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LIL’ WAYNE FEAT. EMINEM - Drop The World

March 15th, 2010

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Thanks to a bravura guest spot from Eminem, “Drop The World” is the lone redeeming track on the universally panned (metacritic.com) “Rebirth”, rapper Lil’ Wayne’s failed bid for rock credibility. Weezy kicks drugged-out rambles about leaving Earth on a spaceship and claims he’s going to “pick up the world and drop it on your head”. Continuing his recent hot streak, however, Em delivers scorching couplets that make Wayne-O look like an impostor. Lil’ Wayne should return to what he does best–and soon. Oh, wait…

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NICKI MINAJ FEAT. LIL’ WAYNE - I Get Crazy

February 11th, 2010

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“Ménage à trois” is a French phrase that originally described a domestic arrangement in which three people having sexual relations occupy the same household. In contemporary usage, of course, it typically refers to a three-way sexual encounter. A Nicki Minaj is an Afro-Indo-Trinidadian Young Money rapper/singer who looks like a dark-skinned drag queen dressed as Wonder Woman with something so deeply imbedded between certain teeth that she can’t stop perpetually licking them in photographs. While Nicki is apparently not allowed to make albums of original material, she’s a hellcat with the mixtape. “I Get Crazy” is from her recent “Beam Me Up Scotty”, with Weezy playing Dr. Spock.

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BIRDMAN FEAT. DRAKE & LIL’ WAYNE - Money To Blow

February 10th, 2010

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Man-love alert! “Like Father, Like Son”, the 2006 album collaboration between Birdman (Cash Money CEO) and Lil’ Wayne (Cash Money’s then-president) was a celebration of their label’s success. The main reason for that success was Wayne’s “Tha Carter 2″, of course; then Birdman turned around and basically sacrificed his weak ‘07 “5*Stunna” album as a placeholder while his “surrogate son” finished the oft-delayed “Tha Carter 3″. But these days Wayne’s fortunes are Cash Money’s, and times are good. So Birdman finally gets his day with “Pricele$$”, an album featuring “Money To Blow” and other tracks filled with hooks, infectious beats, and that trunk-rumbling weekend bass that mints Cash Money.

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BIRDMAN FEAT. LIL’ WAYNE & KEVIN RUDOLF - I Want It All

January 24th, 2010

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Cash Money label founder Bryan “Birdman” Williams is better known for slinging green–he once gave Lil’ Wayne $1 million on his birthday–than he is for rhyming. The NoLa native’s fourth solo disc, “Pricele$$”, is the rap equivalent of Scrooge McDuck swimming around in gold coins, Birdman using his don’t-give-a-f*ck drawl to brag about the Benz he bought his lady. The album will likely get listeners more excited about upcoming releases from Wayne and Drake, and perhaps that’s the point; Birdman eats off of those projects the same as he does this one. As he says so himself, “I Want It All”.

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KEVIN RUDOLF FEAT. BIRDMAN, JAY SEAN AND LIL’ WAYNE - I Made It

January 21st, 2010

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Miami songwriter-producer Kevin Rudolf is the first rocker signed to Cash Money Records, and he’s already made bank for his New Orleans hip-hop bosses: “Let It Rock”, an arena-ready electro jam with a fine cameo from labelmate Lil’ Wayne, blew up in ‘08. Unfortunately, the rest of Rudolf’s self-produced debut disc, “In The City”, was middling rock dressed in sleek digital clothes, so lazy you wanted to prod it with a stick. New non-album single “I Made It” enlists the whole Cash Money posse to pump some life back into Kevin.

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LIL’ WAYNE - On Fire

January 8th, 2010

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Making prominent use of Giorgio Morodor’s “Scarface” soundtrack by sampling Amy Holland’s “She’s On Fire”, Lil’ Wayne’s “On Fire” and the new “Da Da Da” are the first “Rebirth” tracks to emerge since the pop-rapper’s “rock” album was once again pushed back - to next February (which is more than 11 months after Weezy’s “Tha Carter III” follow-up was slated to hit shelves). Eminem, Pete Wentz, and Lenny Kravitz are all long-rumoured to be involved with the disc, but will we ever find out?

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BIRDMAN FEAT. DRAKE & LIL’ WAYNE - Money To Blow

November 23rd, 2009

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Man-love alert! “Like Father, Like Son”, the 2006 album collaboration between Birdman (Cash Money CEO) and Lil’ Wayne (Cash Money’s then-president) was a celebration of their label’s success. The main reason for that success was Wayne’s “Tha Carter 2″, of course; then Birdman turned around and basically sacrificed his weak ‘07 “5*Stunna” album as a placeholder while his “surrogate son” finished the oft-delayed “Tha Carter 3″. But these days Wayne’s fortunes are Cash Money’s, and times are good. So Birdman finally gets his day with the upcoming “Pricele$$”, an album featuring “Money To Blow” and other tracks filled with hooks, infectious beats and that trunk-rumbling weekend music that mints Cash Money.

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SHAKIRA FEAT. LIL’ WAYNE - Give It Up To Me

October 30th, 2009

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“I wanted to make sure that this album was very bassy and I wanted to concentrate on the beat,” says Colombian hip-wiggler Shakira of the new “She Wolf” collection. “But my music, to a certain extent, is very complex because I always try to experiment with sounds from other parts of the world.” “Long Time” is a percussive mid-tempo groove with a Roma-like clarinet bridge. She worked with renowned Egyptian percussionist Hossam Ramzy on “Why Wait”, a dancefloor scorcher by way of Led Zeppelin’s “Kashmir”. And for “Give It Up To Me” Shakira dabbles in the exotic taste of “purple drank” with Lil’ Wayne. “At the end of the day, it gives a nice flavor in your mouth.”

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CHRIS BROWN FEAT. LIL’ WAYNE & SWIZZ BEATZ - I Can Transform Ya

October 16th, 2009

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In Chris Brown’s first interview since pleading guilty to the felony assault of former girlfriend Rihanna, the singer’s mother leaped to his defence by discussing a household where she was regularly abused by Brown’s stepfather. Chris actually blamed the media for driving him and the Barbadian chanteuse apart, during the widespread media reports of the domestic violence case. On the music front, “I Can Transform Ya” is Brown’s first single since the incident, and his first since coming to the decision that “I want to be like how Prince and Michael [Jackson] were. They can cross over to any genre of music.”

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MADONNA FEAT. LIL’ WAYNE - Revolver

October 9th, 2009

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No “Hanky Panky”? Is this some kind of a joke? Given how obsessive her fans are, it’s a thankless task for Madonna to assemble a two-CD hit collection. But from the opening one-two of “Hung Up” and “Music”, “Celebration” kicks off with pure bliss and never lets up. It’s a dizzying, nonchronological spin through the Madonna years, years it makes you feel lucky to be living through. Her hitmaking genius is unmatched and–with the new Eurocheese blast “Celebration” and the Lil’ Wayne duet “Revolver”–undiminished. It’s almost enough to make you forget that they left off “Angel”, which is just plain crazypants.