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-6 posts tagged "Lil Wayne"
Ryan Israel | Monday, March 30, 2020
Drake is the most ubiquitous, influential and popular music artist of the past decade. Drake is The Beatles. He has plenty of flaws — Google ghostwriters, hiding a child and more — and some really not great music. He’s also had some stellar feature appearances, outstanding songs and a few good albums. To stir up
Chase Cummings | Wednesday, April 3, 2019
In the early 2000s, hip-hop was overwhelmed with bling-flaunting artists like 50 Cent, Juvenile and Lil Wayne who rapped about chains, sex, drugs, money and guns. Much of the music of that era may as well have been copied and pasted from one artist to the next, for when 50 Cent released “In Da Club,”
Danny Liggio | Wednesday, October 3, 2018
There is no more of that budding excitement in Lil Wayne. The last time he made an appearance in popular culture was with his feature on DJ Khaled’s chart-topping single, “I’m the One.” In a slurred and mumbled verse, Wayne chops out “I’m the best yet, and yet, my best is yet to come.” He
Miko Malabute | Monday, April 20, 2015
I’ve been away from the hip-hop game for a long time. I don’t keep up with much of who’s hot, who’s not anymore; I struggle to listen to the increasingly large amount of new releases that come out out seemingly every week. As a matter of fact, the closest that I’ve gotten to the hip-hop
Meghan Cleary | Monday, March 2, 2015
Big Sean’s “Dark Sky Paradise” can be consecrated as one of his best works to date. The album’s strengths are emphasized by its phenomenal features, while its weaknesses remain well-masked by those same sidekicks. With names such as Drake, Jhené Aiko and Kanye West, Big Sean was aided in putting out a project that resulted
Miko Malabute | Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Steph Wulz Whether you were a fan, a passive listener or an adamant opponent, there was no way a week would pass during the latter half of the 2000s that you or your colleagues didn’t at least mention Lil Wayne. You would probably be hard-pressed to remember a time you, your friends or even your