In this episode of our web-series, we catch up with Justin Collie from Performance Environment Design Group. Hear him talk about all the visual elements of Lil Wayne’s America’s Most Wanted show, including the stage set, lighting, and video screens you’ll see on tour this summer.
In the video above, you can watch some footage of Lil Wayne performing “Karate Chop” live at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee on July 10th for a stop on his America’s Most Wanted music festival. Weezy F Baby switched up his lyrics to say “I apologize to the family of Emmett Till” instead of his previous bar.
Derick G releases some exclusive behind the scenes footage of Lil’ Wayne’s latest visual.
A few days after the Trayvon Martin murder trial verdict, Lil’ Wayne debuts his video for a record off of I Am Not A Human Being II. Directed by Eif Rivera, Lil Wayne takes us to his hometown neighborhood of Hollygrove, New Orleans where people are still recovering seven years later from Hurricane Katrina’s destruction in 2005.
Lil’ Wayne, T.I., 2 Chainz and more kicked off the America’s Most Wanted tour in Birmingham, Alabama and the latest Tour Passport vlog recaps what went down.
The full visual drops tomorrow. Kind of surprised that BET got the rights to premiere this teaser.
I’m sitting over here laughing at the Nas part of this graph. From Businessweek (it’s better to check it out in full over there, as the graph gets interactive and in more detail).
Fresh off of Jay-Z’s new album is the track Versus, on which he chides fellow hip-hop artists and their dubious tales of extraordinary wealth: “The truth in my verses, versus, your metaphors about what your net worth is.” Like Jay-Z, we’ve long been skeptical of just how wealthy some hip-hop stars claim to be, so we created a way to separate the truly rich from the loud-mouth lyricists.
Scroll over each bar in the chart below to compare specific lyrics with data from Forbes’s “Cash Kings of Hip Hop” and “Forbes Five” reports from the same year the given artist’s wealth-related rap song was released. You’re welcome, Hova.
Share Lil Wayne’s Tour Passport behind-the-scenes videos for a chance to win tickets, autographs, and more! In this episode of our web-series, we catch up with the legendary DJ Four Five. Hear him talk about his background, deejaying live with Lil Wayne, and what it’s like to deejay in the future. – 2DBZ
From TMZ:
Torion Sellers claims in new legal docs — obtained by TMZ — he auditioned for Lil Wayne when he was only 13 and Wayne immediately saw what he called Torion’s “amazing voice” and “God-given gift and talent.”
According to the docs, Wayne signed Torion to Young Money and promised to record and release an album by Spring, 2012. But tick tock, tick tock … still no album more than a year later.
Torion claims Wayne and company have abandoned him, and he wants out of the contract. He claims Young Money screwed up by forgetting to get court approval of the contract it signed with the kid, and on that basis Torion wants to 86 the deal.
Torion believes he will be snatched up by another record label, but no one will touch him until a judge rules the Young Money deal is invalid.
These vlogs are pretty damn boring, B. You almost miss the ratchetness that we’ve all been seeing….good to see that Shanell actually has a real job with YMCMB, though (above, his guitarist does the talent day thing below).
Previously: Part 1
Big Sean drops off his new single with Lil’ Wayne & Jhene Aiko off his new album, Hall Of Fame, set to drop August 27th. Produced by Key Wane.
I’m honestly too lazy to see if he announced the release date for this right now, but check out the official artwork for his upcoming single.
Lil’ Wayne shows us a breakdown of what goes into preparing for a Lil’ Wayne World Tour…..all without Lil’ Wayne. Did any of his fans actually watch this with any interest?
We’ve launched a contest for Lil Wayne’s upcoming US and European tour. We’re releasing videos in the Lil Wayne Tour Passport web-series of behind-the-scenes videos showing everything that goes into Wayne’s world-wide tour preparation. The Top Promoters across the entire video series can win tickets to the show or autographed lithographs.
In what was probably a very intended move, Lebron decided to quote a line from Lil’ Wayne when asks about being scrutinized during his MVP trophy presentation.
Some moving images of Ace Hood & Lil’ Wayne upcoming video for ‘We Outchea’. Trials & Tribulations is still due July 16th.
UPDATE: Lil Wayne has since responded to the above video in a message to Karen Civil:
It was never my intention to desecrate the flag of the United States of America. I was shooting a video for a song off my album entitled “God Bless Amerika”. The clip that surfaced on the Internet was a camera trick clip that revealed that behind the American Flag was the Hoods of America. In the final edit of the video you will see the flag fall to reveal what is behind it but will never see it on the ground. In most people eyes including my own who were raised in that environment, the Hood is the only America they know and the only America I knew growing up. I was fortunate from my God giving talents to escape the Hood and see the other beautiful places this country has to offer but most people who are born in that environment don’t get that chance. That’s their view of their America. That was Dwayne M Carter from Hollygrove New Orleans view of America. That’s who I’m speaking for in this song.
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The flag drops, his still-being-recorded performance scene continues, and the hickory smoked citizens go nuts. Wait until the video drops first.
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Directed by Eif Rivera, the visual to Wayne’s ‘God Bless Amerika’ was shot in Hollygrove, New Orleans and should be seeing the light of day soon. In the meantime, enjoy the above pics from the shoot.
Courtesy of Lil Wayne HQ.
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In lieu of the upcoming America’s Most Wanted tour, XXL has blessed individual and group covers for Lil’ Wayne, T.I. & 2 Chainz on their recent issue, which you can check out above.
Weezy speaks on scheduling mishaps with Jimmy Kimmel (he was supposed to be on the show a couple of times before…..his health being one issue), I Am Not A Human Being II, his tour with T.I. & Co., retiring after The Carter V and much more. Additional clips below.
Yup. D5. Tunechi. Dram. YM. Stay tuned. But pleaaaase.... b patient.
— DJ DRAMA (@DJDRAMA) June 10, 2013
It’s coming, and now it makes sense: we recently posted a mixtape by DJ Stevie J that featured a new freestyle over ‘Bugatti’ by Weezy (which you can check out below). Apparently, that was just a taste of what to expect.
In this ESPN report, Lil’ Wayne, Birdman, Flo Rida and others explain why Hip-Hop artists always head down to South Beach to sit court side at the AmericanAirlines Arena.
