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 »
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Five Possible Conclusions To Draw From The Photos Previewing Chris Brown’s Forthcoming Video
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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Navigating Your Way Through This Week’s New Releases, From Madonna To Miranda
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 »
