Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter IV has set an Itunes record after selling over 300,000 downloads in its first four days of release. The disc is Weezy’s first since he was sprung from New York City’s notorious Riker’s Island Jail last year, after serving eight months on a gun charge.
Lil Wayne has announced that he’ll release his long-awaited album, Tha Carter IV, online at midnight on Aug. 29.
The annual MTV Video Music Awards are set for Aug. 28 and the first promo for the show stars saggin’ hip-hopster Lil Wayne. The Young Money boss, along with Adele and Chris Brown, is slated to perform on the show, which will air live from the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. The event coincides with the Aug. 29 release of Lil Wayne’s upcoming album, Tha Carter IV.
She’s already the daughter of a millionaire, but at just 12, Reginae Carter, is already “Stuntin’ Like Her Daddy” and pocketing some serious guap of her own.
With the help of a few Photoshopped tattoos, Lil Wayne is using his second grade cap and gown photo as the cover art of his upcoming album, Tha Carter IV. As devoted hip-hop heads will recall, the oft-incarcerated rapper used one of his baby pictures to front his platinum-selling 2008 blockbuster Tha Carter III.
Weezy drops this June.
Well — this is going to start some romance rumors. Hip-hoppin’ femcee Nicki Minaj gave her mentor and tourmate Lil Wayne a little somethin’ extra to look at when she treated him to a lapdance during their concert in New York on Sunday.
The native New Yorker took their I Am Music II trek to Long Island for the first of two dates at Nassau Coliseum and gave fans an eyeful during Minaj’s set, when she decided against pulling a lucky fan up onstage for her concert stunt – and instead chose to work over Weezy.
Touche!
The last time Jennifer Lopez hobnobbed with a hip-hopster, the Bronx native ended up in the middle of nightclub shootout. But that hasn’t stopped the newest addition to the American Idol judges’ panel from jumping back on the rap bandwagon.Jenny from the Block is teaming up for a collab with Young Money boss Lil Wayne.
Weezy, who recently replaced Nas as Jen’s favorite emcee, is featured on her forthcoming single “I’m Into You,” which appears on her forthcoming seventh album, Love?, due in May.
Life after Riker Island is bringing out the charitable side of Lil Wayne. The multiplatiunm-selling hip-hopster purchased a $11,000 motorized wheelchair for a disabled New Jersey woman after receiving heart-wrenching letters from her daughter during his eight-month stint behind bars.
Break out your earbuds, it’s time for a new banger from hip-hop impressario Lil Wayne.
On Wednesday, Weezy released the first single from his upcoming albumn, Tha Carter IV, dropping in Feb. 2011. The track is called “6′7″” and features Young Money artist Cory Gunz of the Bronx.
Dick Clark may have Drake and Willow Smith, but Carson Daly’s got The Harajuku Barbie.
Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj will headline NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly 2011 (Dec. 31 11PM-1AM) in New York City, the network said Monday.
