Posts Tagged ‘Lil Wayne’

EPIC FAIL: @NbTpain “The Return of Freaknik” Is The Execution of Ignorance!

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Public outrage has reached a fever pitch over T-Pain’s Cartoon Network premiere of “”Freaknik: The Musical”. I’ve made a conscious effort to resist from commenting on the coonery and buffoonery because I didn’t want to promote “negro news” to my audience. However after checking out an story on Essence.com, I reconsidered my position.

For me, the fact that the Adult Swim’s audience heard “nigga,” “nuts,” and “crackers” within the first few minutes of the special instantly turned me off. Typically I live by the “live-and-let-live” philosophy. And while, I don’t consider myself to be a prude by any means, the fact that artists like Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Kelis, T-Pain and more would attach themselves to such a vile and pointless program is beyond upsetting.

If you didn’t see the program fret not, Rodney Ho at the AJC has the perfect summary:

The plot revolves around the Sweet Tea Mob, four Florida rap dudes (T-Pain is from Florida but was too young to partake in the real Freaknik) who drive up to Atlanta to participate in a Freaknik “Battle of the Trillist” contest.

Early on, a drunken old dude in a wheelchair explains to the rappers what the party was about. “Everywhere you looked, you saw booty-shaking. Booty in the clubs. Booty in the street. Booty in the trees! People so inspired by positivity, they just got butt naked on their candy-colored cars. It was like a dream!”

What happened? “Crackers come and shut it down. Police got in the street to scare us, started arresting people… then they killed Freaknik… They couldn’t kill the soul of Freaknik. They say it lives on waiting to return.”

They then summon the spirit and he arrives. “Freaknik’s back, baby!” Freaknik yelps. “Spreading the love as I always do!” He sets up the rap contest with the winner getting a lifetime supply of “money, clothes and ho’s.”

But there’s a group called the Boule who aren’t happy with Freaknik. They are the “top 10 percent” who keep the other 90 percent of blacks down. They also look suspiciously like Oprah Winfrey, Jesse Jackson, Bill Cosby and Al Sharpton, to name a few. “If Freaknik becomes too popular,” said the faux Cosby, “then we could lose all influence on black culture!” They try to stop the event.

The Sweet Tea Mob (featuring voices of Cee-Lo, Young Cash, DJ Pooh and Rick Ross) drives in a van to Atlanta but get diverted by some hot women at a gas station. They end up meeting with rival rappers, get in a fight, then run. They end up taking a bad turn on their way to Atlanta and end up in New Orleans. Lil Wayne plays a Jesus-like figure there, who inspires them to make it to Atlanta with the proper attitude. He even give them a Lamborghini after their van is stripped. But they run their car over a cliff. Eventually, some black skydivers give them a ride to their destination (think”Honeymoon in Vegas”).

Though Rodney’s take on the cartoon was accurate for the most part, nobody can ignore the underlying “coonery” tone of the program. And if you think I’m overreacting, checkout what Shirea L. Carroll from Essence had to say:

So, what’s the problem? Well, it wasn’t the storyline that caused my displeasure, it was the details. For example, featuring Trap Jesus, voiced by Lil’ Wayne, a pot smoking drug deity that wants all to live by the Ghetto Commandments, one of which is to “man up or bitch out.” Another example, showing the Freaknik ghost televising his charity organization, ‘Save a Stripper’–what he not so amusingly pronounced as an act of “positivityism,” after telling a woman she looked like a biscuit. The show even went as far as to depict President Obama stepping down from office, handing over his presidency to Freaknik so he could “get this mother f-cker crunked,” adding to the many offensive references andsatires that had our Civil Rights leaders popping up out of their graves in search of T-Pain.

I realize that some of you may argue why we’re not upset at the network and not the program. And to that I encourage us as a people to STOP pointing the finger at others and start point them at ourselves. All the laughs were at the expense of who we are as a people.

