10
Lil Wayne Sent To Solitary Confinement For May Write-Up
Lil Wayne was banished to solitary confinement at Rikers Island on Monday (October 4), reports New York Daily News. The confinement punishment stems from a previous prison write-up in May, when correctional officers found contraband in his cell. During a surprise search, officers found a charger and ear phones for a watch that doubled as a digital music player, items the rapper was not authorized...
Music ♦ Posted 10/05/10
Lil Wayne's Post-Prison Celebrations To Go Down In Miami, Says Birdman
Lil Wayne's countdown to freedom is inching closer and closer every day. It's actually next month, tentatively on November 4, and his Cash Money Records family is anxiously awaiting his arrival. There were rumors that Weezy would hold a concert at New York's Madison Square Garden the day after he's released. However, Birdman says it's likely it will take place in...
Music, Videos ♦ Posted 10/01/10
Eminem ft. Lil Wayne: No Love (Music Video)
Eminem drops yet another music video for his latest album, Recovery. This time, he releases the official visual for his Lil Wayne collaboration, "No Love." In the clip, Em gives victims of bullies -- which he was one of, as he has rapped about numerous times. Lil Wayne's part was filmed before being sent to prison. Later in the video, both hit the studio with...
Music ♦ Posted 09/28/10
Lil Wayne Drops Letter #7: Blessed Day of Mine (Birthday Blog)
As he approaches the home stretch on his year prison sentence (on November 5th), Lil Wayne celebrates his 28th birthday from Riker's Island ... and once again updates fans with a new blog called "This Blessed Day of Mine." In his seventh letter, Weezy reveals says he's still passing his time by working out, playing Uno, and listening to ESPN Radio and/or slow jams on...
Life / Culture, Videos ♦ Posted 09/17/10
Lil Wayne Talks Black Light Tattoos, Shows Off His
Everybody know Lil Wayne is inked up from head to toe, but the incarcerated rapper has some ink you can't even see ... until you put him under a black light. In this recent clip, upped by photographer / videographer Derick G (DerickGBlog.com), Weezy talks about and reveals his new black light tattoos -- one is lips on his neck and the others are stars...
Music, Videos ♦ Posted 09/16/10
Lil Wayne: I'm Not A Human Being (Music Video)
Lil Weezy is locked up, but the music keeps coming. As reported in July, Wayne's Young Money label are prepping the release of an EP, titled I'm Not A Human Being, to drop on his birthday later this month. Well, the first official music video for the title track from the project is here. This is the official visual for "I'm Not A Human Being"...
Music ♦ Posted 09/13/10
Will.i.am, Lil Wayne Take Home Big Honors At 10th BMI Urban Awards
BMI held their 10th annual Urban Awards on Friday (September 10th) at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre, drawing the likes of Ray J, Rick Ross, Master P and his son Romeo, Jay Sean and more. During the event -- which was hosted Ray J -- BMI (Broadcast Music, Inc.) saluted songwriters, producers and music publishers of the most-performed R&B, rap and hip-hop...
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