Subject: Lil' Wayne

• The 50 Cent Interview with SF Weekly

  September 10, 2007

• CD Review: Kanye West -- Graduation

  September 18, 2007

• CD Review: Little Brother -- Getback

  November 8, 2007

• Anticon's Why? to Release New Album Alopecia 3/11

  January 8, 2008

• Del's 'The 11th Hour' CD - Review and Del Interview

  February 12, 2008

• Reports from the Road: Bun B's "II Trill" release party

  May 21, 2008

• Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Disco Shawn

  May 30, 2008

• Saturday: Undisputed Champions [Bored of the Rings] at Muse Photo Studio

  July 6, 2008

• Last Night: KMEL Block Party at Oracle Arena

  August 8, 2008

• Lil Wayne at Oracle in Dec.

  It's official -- America loves Lil Wayne. He's come a long way from being the rapper who coined the atrocious term "bling bling," to getting himself parodied on the cover of Mad Magazine and making a superfluous appearance at the Country Music Awards. If all this Weezy fuss isn't enough for you, then catch him live at Oakland's Oracle Arena on Dec. 23. Tickets go on sale Saturday, Dec. 22 at 10 a.m. --Oscar Pascual

  November 17, 2008

• Listomania: If You've Got a Little Time on Your Hands!

  By Meredith Brody We love lists, as it happens, almost as much as magazines and their cover blurb writers do (as in Cosmopolitan's invariable "365 New Sexual Positions!" and O the Oprah Magazine's "53 Ways to Give Your Looks a Lift" and Allure's "52 Tips for Irresistible Hair, Makeup, Skin - and Attitude.") (Extra credit: guess which two of the above are genuine cover lines and which isn't. Answer below!) But even we were gob-smacked by Time magazine's recent release of the Top Ten Everything

  December 16, 2008

• Busted Rhymes: The Top 10 Most Preposterous Rap Songs of 2008

  By Ben Westhoff Hip-hop A-listers including Rick Ross, Akon and Plies were caught grossly exaggerating their gangster credentials this year. (Turns out they were painfully law-abiding. The horror!) But even if your favorite rapper wasn't caught in a lie, you can bet he or she put out a hilariously absurd record or two in 2008. Here are the most preposterous rap songs of 2008. RICK ROSS, FEATURING T-PAIN "The Boss" (Def Jam) Though Rick Ross claimed on his debut album, Port of Miami, to know

  December 16, 2008

• The Year in Music: 2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

  By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The following ten singles saturated the Top 40 -- or what passes for hit-oriented radio in this topsy-turvy musical climate -- while proving that accessibility doesn't necessarily preclude creativity. CHRIS

  December 17, 2008

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and i

  December 31, 2008

• The Worst Lyrics of 2008: NCAA-Style Showdown

  And now it's time for the "I love you like a fat kid loves cake" memorial Worst Lyrics of 2008, March Madness-style tournament, this year a terrifying mélange of appalling oral-sex requests, bargain-bin philosophies, grammatical atrocities, and cringe-inducing pillow talk. To elevate the drama, I provided a trusted colleague with the 16 artists who qualified and had him assign seeds--Lil Wayne you expect to go deep into a showdown like this, but Lucinda Williams? Some fantastic match-ups result

  December 29, 2008

• Global Drum Project Snags World Music Grammy

  Global Drum Project Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart didn't invent world music. But he was among the first to take it out of the hands of ethnomusicologists and into the clutches of pop culture. Eighteen years ago, Hart and tabla titan Zakir Hussain won the first World Music Grammy for their spellbindingly percussive 1991 collaboration Planet Drum. Well, guess what, cats and kittens? History has repeated itself, sort of, as the Global Drum Project -- which again teams Hart and Husse

  February 10, 2009

• 10 Music Stars Who'd Make Great Soap Stars

  Paula AbdulAs people turn away from soap operas in droves, daytime television continues to pull out the dramatic stops in order to keep afloat in the recession. But if Days of Our Lives or All My Children wants a bit of a buzzy boost that a fictional transsexual rock star just cannot provide, the producers should consider hiring one of these music stars, who all seem to have the soap opera mentality coursing through them: 10. Paula Abdul The pop star turned American Idol judge began her aspiring

  March 26, 2009

• Town Bizness Cancels SF Show

  EKAphotographyTown Bizness Too $hort's highly-anticipated supergroup Town Bizness  has canceled their scheduled March 27 show at the Grand Ballroom. No official reason was given for the cancellation, and the show has yet to be rescheduled. A representative for $hort's label Up All Nite, reached over the phone from Atlanta, said he didn't know anything about any Bay Area shows, adding that he was waiting to talk to the legendary rapper about the Town Biz project. Another source with close