Unfortunately, the suits at networks aren’t abreast to such sensitive topics such as race and race relations as it relates to their programing. And that misunderstanding only increases when you have black people selling them programing that paints us as nothing more then a bunch of hooligans.

Shirea L. Carroll made a excellent point in her peice on this topic that perfectly narrates my anger on such nonsense:

The show aired the Black community’s dirty laundry on issues like Black on Black violence, lack of ambition amongst our youth, unwanted pregnancies, religious corruption, and constant refusal to accept gays in our community. While these issues do need to be addressed, it was the execution that was ignorant, to say the least, and painfully horrific to watch.

I couldn’t have said it better myself. #EPICFAIL to all parties involved with this bullshit. I hope you all flop off the face of the planet.

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Diddy Drops Dirty Money Members For Collabo’s W/ Drake, Lil Wayne & Kanye West

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

In yet another example of how talentLESS Sean Diddy Comb’s is,  apparently his unanticipated “Last Train To Paris” is about to lose two of its co-pilots.

According to Boombox.com:

‘Last Train to Paris’ was initially scheduled for a September 22, 2009 release date, but it appeared that Diddy got cold feet about releasing the extremely Euro-club-themed record. Not only did he push it back several times, the rap mogul moved the album’s home to Interscope Records, and added hip-hop guest appearances by Lil Wayne, Drake and Kanye West.Though Dirty Money may no longer be prominently featured on the release, they have appeared in several videos from the ‘Last Train,’ including ‘Angels’ and ‘Love Come Down.’

In addition to the June 22 drop date of the album, Diddy has confirmed that the collaboration with Kanye West, ‘I’m so Appalled,’ and the Drake-featured ‘Hurt’ will both be on the album.

An artist’s talent is not measured by how many features they can get on their project. Combs is once again showing us that though he’s a branding genuis, when it comes to music NOBODY GIVES A F*CK. Drake, Lil Wayne and God himself couldn’t make the people give a shit — so please STOP. #enough!

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Lil Wayne Is In Jail… FINALLY!

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Lil Wayne is finally in jail according to the buzz on the streets. Personally I’m soooo over this story, I turn to The New York Times:

Wayne was greeted by a chaotic scene in front of a Manhattan criminal courthouse on Monday afternoon.

As his black, tinted-out sport utility vehicle pulled up to the curb, more than 100 fans and photographers swarmed. When he stepped out, the mob followed him all the way to the door, some people tripping and tumbling, many screaming. It resembled a running of the bulls. Court officers pushed people to the side to clear a path.

At the door, the crowd parted slightly, and out strode a sullen-faced Lil Wayne, his head hanging and covered with a hood. [NYT]

Isn’t it funny how we can’t get people to get involved in their own communities by providing service, becoming a mentor, etc. But everybody can show up to watch a goon rapper go jail for violating the law.

Don’t misunderstand me, I’m a Wayne fan with his music. But his music only. All that other stuff, I can take no part in. You should do the same #imjustsayin.

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Breaking Blog: Lil Wayne Is NOT In Custody!

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

There’s no jail for Lil Wayne just yet.

Apparently the location where Wayne was set to sever his 1 year bid for illegal guns caught fire today –thus pushing back Wayne’s fate yet again.

I hear he may do an impromptu performance with Jay-Z tonight at Madison Square Garden.

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Video Scoop: Lil Wayne & Young Money – “Roger That”

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Lil Wayne and his Young Money crew have taped another video — one of ten Wayne’s reportedly completed before heading to Rikers Island– titled “Roger That”.

Eh..

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Lil Wayne Has The Breath of DEATH!!!!

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Just days before Lil Wayne is set to do his one year bid at a NYC jail, it’s being reported that his much needed dentistry work resulted in the pint-sized rapper  having to endure a staggering eight root canals in one sitting.

TMZ is reporting that the horrendous ordeal took place on Tuesday, February 16th where several tooth implants were redone, more implants added and the few real teeth he had left repaired.

Clearly Lauren London, Shanell, Nivea and LaToya have stooped to an all new low with their taste in men because there is absolutely no way that one could go through such an oral ordeal after all this time and not have the breath of death!!

