Wiz Khalifa: “Rolling Papers”

Album name: Rolling Papers Artist name: Wiz Khalifa Genre: Rap Released: March 29, 2011 Label: Atlantic/Rostrum ZME Rating: 6/10 Website: wizkhalifa.com I’m about to defend a Wiz Khalifa album. Well, kinda.  For the few of you who haven’t navigated away, hear me out. WK is a an average rapper at best, no one – myself included – is going to argue that.  But the key to appreciating any song by him is to understand that…

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Eminem: ‘Recovery’

Album name: Recovery Artist name: Eminem Genre: Rap Released: June 18, 2010 Label: Shady/Aftermath/Interscope ZME Rating: 6/10 Website: eminem.com  ——————— Generally speaking, Eminem doesn’t play well with others. Aside from the crew he runs with (or, used to…) – Dre, the Bass Brothers, D12 et al – he just doesn’t jive with too many other artists. If you discount the fact that Dre is the one that discovered him, and has basically served as…

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Taylor Swift sells one million copies in a week

Holy shit. Swift’s latest offering, Speak Now,  has done what only two albums in the last five years have done and only a dozen previously in history have achieved: gone platinum in one week’s time. She just beat out Tha Carter III with 1.047M for best first-week since 50 Cent’s The Massacre moved 1.141M back in 2005. Considering the era in which Speak is being released, it’s an impressive number  – to say nothing, of…

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Grizzly Bear + Lil Wayne = ‘2 Weeks ’til Prom’

Did I mention how much I love great remixes? The one bellow is mixed by The Soundmen, and it simply sounds amazing. Think Grizzly Bear meets Lil Wayne, erhhh… literally! Bet you never thought this kind of mash up could work. Well, think again, give it a listen and prepare to be astonished! [MP3] Grizzly Bear + Lil Wayne – 2 Weeks Til Prom And if you thought this was a coincidence, download the whole…

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New Lil Wayne video: ‘A Milli’

[tag]Lil Wayne[/tag]’s “Carter III” is doing pretty well on the Billboard, with a few million copies sold aldready, a million of which sold in its first week! Now that’s something and if you want to know how the man’s keep up with all the hype, then the video for his latest single off of Carter III, “A Milli,” might shed some light. First up: Rapping on the street, after all such a busy life doesn’t…

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New Lil Wayne video: ‘Lollipop’ (live at Jimmy Kimmel)

[tag]Lil Wayne[/tag] totally blew everybody over with his latest, recent studio effort “Tha Carter III,” the last album in the Carter trilogy and, most of all, what’s considered by most critiques the best rap album of 2008, so far. With a cover like this, you can’t really go anywhere but up. Anyway Lil Wayne paid a quick visit to Jimmy Kimmel a few nights ago, where he played a dazzling performance of Lollipop, one of…

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New Music Monday: 9 June

Hip-hop’s back in full throttle this week, with two highlight releases that will probably be in the top 10 rap list of the year. These are none other then the new records from [tag]Lil Wayne[/tag], with “Carter III,” his sixth full length studio album and the final take in the Carter trilogy, and [tag]N.E.R.D.[/tag], respectively, with their latest effort “Seeing Sounds,” the follow-up to the critical darling “Fly or Die.” However, my personal favorite and…

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New Lil Wayne cover?

I just had to post this! I can barely type from all the laughing. Apparently the above photo is the actual cover art for Lil Wayne’s latest upcoming album Carter III. The new record from the New Orleans rapper will land on May 13th via Universal. Who here also loled ?

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