  March 18, 2009

• How the crash will reshape the music industry

  April 8, 2009

• Lily Allen

  It's Not Me, It's You (Capitol)

  February 25, 2009

• Eight Steps to a Better 2009

  January 7, 2009

• The Worst Lyrics of 2008

  December 24, 2008

• Lil Wayne’s crappy performance record

  December 17, 2008

• Border Beats

  November 5, 2008

• Border Beats

  October 29, 2008

• Lavelle’s Yer UNKLE

  October 15, 2008

• The Cataracs have the fans, lack the lyrics

  August 6, 2008

• Tiny Monsters

  June 25, 2008

• A brief history of vocal fakery from Zapp to "Lollipop"

  June 25, 2008

• Black Stars:

  Ghana's Hiplife Generation (Out Here)

  June 4, 2008

• Cat Power Under the Covers: A Listening Party with Jukebox Muses

  April 9, 2008

• Why?

  March 5, 2008

• Vallejo Rapper Soldier Hard Brings Home Iraq's Harsh Realities

  January 30, 2008

• My Tunes: Lyrics Born

  Quannum projects star and alt-rap icon

  December 5, 2007

• Little Brother

  November 7, 2007

• Is Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah as Dumb as He Sometimes Acts?

  October 31, 2007

• Kanye West

  Graduation (Island Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)

  September 12, 2007

• The Call of Katrina

  Dirty Dozen Brass Band gives sonic insight into New Orleans' stormy history

  June 27, 2007

• Trash queens reign at Cinch

  October 25, 2006

• The Lifesaver

  Shawn Richard got the city to give jobs to alleged gang leaders. If anyone can make such a program work, it's ...THE LIFESAVER

  February 2, 2005

• The Roots discuss hip-hop’s second jazz age

  May 27, 2009

• Phoenix crafts the season’s perfect hits

  June 24, 2009

• Never Can Say Goodbye

  Michael Jackson in 1987 I'm not trying to be cynical or morbid here, but Michael Jackson's death was the best thing to happen to him in years. In death, Michael lives on forever. He has now joined the ancestors, among them musical icons like Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, and Fela Kuti. I appreciated the VH1 tributes which showed his greatest moments over and over (gotta love that amazing moonwalk during the Motown 25th Anniversary, not to mention his gravi

  June 29, 2009

• Chamillionaire

  October 3, 2007

• NPR: Rap as Geopolitics

  Il(l) like Kim Jong: Lil' Wayne National Public Radio has an interesting take  on beef in the rap world: it's essentially a mirror of global politics, according to Marc Lynch, a professor at George Washington University and the director of the Institute of Middle East Studies. ""The way that rappers compete with each other -- this is soft power," Lynch is quoted as saying. "This is the way you try and make a reputation, try and get what you want, and you have to do it through this very in

  July 22, 2009

• 13 Reasons Why Yoga-Hop Is Gonna Be Huge

  Doze Green"Kali Dwapar"​ Big tip o' the ASD hat--hey, do we have hats?--to SF Weekly Clubs Editor John Graham for passing along this tasty tidbit about what could be the Next Big Hip-Hop trend. In JG's words: "Now that MC Chris has agreed to appear at Insane Clown Posse's Gathering of the Juggalos meathead festival this summer, I guess nerdcore hip-hop is officially dead. That opens the door for Kirtan-core ... rapping about yoga!" Funny thing is, I went to Point Reyes rapper MC Yogi's we

  July 29, 2009

• Fish & Farm's Chad Newton: The SFoodie Interview

  C. NewtonChad Newton: Wants Gordon to keep yelling.​Growing up in Mountain View, Chad Newton got a taste of restaurant glory via family trips to Stars, Jeremiah Tower's watershed Cali brasserie. "I used to always gravitate toward the regular menu, not the kid's menu," Newton said. He graduated from the Restaurant Management program at S.F. State, and in 2001 scored a front of the house job as food runner at Postrio during the reign of Steven and Mitchell Rosenthal (now the forces behind To

  September 15, 2009

• Just Tweet It

  September 23, 2009

• T-Pain DataSF = Tinny Voiced Do-Gooder Web Apps?

  There's an app for that...​Calling all computer-whiz nerds: not one, but two Bay Area-based Web application contests were announced this week. First, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has been helping to promote the DataSF App contest, which challenges entrants to create civic-minded applications based on the newly available government data featured on the new clearinghouse of city data (he even wrote about it here, and tweeted about writing about it here. Naturally, we're writing about him twe

  October 2, 2009

• Music Awards: Lazer Sword

  October 14, 2009