The Rebirth Brass Band will compete for its first Grammy on Sunday when Rebirth of New Orleans will be up for the Best Regional Roots Music Album Grammy. The award is one of the hundred or so that will be given out during an afternoon ceremony dubbed the “pre-tel” or pre-telecast, which will stream live [...]
Tag Archives: Lil Wayne
YouTube du Jour: Mystikal
December 14, 2011 – 11:13 am
Yesterday, Cash Money Records announced the signing of Mystikal and his first track, “Original,” with guest spots by Lil Wayne and Birdman. “Gimme my mantle back,” he raps with his trademark flamethrower flow. It’s audio only and, strangely, features the image of Lil Wayne and not Mystikal. Still, it’s good to have him back. For [...]
Lil Wayne, Rebirth Brass Band, C.J. Chenier Get Grammy Nominations
December 1, 2011 – 11:12 am
The nominations for the Grammy Awards were announced last night, and Louisianans are scarce among the nominees. Lil Wayne is nominated for five awards—only Kanye West (seven), Adele (six), the Foo Fighters (six) and Bruno Mars (six) received more—but after Weezy, there are few nominees. New Orleans-born Oakland resident Ledisi was nominated in all the [...]
Critics Not Sold on Tha Carter IV, But Buyers Are
September 7, 2011 – 4:47 pm
Reviews have been tepid for Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV, but in its first week, it sold 964,000 digital and physical albums combined. Those numbers are just shy of opening week sales for Tha Carter III, and the 300,000 digital units sold in the first four days was a record for iTunes. That record was [...]
Lil Wayne, Sorry 4 the Wait (mixtape)
September 1, 2011 – 12:56 am
Lil Wayne’s 2011 was supposed to be historic. He got released from jail at the end of last year and was primed to make a Tupac-like, post-jail return that put all of hip-hop on notice. The promise of a more sober, more focused Weezy would make his Carter IV project an instant classic, especially after [...]
Track Listing for Tha Carter IV
August 12, 2011 – 12:00 pm
[Updated] We report all Lil Wayne new release news with a grain of salt considering his recent history of having projects delayed, but Tha Carter IV is scheduled to be released on August 29. Here’s the track list: 1. Intro 2. Blunt Blowin’ 3. MegaMan 4. 6 Foot 7 Foot f/ Cory Gunz 5. Nightmares [...]
Still No Carter IV, but Lil Wayne Drops “Sorry 4 the Wait”
July 13, 2011 – 10:14 am
Lil Wayne’s long-awaited Tha Carter IV was supposed to be out by now, but release of it was backed up to August 29 earlier this summer. To tide over fans, he has released a new mixtape, Sorry 4 the Delay, which is now available for download. Here’s the tracklist: 01 Tunechi’s Back 02 Rollin’ (Freestyle) [...]
YouTube du Jour: Mavis Staples and Mary J. Blige
July 1, 2011 – 10:06 am
In our new issue, Aaron Lafont talks to soul legend Mavis Staples. Tonight, she plays the Essence Music Festival at 9:15 in the Old School Superlounge with Irma Thomas. Here’s Staples singing the title track from her recent album, You Are Not Alone, accompanied on acoustic guitar by the album’s producer, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy. Mary [...]
YouTube du Jour: Mannie Fresh
June 19, 2011 – 6:16 am
Bonnaroo took place a couple of weekends ago, and while the most prominent New Orleanians present were Dr. John and the Meters (who performed the Desitively Bonnaroo album), Mannie Fresh was among the contingent as well. He joined Lil Wayne onstage among other things – see what he did on this, his video diary.
Curren$y and Lil Wayne: The Race is On
June 17, 2011 – 5:08 pm
Who can release the most music the fastest? Curren$y, a one-time protege of Lil Wayne, is as prolific as Weezy these days and releases tracks about as quickly. His Weekend at Burnie‘s “commercial mixtape” is due out on Warner Bros. June 28, but that hasn’t stopped him from releasing another track, “This is the Life.” [...]
