“Facelift” (no tags)
Behold a brand new classic from Master Wayne, presumably from Rebirth. Enjoy.

[Raise one to: Ill Roots]

It has come to my attention that we’ve gone a full 3 weeks without a Lil Wayne post on The Rap Up. Please accept my apology, fellow Weezyianans. To compensate for my past missteps, here’s Keri “I Hate Beyonce” Hilson performing her monstrous single, “Turnin’ Me On,” on Jimmy Kimmel Live alongside the Greatest Human of Ever.

I love it when people overreact to apparent sarcasm.

Clipz Says:

“Rizoh, i’d seriously like to know who allowed you to run this blog with all the bullshit you’re spewing out. You couldn’t even come up with an educated rebutle so you just nuthug him even more, and not only compare him to legends of other music genres. But to say hes better than all of them combined?

How the fuck can you even compare one to the other when they’re seperated by decades and a completely different genre in itself.

I doubt i’ll actually get a dignified response from you, but do you consider yourself a journalist? I know this is your own blog and you’re entitled to your own opinion, but TELLING me that I “damn well know Weezy is the best” is pretty fuckin biased if you ask me.

Not even is that disrespectful to music itself, but its disrespectful to the black people to even think about putting Wayne is the same category as Marvin and Jimi.

Now do yourself and your fellow bloggers a favor and drink bleach. You do not deserve to be running this shit.”

Wu-Banga Says:

“Lol, here is the name of 8 rappers better than Lil gayne, RZA, GZA, O.D.B., Inspectah, Ghost Face killah, Raekwon the Chef, U-GOD, and The Method Man.”

Lil Wayne’s Ex-Girlfriend = Sexytime

Fat Joe (Ft. Lil Wayne & Ron Browz) - “Winding on Me”

Before you say anything ill-advised, keep in mind that I’m only posting this because it features the Bob Dylan of rap. Click at your own risk, I guess.

[Props: OnSmash]

Little Weezy thanks his fans for pushing Tha Carter III past a millie, a millie, a millie…

[Via: Dodger Hightop]

Just like Kanye’s fans did last September, Weezy’s stans have come out to support their man in full swing. Tha Carter III is said to have topped 700,000 in sales and is expected to arrive at or near the 1 Million mark in its first full week. That’s a lot of CDs exchanging hands. Carter III’s already the top selling album in Canada for the week ending June 11.

Keep in mind that Tha Carter II sold 1.4 million overall. Now, we all know that Carter III pales in comparison to the outstanding Carter II. So, what’s going on here? Well, the French coined a word for this phenomenon back in the 1400s: loyalty. In other words, if you’re a Lil Wayne hater there’s nothing he could say or do to make you buy his album. But if you’re a Lil Wayne fan, there’s nothing he could say or do to keep you from buying his album.

Update: In its first week on the market, the rapper’s “Tha Carter III” sells just over 1 million units. The last album to top that milestone was 50 Cent’s “The Massacre” in March 2005. [via Billboard]

Lil Wayne - “Mr Carter” (Feat Jay-Z)
Here’s the much anticipated collaboration between the two Carters: Dwayne Carter (Lil Wayne) and Shawn Carter (Jay-Z). The execution is better than some might expect. Too bad, I can’t say the same for much of the Carter 3. I mean, this jokestar even had the nerve to swagjack Beyonce on “Comfortable.”

“Mr. Carter” appears on Tha Carter III, out June 10.

[Shout out to nation, Ayinde, Banna, and everyone else who sent me this last night]

In keeping with my policy of not commenting on albums based on their tracklist, I’ll go ‘head and cross my fingers on this one. Having said that, I couldn’t help but notice track 2, “Mr. Carter,” featuring the real Carter. Shawn Carter. The same Carter that Weezy has been obsessed with for the last 5 years. It’s smart of him to usher in that big name collaboration so early on the album, because that’s the only way to ensure that the other songs get heard in full. But if it’s anything like “Hello Brooklyn 2.0″…

Tha Carter III tracklist after the gap. Read the rest of this entry »

Someone requested this awhile ago, so here you go.

• ‘Tha Carter II’ Chopped & Screwed

Graciously chopped & screwed by Michael “5000″ Watts.

Weezy knows something we don’t know, because he’s predicting that the world as we know it will expire 4 years from now.

“The world is about to end in 2012… ’cause the Mayans made calendars, and they stop at 2012. I got encyclopedias on the bus.

“The world is about to end as we know it. You can see it already. A planet doesn’t exist - there’s no more Pluto. Planes are flying into buildings - and not just the Twin Towers. Mosquitos bite you and you die. And a black man and a woman are running for president.”

What Weezy forgot to mention in that Blender interview is that the overwhelming success of mediocre artists like himself is also a sign of the times.

[Source: Starpulse]