Lil Wayne: Last News

Lil Wayne’s original ‘90s group Hot Boys have reunited in full for the first time since 2008 in New Orleans – check out footage below.News of the reunion was shared in September, when Wayne took to social media to announce their appearance at the New Orleans festival Lil’ Weezyana.On Saturday (November 2), the team up happened at the Smoothie King Center, with Wayne, Juvenile, Turk and B.G. joining forces on stage for performances of ‘Get Your Roll On’, ‘I Need a Hot Girl’ and ‘Neighborhood Superstar’, as well as renditions of their respective solo material.Watch extensive footage from the reunion here:The group have not performed as a full four-piece live unit since 2000.

Dreamville Festival at Raleigh, NC’s Dorothea Dix Park on April 5-6 and enlisted some of the heaviest hitters in music to ring in the occasion with him.Headliners confirmed to perform alongside the “No Role Modelz” rapper this year include sizzurp sipping legend Lil Wayne, R&B giant Erykah Badu, trap pioneer 21 Savage, party-starter Partynextdoor and hitmaker Ludacris.They’ll be joined by Keyshia Cole, BigXThaPlug, Ari Lennox, GloRilla and Wale among others.In total, 25 acts are set to perform over the two-day weekend.“What a ride it’s been… We can’t thank y’all enough for all the memories we’ve shared,” festival organizers wrote on Instagram.“From the very beginning, the idea behind the fest was creating a place where our fans, the Dreamville community, could spend time together, a place where they could see themselves reflected, a place to share in experiences. Let’s run it back one more time in April!”As of now, single and multi-day Dreamville passes are available for purchase.Based on our findings, the lowest price we could find on two-day passes was $350 before fees on Vivid Seats at the time of publication.Single-day passes start at $592 before fees (thus, making multi-day passes a true steal).For more information, our team has everything you want to know and more about the 2025 Dreamville Festival below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete breakdown of all the best prices on single and multi-day Dreamville Festival tickets can be found here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and, if it isn’t noted, will include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson debuted a new New Orleans-inspired entrance which featured Lil Wayne‘s ‘Tha Block Is Hot’ in his recent WWE appearance.The wrestler-turned-entertainment polymath showed up to WWE: Smackdown last Friday (February 21), which was held in New Orleans. Before he came out, his staple catchphrase rang out (“If ya smell what The Rock is cooking…”) as he replaced his iconic Jim Johnston theme with Lil Wayne’s 1999 debut single ‘Tha Block Is Hot’ while imagery of New Orleans appeared on-screen.In the post-show press conference, Johnson explained why he chose to remix the track.“I’ve always been a big fan of Lil Wayne,” he said.

Paul McCartney, Sabrina Carpenter, Paul Simon and more have been added to the ‘SNL’ 50 concert line-up.Saturday Night Live’s 50th anniversary special is set to take place this Sunday (February 16) and will include the likes of McCartney, Carpenter, Simon as well as Miley Cyrus, Lil Wayne, Brittany Howard, and The Roots.The musical performances will be combined with a three-hour primetime special which will feature various live sketches which will see both past and present SNL cast members, special guests, and retrospectives celebrating the show’s 50th anniversary.music performances for the SNL50 anniversary special!!! pic.twitter.com/9V69bYnWqa— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) February 14, 2025Simon’s appearance at the show will be a special moment as a rare live appearance as he has largely retired from performing live due to his severe hearing loss in 2023. The ‘You Can Call Me Al’ hitmaker has hosted the show four times and has appeared as the musical guest 13 times.SNL alumnus Jimmy Fallon will be on hosting duties, while Lorne Michaels and Mark Ronson are the show’s executive producers.

Saturday Night Live just announced the complete lineup of musical guests who will perform during their 50th anniversary special on Sunday (February 16)!

Kendrick Lamar has taken the stage to perform at the Super Bowl LIX halftime show at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana. The show was "hosted" by Samuel L.

Lil Wayne was always likely to play a role in this year's Super Bowl, but announcing a new Tha Carter album as part of a TV ad wasn't on many bingo cards. Wayne, who expressed disappointment that he was overlooked for the halftime show in favor of Kendrick Lamar, stars in a new campaign for Cetaphil.

