Tomorrow’s release-date schedule is pretty glutted with albums that—gasp!—might get people to actually spend money on music, from Madonna’s latest greatest-hits collection to new albums by the spunky likes of Miranda Lambert and Paramore. In order to help you navigate through this week, might I suggest a friendly game of Buy/Download/Kill, in which each album receives one of the three fates outlined by the game’s title? My personal preferences after the jump. MORE »
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Lloyd And Lil Wayne Are Drug Buddies
The collaborations between Martian MC Lil Wayne and silky-smooth singer Lloyd have never ceased to thrill me, so when I heard the news that Weezy had added himself to Lloyd’s girls-as-drugs metaphor “Pusha” I got really excited. And the song mostly delivers, with Lloyd’s lighter-than-air voice and Wayne’s twisted rhymes meshing well enough to make me hope that their “Best Of Both Worlds” all-collabo album will eventually be a reality. Oh, also? The final mastered version punctuates the unfortunate line about Kurt Cobain with a gunshot. Yes. (Lil Wayne thankfully eschews Nirvana-frontman references in favor of talking about drugs a lot. Thank God for small favors, right?) Clip after the jump. MORE »
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Madonna And Lil Wayne Go To The Gun Show
The Madonna/Lil Wayne collaboration “Revolver,” which is going to appear on Madge’s forthcoming greatest-hits package Celebration, has made its way to the Internet in higher quality than previous leaks. The song is a jaunty little romp with enough references to gunplay to make me think that it’s not going to be released as a single, what with everyone being afraid to even think about bearing metaphoric pop-music arms these days. Clip after the jump. MORE »
Lil Wayne made $42 million and drew nearly 804,000 people between Dec. 14 of last year and his show Saturday night, making him Billboard’s largest-grossing hip-hop arena draw. Fun with math: Those numbers work out to an average per-customer income of $52.23. [Programming Notes
Vh1 Can’t Stop Getting Behind Bret Michaels
Scarred by its forays into tawdriness going a little too far, Vh1 has put out a press release touting its fall and winter schedule, which is actually anchored by more than one show that’s tangentially related to music. (This must be why its headline uses the word “rockin’” as a verb.) Perhaps the most interesting among them to Idolator readers is the rebirth of Behind The Music, the docudrama series that became so iconic, it inspired multiple parodies. (Being ideal fodder for weekend days spent on the couch, whether alone or in a Beavis And Butt-Head-ish situation with friends, surely helped.) What’s notable about BtM’s forthcoming six-episode run is that a full 33% of its shows will be reruns, of a sort. MORE »
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Drake Invites The Big Guys Over For A Pickup Game
Drake’s all-star collaboration “Forever,” which will appear on the soundtrack to the forthcoming LeBron James documentary More Than A Game, made its way online last night, and as you might expect of a track where the Degrassi alum enlists the help of Lil Wayne, Kanye West, and Eminem, it’s a fairly spectacular collision of boasts. Eminem’s verse is probably the tour de force of the lengthy (six minutes!) track, thanks to him seemingly still feeling the flame that was lit under his butt by Mariah Carey all those weeks ago. (I guess we’ll have to wait for that Foreigner cover to come out in order to properly deduce who “won” the beef between the two of them.) Stream after the jump. MORE »
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Madonna Is Now Hung Up On Lil Wayne
The final track listing for Madonna’s forthcoming greatest-hits comp Celebration has been released, and apparently one of the new tracks on the album will be a collaboration between Madge and Lil Wayne. The song’s a “True Blue”-gone-dark ditty called “Revolver,” and a very low-quality rip of it apparently leaked all the way back in May, as evidenced by the YouTube above. Unless that track was all part of an elaborate fake-out, and the real collab will be on a song of Weezy’s called “Hot Revolver,” which was released to iTunes back in March as part of the rollout for the months-delayed rock album Rebirth? I embed, you decide, after the jump. MORE »
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A New Reason To Pray For Omarion: He’s Been Dropped From His Label
R & B singer Omarion has been dropped from the roster of Lil Wayne’s Young Money Entertainment, which is currently the home to Drake and Bow Wow, according to SOHH. “May God be with him and his future endeavors,” read Young Money president Mack Maine’s official statement, which oddly echoed the “pray for Omarion” press release that somebody released when the singer happened to be in London at the same time as some terrorist attacks in 2005. (Coincidence? Hmm.) The rumor is that the former B2K member got the boot for leaking a collaboration between him and Lil Wayne. Could the song in question be “I Get It In,” which mysteriously surfaced online earlier this week? Clip after the jump. MORE »
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It’s No Surprise That The Summer 2009 Disabled List Has Grown Again Today
Two more additions to the pile of injuries plaguing this summer’s working musicians. First, Lil Wayne has canceled a few Canadian stops on his summer tour because of an unnamed illness; his jaunt with Young Jeezy, Soulja Boy, Pleasure P, and Jeremih will resume with Thursday’s date at the Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Denver. Meanwhile, American Idol grunger Chris Daughtry has announced via Twitter that he’s been diagnosed with viral laryngitis, and has been forced to postpone tonight’s show in Tempe, Ariz. However, he did announce his fall arena tour almost immediately before this revelation—perhaps to soften the blow? Daughtry dates after the jump. MORE »
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The Internet Gets So Bored, It Decides To Revive The Old “Lil Wayne Shot” Rumor
Like the Timex Social Club, I spend a lot of time lamenting the rumors that surround me every day. How do they get started? And where do they get crazy? In Truthmongerer, I’ll try to suss out the kernels of truth in the rumors that are taking up airspace in gossip columns, blogs, and our tips inbox.
THE RUMOR: Oh no, popular MC Lil Wayne got shot in New Orleans! Even though his tour was traveling from Philly to Long Island to Virginia Beach over the weekend.
TRUTH THRESHOLD: 0%. Again. MORE »
