Cantankerous actor (and newly appointed Oscar co-host) Alec Baldwin has denied responsibility for the Lil Wayne cake his daughter, Ireland, enjoyed on her 14th birthday: “No, I didn’t [get it for her]. I don’t know where that came from. But I will take that idea. I will give here a Little Wayne cake for her next birthday,” he told New York. Hmm, but it might be a bit passé by then! Perhaps next year you should just go with Drake’s? [Vulture / Earlier] MORE »
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official statements
Alec Baldwin Claims No Responsibility For Lil Wayne Cake
The nimbus of his fame
I Can’t Wait For Lil Wayne To Create A Whole Mixtape About The Cake Created In His Likeness
Possible title: I Can’t Eat My Face. (Click for a larger image.) MORE »
remixes
Lil Wayne’s No Ceilings has made its way online in full. And it features him rapping over “I Gotta Feeling”! Because that song will never, ever die. Otherwise, I’m still letting it sink in, but I do like the Romper Room moment during one interlude where he says that he made the mix for “you. You you you.” (Later in the interlude, he takes some time out to light a blunt, lighter effects and everything.) [2dopeboyz] MORE »
videodrone
Chris Brown Breaks Out His Toybox
Chris Brown’s “I Can Transform Ya” video takes the lessons of this summer’s Michael Bay blockbuster to heart, with people in the video changing into fire trucks (an unintentional homage to the semi-iconic video for “Cherry Pie”?), motorcycles, and sleek cars right before your eyes. (You’re supposed to say “ooh” there.) It’s not a groundbreaking clip by any means, but at least this video flagrantly abuses CGI to come up with something that doesn’t look like bad hotel-room art, right? Progress! Clip after the jump. MORE »
listening station
Lil Wayne Keeps Himself Busy
You think Lil Wayne has just been sitting around worrying about whether or not his upcoming prison term will cost him his hair? Think again. Apparently he has a new mixtape, No Ceilings, set to come out this week; one track that’s leaked from it so far is his freestyle over Jay-Z’s Rihanna/Kanye collab “Run This Town,” which is after the jump. MORE »
The Law
Lil Wayne Pleads Guilty To Attempted Gun Possession, Will Likely Go To Jail For A Year
This morning in New York, Lil Wayne pled guilty to a 2007 attempted weapon-possession charge stemming from a gun being found on his tour bus in July of that year; he’ll likely receive a prison sentence of a year as a result. Wayne had originally filed a not guilty plea in the case, but prosecutors’ decision to use a somewhat controversial form of DNA testing in order to prove that he’d handled the gun apparently resulted in him changing his plea. [AP] MORE »
upcoming releases
Five Possible Conclusions To Draw From The Photos Previewing Chris Brown’s Forthcoming Video
Today Chris Brown posted a collage of photos from the video shoot for his new, aggro single “I Can Transform Ya” to his blog, which is a strange hybrid of news about the image-rehabilitating singer and odd, non-Brown-related celebrity tidbits. (Whatever gets the pageviews, I guess.) After the jump, the preview image in full, and five possible conclusions about the video that can be drawn from it. MORE »
listening station
Looks Like Epic Figured Out A Way To Make The Shakira Record America-Friendly
Yesterday I mentioned that the new Shakira album She Wolf was irresistible to me because of its twisty, dancey strangeness, although figuring out a way to fit its globally minded disco into the American market was clearly seen as a tough task by her label—after “She Wolf” stalled on the Hot 100 it was summarily given a pushed-back release date, which is now slated for sometime next month. (Note that her promotional appearances on high-profile American TV shows—Dancing With The Stars, Saturday Night Live—are slated for this week.) However! If the new song from the soon-to-be-released American version of the album is any indication, Shakira’s label Epic is seriously going into Code Red mode when it comes to making this thing break both America and even. Ladies and gents, I give you “Give It Up To Me” by Shakira and Timbaland and Lil Wayne! MORE »
listening station
Chris Brown Wants To Be More Than Meets The Public’s Eye
Chris Brown released “I Can Transform Ya,” his first real single since the whole domestic-violence incident with Rihanna, yesterday. Backed by a noisy Swizz Beatz-supplied beat and assisted by a verse by Lil Wayne at his most nasal, Brown talks about how his American Express Black Card can turn the object of his desire into a globe-trotting label whore. Ah, romance. Clip after the jump. MORE »
upcoming releases
Weezer F. Baby: Lil Wayne Uses The Latest “Rebirth” Delay As A Chance To Bro Down With Rivers Cuomo
In the latest installment of “Lil Wayne’s Rock Album Is Really Never Going To Come Out, But At Least It’s Giving Me Something To Write About,” the tongue-twisting MC’s foray into the world of guitars, Rebirth, has been delayed from Nov. 24 to Dec. 15. Which I guess freed his schedule up enough to allow him to lend a verse to Raditude, the forthcoming bit of comment bait from Weezer! Rivers Cuomo talked to MTV News about the pairing: MORE »