Lil Wayne has confirmed the release date for the long-awaited ‘Tha Carter VI’ in a new advert for Cetaphil.Earlier this week, the New Orleans rap legend took to social media to confirm that he won’t be at the NFL Super Bowl LVIII game in his hometown this weekend, teasing he had something “very special” planned instead. This announcement comes after the controversy surrounding Wayne being overlooked for the halftime show slot, which went to this year’s headliner Kendrick Lamar.Then Lil Wayne – real name Dwayne Carter Jr.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Lil Wayne has officially announced his upcoming album “Tha Carter VI,” arriving on June 6. The rapper made waves earlier today when he teased the new project at the end of a Super Bowl ad for Cetaphil.

Mo is back on Netflix for a second season, but what songs are included in the new episodes? Read on for the full list.The show is co-created by its leading star Mo Amer alongside Ramy Youssef and it is loosely based on Amer’s own experiences as a Palestinian refugee navigating life in the United States.The first season premiered on the streaming service in August 2022 and now the second run of eight episodes have landed, as of January 30. Check out the trailer for season two below.Netflix have said the new season “will bring its hero’s journey for asylum to an end, with Amer reprising his role as Mo, alongside Teresa Ruiz (Maria), Farah Bsieso (Yusra), and Omar Elba (Sameer), who are back as series regulars.”“The new episodes find Mo stranded across the border and desperate to get back to Houston before his family’s asylum hearing.

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is the Big Easy’s premier annual celebration.Set to take place this year from April 24 through May 4 at the New Orleans Fairgrounds, this year’s two-week extravaganza is bringing in heavy hitters like grunge icons Pearl Jam, recent Rock Hall of Fame inductees Dave Matthews Band, country stalwart Luke Combs, ’90s mainstay Lenny Kravitz and an exciting Lil Wayne and The Roots collab.They’ll be joined on the genre-hopping lineup — the NOJaHF doesn’t exactly stick to “just jazz” — by Kacey Musgraves, Santana, John Fogerty, Burna Boy and HAIM.Personally, we’re most excited to see Joan Jett, Big Freedia, My Morning Jacket, Kamasi Washington and Better Than Ezra.In total, over 100 artists are on the bill; according to the festival poster “hundreds more” will also be performing.If you’d like to attend, single and multi-day passes can be picked up as soon as today.For more information, our team has everything you need to know and more about the 2025 New Orleans Jazz Festival below.A complete list of all single and multi-day New Orleans Jazz Festival weekend one ticket options can be found below.For those that can’t make it out to weekend one, here are all the weekend two single and multi-day passes you can grab as soon as today.Each and every year, the New Orleans Jazz Festival goes way above and beyond the call of duty when curating their expansive lineups.To give you an idea of all the exciting artists they’ve booked this year, take a look at their cheery poster here:A post shared by New Orleans Jazz Fest (@jazzfest)Related: Best festival outfits to stand out in a crowdQuite a few of this year’s biggest outdoor jamborees have already unveiled their lineup announcements.To make sure your

Lil Wayne seemingly called out Kendrick Lamar on a diss track that started to circulate online recently.Tensions between Wayne and Lamar recently heightened after it was revealed that Lamar would headline the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime show in New Orleans: Lil Wayne’s hometown. Wayne has long expressed his hopes to perform at the prestigious sports event so, when it was revealed that next year’s slot was given to the Compton star, controversy sparked – with Nicki Minaj, Birdman and more slamming the NFL for its decision.Lamar recently namechecked Wayne on ‘Wacced Out Murals’ from his latest album ‘GNX’, released last month via his own pgLang label. “Used to bump ‘Tha Carter III’, I held my Rollie chain proud/ Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down,” Lamar rapped.

Lil Wayne, Chris Brown and Alice in Chains are reportedly among the artists who spent US tax-payer funded COVID relief grants on luxury items, travel, and parties.The funding, called the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, was signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2020, and aimed to subsidise musicians and venues who were impacted by pandemic-related closures.Now, a new report from Business Insider has found that a handful of big artists, including Wayne, Brown and Alice in Chains claimed millions from the grant before spending it in lavish ways.The publication reveals that Wayne received $8.9million from the tax-payer-funded grant, spending over $1.3million on private-jet flights and over $460,000 on clothes and accessories, including many from luxury brands like Gucci and Balenciaga.The rapper reportedly put $175,000 towards “a music festival promoting his marijuana brand, GKUA” as well as “flights and luxury hotel rooms for women whose connection to Lil Wayne’s touring operation was unclear, including a waitress at a Hooters-type restaurant and a porn actress.”Insider also alleges that Wayne claimed $88,000 for a concert in Coachella, California that he didn’t end up performing at. They report that, when reaching out to him via text to comment, Wayne responded with “a sexually explicit overture to a reporter and did not respond to questions.”Elsewhere, the artist and athlete management firm NKSFB received at least $207million in grant money, of which they took $7million.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Lil Wayne, Chris Brown and Marshmello are just a few of the musicians who applied for and received payouts as part of the Shuttered Venue Operations Grant, a government program meant to aid independent venues and arts groups struggling during the pandemic.

