It's a pretty commonly held view that covers suck. They can be lame, unimaginative and tantamount to stealing someone else's thoughts. Just ask Prin...
Welcome to Buzzworthy's "The Week In Pop," where we round up new album releases, talk show musical guests, and TV performances by your favorite pop st...
Earlier this month Lil Wayne lost his endorsement deal with Mountain Dew , thanks to a controversial reference to Civil Rights figure Emmett Till on ...
Paola Guadagnino will have to bust out her finest china soon, if her son, Vinny , manages to snag his ideal guest. In this week's "Dear Vinny" video...
Alison Krauss and Union Station, Ray LaMontagne, Iron & Wine, Big Boi, Amos Lee, String Cheese Incident, Robert Plant and Band of Joy, the Decemberist...
, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Ray LaMontagne, Iron & Wine, Big Boi, Amos Lee, String Cheese Incident, Robert Plant and Band of Joy, the Decemberi...
to the Super Bowl contenders. "I put it down, representin' for my team/ I'm in green and yellow, green and yellow," declares the New Orleans native. Y...
While "On the Floor," the first single from Jennifer Lopez's forthcoming album "Love?," is still performing nicely on the Hot 100, the singer has deci...
, and we'll see what the man decides to do," Minaj explains. "With Wayne, you never know; he's known to change his mind a lot when he's putting out hi...
a release date for the album. Having been moved from a mid-May release, June 21 is now the most commonly speculated date. Weezy continues his "I Am St...
quite well. Afterward, the "Lollipop" rapper sat down on the stairs behind Blige, leading the audience in a chorus of claps while the diva brought the...
Lil Wayne will team up with Mary J. Blige, Pitbull will rock the stage with Ne-Yo and Nayer, and Far*East Movement will be joined by both Snoop Dogg a...
remixed his "My World 2.0" track "Runaway Love" with Raekwon. Then, just when we thought he wasn't going to ask Busta Rhymes to be on his version of "...
during their live shows, will participate in a "special performance highlighting dance/electronica music" at Sunday's (Feb. 12) show, according to an ...
In one of the biggest hip-hop soft-drink partnerships in recent memory, Lil Wayne and Mountain Dew are teaming up for a new campaign, dubbed DEWeezy, ...
Adele, LMFAO, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Lil Wayne lead the finalists for the 2012 Billboard Music Awards, which will take place at Las Vegas' MGM Grand a...
Tweet Just when you thought the presidential campaign couldn't get any stranger, enter Nicki Minaj. On Lil Wayne's much hyped mixtape, Dedication 4, t...
Tweet After two separate delays, Lil Wayne finally resumes his widely-received Dedication mixtape series today with the release of its fourth installm...
Tweet Lil Wayne just spent the best part of 15 tracks covering contemporary hits with Dedication 4, but he returns today by remixing Future's "Turn On...
Tweet It's good times all round in the video to Game's "Celebration." Jayceon Taylor welcomes his guests, Chris Brown, Tyga, Wiz Khalifa and Lil Wayne...
Tweet A Hot Boyz reunion, anyone? Almost a decade since we last heard from the original Cash Money crew as a collective, Juvenile, Lil Wayne and Birdm...
Move over Elvis Presley, there is a new King in town. While he might not be taking the crown for King of rock and roll, Lil Wayne is snatching the tit...
He'll always be the King of Rock and Roll, but w hen it comes to the artist with the most Billboard Hot 100 hits, Elvis Presley's longstanding record ...
Lil Wayne is thanking fans who prayed for him while he was hospitalized after a severe migraine and dehydration. The rapper's management team says he'...
Welcome to the Monday, October 29 edition of "The Beat," Billboard.com's daily music news show, featuring host Jonathan Brooks running down the latest...
As HotSpotATL points out, the family of slain civil rights icon Emmett Till is petitioning to have a Lil Wayne song removed from the radio due to its ...
Juicy J, Big Sean, Drake and many more will appear on the feature-heavy set. This past weekend brought the release of Lil Wayne's "I Am Not A Human Be...
