Lil Wayne f. Kidd Kidd, Mack Maine & Nicki Minaj, “Thinking to Myself” MP3
Anybody who thinks Lil Wayne doesn’t have soul needs to check themselves. This dude just taps into his passion pit and lets loose. Granted, it usually comes out when he is talking about punany, but the public record shows that Weezy is one fertile dude. In this one he also addresses himself (as “Self”). Might be a first for him, might not, but it’s office consensus that if we want to find out we will have to go through about 96,000 tracks and we don’t have time for that right now (got a magazine to put out and Lil Wayne’s babies to feed!), so if you know the answer, please tell us in the comments.
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(via Nahright)
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posted on Oct 21, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags hip hop, kidd kidd, Lil Wayne, Mack Maine, Nicki Minaj, Young Money
Video: Baby f. Drake & Lil Wayne, “Money to Blow”
It feels marginally significant that this is essentially a Drake song—he raps first and does the hook anyway—but if we were Baby we’d definitely position ourselves in the middle between Drizzy and Weezy, too. Even if people snooze during your part they still wanna see how it ends. It’s interesting to see such a classic pre-recession type of video with cars and cascading waterfalls of cash raining down upon Baby’s delicate bald head, but for some reason this is less annoying than hearing about Jay-Z’s Tribeca loft, maybe because we are easily irritated New Yorkers and this is a cartoony video set resembling The Price is Right.
Young Money f. Lloyd, “Bed Rock” MP3
- story Peter Macia
“Bed Rock” doesn’t quite have the same magic as “Every Girl,” even though it’s rumored to be the first official single from the Young Money album, but having Minaj on here putting all these boys in their places is definitely something that was missing on its Young Money predecessor. As FADER editor Felipe Delerme learned recently, Nikki Nicki has a knack for making grown men nervous. If anyone knows the producer of the beat, drop the name in the comments.
Download: Young Money f. Lloyd, “Bed Rock” (via Nah Right)
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posted on Sep 24, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Drake, Gudda Gudda, hip hop, jae millz, Lil Wayne, Lloyd, Nikki Minaj, Tyga, Young Money
FEATURE: Drake’s Rise to Fame and Fortune
- story Edwin "Stats" Houghton
- photo Jonathan Mannion
On September 7, 2008, Lil Wayne stepped onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards and then stepped decisively away from the words on the lyric sheet circulating in the audience with the following lines…
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posted on Sep 1, 2009 in FEATURES tags Boi 1da, Drake, F63, hip hop, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Young Money
Video: Drake, “Best I Ever Had”
- story Peter Macia
Drake may have just signed with Young Money/Universal, but his first foray into big time solo music videos is with the guy he claims is his guiding spirit and inspiration, Kanye West, who directed this, eh, buoyant clip for the song that is played every 15 minutes on every radio station in America. Watch til the end for top notch innuendo.
Freeload: Drake & The Empire, The Drought Is Over: Friends With Money
- story THE FADER
We’ve been following Drake since we found him on a Mickey Factz song over a year ago and admitted to not knowing who he was… whoops. Now he’s all over the place with his So Far Gone mixtape and “Every Girl” and “Best I Ever Had,” getting signed to Universal via Young Money and getting ready to go into the studio to record his big time debut album. What’s he gonna put on that thing? Who cares? It won’t be out for another six months at the earliest, so expect a lot more projects like this new mixtape from The Empire’s Drought Is Over series. It’s basically Drake’s greatest hits so far with some radio freestyles, six Wayne features (three from Trey Songz) and a few things you might not have heard—a good introduction if you wrote him off for being on the Canadian 90210.
Download: Drake & The Empire, The Drought Is Over: Friends With Money Mixtape
Freeload: Drake f. Nikki Minaj, “Best I Ever Had (Remix)”
- story THE FADER
This song is lighting up New York radio right now, and since we are wont to make incredibly insightful comparisons over here at FADER, we’ve decided that Drake is the Keith Sweat of rap and Nikki Minaj is Teena Marie—so smooth and kind of creepy on the one hand and adorably gangster on the other.
Download: Drake f. Nikki Minaj, “Best I Ever Had (Remix)”
Video: Lil Wayne & Young Money, “Every Girl”
- story THE FADER
You probably wouldn’t believe how many times we’ve sang/rapped every word of this song in front of girls and not gotten slapped in the face. That’s either because they feel sad for us or because this song is THAT GOOD. We’ll hope for the latter! Watch Wayne and Co. turn his new Rolls Royce into a clown car above.
Super Bowl Commercials Terrible, Lil Wayne Still Awesome
- story THE FADER
Last night was one of the more heartwrenching Super Bowls, opened by a lip-syncing Jennifer Hudson, silent Sully Sullenberger, pocket Petraeus, split by snack-hater Springsteen and peppered with a ton of bad commercials (we’re looking you, Danica Patrick and Talking Flowers). But our memory of it remains fairly golden since we popped Wayne and Young Money’s new mixtape on the hi-fi every time we sensed something suspicious. We ended up listening to it three times the whole way through, incidentally, and it held up pretty well. Even this Pharrell track that is making its way around separately stayed okay, probably because P clearly had his verse written by one of the unsung heroes of rap, Fam-Lay.
Download: Lil Wayne f. Pharrell, “Ay Man”
Download: Lil Wayne, Hottest Nigga Under the Sun Mixtape
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posted on Feb 2, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Bruce Springsteen, David Petraeus, fam-lay, freeload, Lil Wayne, Pharrell Williams, Sully Sullenberger, Super Bowl, Young Money
Audio: Young Money, “Open Shop”
- story THE FADER
We probably should have expected Wayne to put together a crew of dudes that sound like harder versions of post-Ultramagnetic Kool Keith and say things like Cut through your cantaloupe and then I stab you with the antlers of an antelope and vanish with some grams of coke, but we didn’t expect it and now we have it and it is great.
