You’ve been around that long and you innately become pretty good A&R. People forget how long Dwayne Carter has been in this business. He saw more than a female MC and realized that she could morph into a Katy Perry-Missy hybrid with better lyrical skills. , Wayne saw an individual who would resonate with the masses because he wore his emotions on his sleeve and had a built in audience from his days at Degrassi. And that’s why he has a keen eye and ear for talent.
What may be looked at as quirky and not MC-appropriate doesn’t deter Wayne. What Wayne the MC has is an ability to take risks with his art. And that goes for any form of entertainment. A conduit for discovering talent “Not all great artists excel at recognizing talent. If he gets out of prison and decides to live substance-free, he can educate people about the dangers of drugs, even marijuana, and become an advocate for getting young people to leave substance-free.” Joanna Young, executive director of the Vancouver-based Drug Addiction Helpline, drugaddictiontreatment.ca. Because he’s successful, he already has the ear of the kids. Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin are just some of the performers who died of a drug overdose, but it doesn’t have to be the same for Lil Wayne. A victim of substance abuse “There are millions of people following Lil Wayne and doing exactly what he does, and so when he gets arrested with cocaine and marijuana, it encourages millions of other people’s kids to behave in the same way. Solitary confinement needs to be abolished today.” Ari Wohlfeiler, staff organizer of Critical Resistance, a national organization working to abolish the prison industrial complex.
That’s not my opinion, that’s the consensus of the international human rights community. “Solitary confinement, even when it’s justified as being in the interest of a prisoner for their own protection or else being used as a form of punishment, is still a form of torture. Ben Kaplan asked six experts to tell him what they see when they look at Lil Wayne. Currently the most famous resident in solitary confinement on Riker’s Island, the 28-year-old rapper has won four Grammy awards and has record sales close to 10-million albums, but - like his album title is suggesting - it’s difficult to pin down exactly who he is. Lil Wayne is releasing an album today entitled I Am Not a Human Being. She is currently on tour with with Lil Wayne. Minaj became the first artist to have seven singles simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the first unaccompanied woman to top the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart since 2002 with her single, Your Love. Minaj has taken the music world by storm since releasing her first album, Pink Friday, in 2010. Spears’s manager, Larry Rudolph, told MTV News that this tour will have a post-apocalyptic vibe that matches her Till The World Ends video. Britney has headlined five tours, four of them worldwide, since the release of her debut album, Baby One More Time. The Britney tour will launch on June 16 in Sacramento and travel around North America, ending in Toronto on Aug. The all-female tour will include Jessie and the Toy Boys and the Australian songwriter-DJ sisters Nervo. Enrique Iglesias, originally part of the lineup, dropped out of the tour the day it was announced, and hip-hop/R&B artist Minaj is taking his post.
Nicki Minaj joins Britney's Femme Fatale tourĪfter weeks of speculation, Britney Spears has announced Nicki Minaj as the latest addition to her Femme Fatale tour.