I'm checkin' all the boxes of that Tribe Called Quest era and J. Dilla and all that, so they wanna champion it. They don't like Givenchy Kanye. They d...
Reports in the last hour by TMZ have rapper Lil Wayne fighting for his life at Los Angeles' Ceder Sinai Medical Center following another bout with sei...
UPDATED: Mack Maine, president of Young Money, has tweeted that Lil Wayne is "alive and well": Wayne is alive and well! We watching the Syracuse game....
T.I., Snoop Dogg and more also tweeted their support for the recovering rapper Lil Wayne is getting plenty of support -- and also a few superstar visi...
"He'll be home soon," the Cash Money CEO tells Hot 97's Angie Martinez Lil Wayne had a single seizure caused by stress, not drugs, and will soon be le...
T.I., Snoop Dogg and more also tweeted their support for the recovering rapper Lil Wayne is getting plenty of support -- and also a few superstar visi...
A day after being released from Cedars-Sinai hospital, Lil Wayne takes to Twitter to let his fans know that he's doing "a lot better." I'm feeling a l...
Lil Wayne is out of the hospital, according to his Young Money associate Mack Maine. Mack Maine told his Twitter followers on Monday night that the mu...
The MC, released from the hospital this week, reaches his highest position on the chart. Lil Wayne soars on Billboard's Social 50 tally this week, asc...
After being hospitalized for seizures earlier this month, Lil Wayne is recovering and ready to embark on tour alongside Atlanta's own, T.I. and Future...
Bite into your chocolate starfish and take a gulp of some hot dog-flavored water: Limp Bizkit is back, with a new single, "Ready To Go," that features...
Tweet Lil Wayne's I Am Not a Human Being II is out now and to accompany the release he's released this ill animated cover. Like any good animated gif,...
The rapper's "I Am Not a Human Being II" should launch atop debuts from Blake Shelton and Depeche Mode. Lil Wayne should earn the highest debut on nex...
Says Weezy: "I could've died." In his first interview since his life-threatening seizure scare, Lil Wayne says he is epileptic and blames his health i...
Hear the star-powered track from DJ Khaled's upcoming "Suffering From Success." With friends like these, who needs new friends? Not DJ Khaled, who cor...
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Lil Wayne Andrew D. Bernstein /NBAE via Getty Images A representative from Emmett Till's family said that Lil Wayne's apology for an "innapropriate" l...
And now for the third (fourth?) batch of additions to the roster at the Billboard Music Awards on May 19. Billboard just announced that Lil Wayne and ...
PepsiCo is cutting its ties with Lil Wayne after the rapper made a crude reference to civil rights martyr Emmett Till in a song. Lil Wayne, one of the...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The family of Emmett Till says a letter from Lil Wayne fell short of an apology for his crude reference to the civil rights m...
Lil Wayne has been dropped from Mountain Dew, as MTV News reports, over the controversy surrounding his reference to American civil rights figure Emme...
NEW YORK (AP) -- PepsiCo is bowing to public pressure for the second time in a week and cutting ties with Lil Wayne over the rapper's crude lyrical re...
Related ContentView Photo Lil Wayne Dropped by Mountain Dew Over 'Offensive' Lyrics Lil Wayne continues to face the fallout for his crude lyrical refe...
REUTERS - PepsiCo Inc severed ties with rapper Lil Wayne on Friday over a graphic reference to slain U.S. civil rights figure Emmett Till in a song. L...
Lil Wayne continues to face the fallout for his crude lyrical reference to the slain Civil Rights figure Emmett Till: he has now been dropped as a Mou...
(Reuters) - PepsiCo Inc severed ties with rapper Lil Wayne on Friday over a graphic reference to slain U.S. civil rights figure Emmett Till in a song....
NEW YORK (AP) -- PepsiCo is cutting its ties with Lil Wayne after the rapper made a crude reference to civil rights martyr Emmett Till in a song. Lil ...