There isn’t a tic-tac or altoid in the world that can cover that up. And he’s got golds? Shivering… If I were Wayne I’d have them wire my mouth shut while in the big house. At least that way nobody’s gonna shove a d*ck in it. #Imjustsayin.

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Lil Wayne: So Much For That Dentist Excuse..

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

So much for that dental work excuse..

Lil Wayne and Yo Gotti shot a video out of Los Angeles recently. To be fair I’m not sure if was shot this week or not, but my spirit tells me it was very recent.

Not much of a story, so much as a random thought.

Props to Rapradar

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Breaking Scoop: No Jail Time For Lil Wayne Till March 2nd!

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Rapper Lil Wayne was scheduled to be sentenced today in a plea agreement for that illegal gun charge from last year, but thanks to his crafty defense attorney’s Wayne won’t be seeing a jail cell any time soon.

According to the Associated Press the leader of the Young Money crew won’t have to report back to court until March 2nd due to some much needed dental work:

The Grammy Award-winning rapper’s sentencing in a New York City gun case was postponed Tuesday. His lawyer says the rapper needs to finish a string of recent surgeries for a dental problem before he goes to jail.

His sentencing is now set for March 2, and a judge says it won’t be put off further. [Associated Press]

Such is life. Clearly being a celebrity has its privileges. I’m not mad one bit. Two questions though: Do we have to endure another going away party? And does Wayne’s extend couple of weeks of freedom mean that he and Shanell can work on that rumored baby she’s allegedly DESPERATE to create??

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Wretched Whore Scoop: Is @Shanell_SnL Pregnant With Lil Wayne’s Seed?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

On June 13th 2009 I reported on a story about Young Money’s Shanell creeping with Lil Wayne, while he was still in a relationship with Nivea. The eccentric “artist” publicly denied such claims, but that didnt stop the hood rock and roller from taking public pictures of an imtimate nature with the most popular MC in the game currently.

So funnily enough when a rumor fell on my desk today that Shanell is preggers by Lil Wayne, I knew I had to post it.

Mediatakeout.com [I know, but lets move on] is reporting that the Young Money family could possibly be expecting another bouncing bundle of joy – and right before Lil Wayne’s one year bid at Rikers Island for illegal gun possession.

Apparently Shanell has been DESPERATELY trying to get pregnant by Mr. Cater and they’ve been allegedly trying for months to make it happen.

This bit of news is not at all surprising considering this chick’s obvious and calculated choices these past few years. Once showing a promising career Shanell’s recent antics have been as predictable as Kim Porter. I can smell an opportunist desperate for a lavish lifestyle and guaranteed paycheck from a mile away.

Only time will tell if Shanell is nothing more then a groupie with slight musical talent.  To be safe lets give her 9 months.

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ATL Blog: Shawty Lo and Lil Wayne Shoot “WTF” Video!!!

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Yesterday Lil Wayne and Shawty Lo shot a video for Wayne’s new video “WTF” at Taste off Peter Street in Atlanta. I was pondering whether or not to run and catch an interview for Gyantunplugged TV, but I couldn’t make it out that way. Thankfully enough for us all super-photographer Freddyo snagged some photo’s from the shoot that just wrapped moments ago.

Per Freddyo.com:

Shawty Lo is working overtime this year shooting his second video with an all-star line-up within a month.  He shot the video to his single “Atlanta, GA” with The Dream and Ludacris at the top of the month and last night, he teamed up with Lil Wayne for his new single “WTF”.  Shot by the same director as “Atlanta, GA”, Mr. Boomtown, Shawty Lo is gearing up to release a new mixtape with DJ Scream “I’m Da Man 3″, while he puts the finishing touches on his sophomore album I Am Carlos.  Expect cameo appearances in the video from Rocko, members of Young Money, D4L and more.

Check out Freddy.com for more stills or KarenCivil.com. And check below for some video scored from Exclusiveaccess.net

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