![]() It was a reminder that behind Lil Wayne’s seeming effortlessness is a huge machine of carefully calibrated moving parts, and that this deluge of new material is no accident. In a character-softening appearance last week on “The Mo’Nique Show” on BET, Mo’Nique asked him what he looks for in the artists he signs. Just like that, Lil Wayne is omnipresent again. ![]() And this month his rock album, “Rebirth” (Cash Money/Universal Motown), leaked to the Internet after accidentally shipped some 500 copies to customers who had preordered it. On Tuesday his extended crew Young Money released its debut album, “We Are Young Money” (Young Money/Cash Money/Universal Motown). He is expected to begin serving his sentence that same day: an enforced absence instead of the voluntary break he has been taking.īut as the days count down, Lil Wayne is re-emerging. 9 Lil Wayne will appear in State Supreme Court in Manhattan to be sentenced in connection with a 2007 charge for gun possession. While he was taking a breather, others in particular, Gucci Mane, and Lil Wayne’s protégé Drake took his template and ran with it. Sure, he was on tour and at the Grammys, but the stream of mixtapes and freestyles on which he built his reputation slowed to a drip. ![]() For someone who made ubiquity his art form, Lil Wayne has done a stupendous job of disappearing this year.
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