DeWayne Carter also known as Lil Wayne or Weezy was released yesterday from Rikers Island Correctional facility after serving an 8 month sentence. Word on the Streets is that Weezy will be partying in hotspots Las Vegas and Miami for the next few weeks to celebrate his freedom. Checkout video after the jump.
Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner just published an interview with Barack Obama in which he was asked the president about popular music:
What music have you been listening to lately? What have you discovered, what speaks to you these days?
My iPod now has about 2,000 songs, and it is a source of great pleasure to me. I am probably still more heavily weighted toward the music of my childhood than I am the new stuff. There’s still a lot of Stevie Wonder, a lot of Bob Dylan, a lot of Rolling Stones, a lot of R&B, a lot of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Those are the old standards.
A lot of classical music. I’m not a big opera buff in terms of going to opera, but there are days where Maria Callas is exactly what I need.
Thanks to Reggie [Love, the president’s personal aide], my rap palate has greatly improved. Jay-Z used to be sort of what predominated, but now I’ve got a little Nas and a little Lil Wayne and some other stuff, but I would not claim to be an expert. Malia and Sasha are now getting old enough to where they start hipping me to things. Music is still a great source of joy and occasional solace in the midst of what can be some difficult days.
via FORBES.com
1. Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter – $63 Million
2. Sean “Diddy” Combs – $30M
3. Aliuane “Akon” Thiam – $21M
4. Dwayne “Lil Wayne” Carter – $20M
5. Andre “Dr. Dre” Young – $17M
6. Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges – $16M
7. Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus – $15M
8. Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley – $14M
9. Pharrell Williams – $13M
10. Kanye West – $12M
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Lil Wayne’s “Bogey Blunts” brand flavored cigars are now available in stores, after being previously only available via bogeyblunts.com.
The cigars, which are available in “Master,” “Trees” or “Woods,” are now said to be available in 400 7-11 locations in California.
* Please note: figures below approximated to nearest thousandth.
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Est. Total |
| 2 | Usher | Raymond v. Raymond |
92,000 | 422,000 |
| 6 | Monica | Still Standing |
38,000 | 304,000 |
| 9 | Erykah Badu | New Amerykah Part Two | 30,000 | 140,000 |
| 11 | Ludacris | Battle of the Sexes |
26,000 | 310,000 |
| 13 | Black Eyed Peas | The E.N.D. | 25,000 | 2,411,000 |
| Rank | Artist | Album | This Week | Total |
| 25 | Lil Wayne | Rebirth |
15,000 | 505,000 |
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37 |
Method Man, Ghostface Killah & Raekwon | Wu Massacre |
11,000 | 49,000 |
| 100 | E-40 | Revenue Retrievin’: Night Shift |
5,000 | 17,000 |
| 188 | 50 Cent | Before I Self Destruct | 2,500 | 436,000 |
| 194 | DJ Khaled | Victory |
2,400 | 52,000 |
New Music Video: E-40 “It’s Gotta Get Better”
See Erykah Badu’s controversial video “Window Seat” after the jump.
GWOP staff has put together a list of our favorite Video Vixens in the Rap/Hip Hop Music Video Game!
More after the jump:
Video Vixen Karrine Steffans pictured above
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