Another couple of days, another couple of million new Lil Wayne-related mp3s. I'm so motherfucking shocked I could write a blog post. Hey, mixtapes!Remember Friday, when I said that one of the bigger trends in blog-era hip-hop is "stuff that sounds like M.I.A. or Santogold"? Well, here's another one. Only instead of sampling Santogold's "Shove I...

Canadian aspiring teen idol Aubrey Graham, who plays disabled high school basketball star Jimmy Brooks on "Degrassi: The Next Generation", also raps and sings under the name Drake and somehow got himself signed to Lil Wayne's Young Money Records. And no, I don't know how stuff like this happens. The world is a weird place, and when you start wor...

After his tremendous 2008, Lil Wayne deserves a victory lap; unfortunately for us it's full of Auto-Tuned warbling and mediiocre Young Money Entertainment signees.read more

It's not a great sign that the immediate standouts from Lil Wayne's hotly anticipated new mixtape are spoken-word rants: Wayne's thoughts on hooking up with Sarah Palin, his declaration to other rappers that "to you, this is your job-- to me, this is my life." Dedication 3, the latest installment of the New Orleans rapper's Da Drought-rivaling m...

In the immortal words of Usher, "I gotta do it for the ladies/ And I gotta keep it hood." Lil Wayne wants to make love in this cop car on "Mrs. Officer", a Deezle-produced, guitar-based track from Tha Carter III that brings on r&b crooner Bobby Valentino for a police-siren hook that's a heck of a lot catchier than the screaming sirens c...