Lil Wayne has revealed that he and Kendrick Lamar have spoken about the latter’s 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show performance – see what Wayne had to say below.In September, the NFL announced that Kendrick Lamar will headline the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans. While the decision went down smoothly with the public, New Orleans natives were upset that hometown hero and rap legend Lil Wayne was not getting the honour.Lil Wayne himself took to social media to voice his disappointment at the snub: “That hurt. Hurt a lot, you know what I’m talking about, hurt a whole lot.

Kendrick Lamar’s highly anticipated halftime show in the Big Easy next year.Grammy-winning singer Jon Batiste, 38, Christian recording artist Lauren Daigle, 33, R&B vocalist Ledisi, 52, and jazz musician Trombone Shorty, 38, have been added to the lineup for Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Feb. 9.The NFL and Roc Nation announced the news on Thursday, Nov.

Lil Wayne has appeared to respond to being namechecked on ‘Wacced Out Murals’ from Kendrick Lamar’s new album ‘GNX’.Yesterday (November 22), Lamar surprise released the record, his first full-length release since 2022’s ‘Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers’. ‘GNX’ features production from Jack Antonoff, Kamasi Washington, Mustard, Terrace Martin and Sounwave and also includes uncredited guest vocals from SZA.The album’s opening track is ‘Wacced Out Murals’, on which Lamar raps, “Used to bump Tha Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud / Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down”.Referencing Wayne’s classic 2008 album, Lamar would seem to be referring to the fact that he was chosen to headline the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime Show ahead of Wayne.“Won the Super Bowl and Nas the only one congratulate me / All these n***** agitated, I’m just glad they showin’ they faces,” Lamar continues on the track.Now, Wayne has had his say on the callout, writing on X on Saturday (November 23): “Man wtf I do?!”Man wtf I do?! I just be chillin & dey still kome 4 my head.

Lil Wayne is set to give his takes as he joins NFL GameDay Morning on the NFL Network.

Megan Thee Stallion and Kendrick Lamar leading the way.For this year’s list, it is Megan Thee Stallion who leads the way, racking up an impressive 12 nods across the nominations. Among the categories she is up for awards in are Best Hip-Hop Video, Best Collaboration, Best Live Performer, Song Of The Year, Album Of The Year and Artist Of The Year.For the first time since the category was introduced in 2020, there are just as many female artists up for the Hip-Hop Artist Of The Year nominations – these include Megan, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj and GloRilla.While Megan is leading the pack with 12 nods, Kendrick Lamar is a close runner-up, racking up 11 nominations this year.

Lil Wayne is big-time bummed.The rap superstar had been actively campaigned to headline the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show in his native New Orleans.But instead, it was announced last Sunday that another hip-hop giant, Kendrick Lamar, would be running the biggest stage in the game on Feb. 9 at the Caesars Superdome.While this week everyone from Nicki Minaj and Drake to Cash Money Records co-founder Birdman and New Orleans Ambassador of Entertainment Master P has been criticizing the choice of K-Dot — a Compton, California native who previously appeared at the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show as part of the Dr.

Lil Wayne has opened up about not being asked to perform at next year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show in his hometown of New Orleans.Earlier this week (September 8), it was announced that Kendrick Lamar would be headlining the 2025 NFL Super Bowl LIX Halftime show – which will be held at the Caesar Superdome in New Orleans next year on February 9, marking the 11th time the major sporting event will been staged in the Big Easy.The choice of having Lamar as the performer left many hip-hop fans on the fence, arguing that Lil Wayne – who was born in the city – should take centre stage in his hometown.Now, the ‘She Will’ rapper has taken to his official Instagram account to express his feelings over the Super Bowl performance snub. “First of all I want to say forgive me for the delay. I had to get the strength to do this without breaking.