LA Times: Live-Lil Wayne At the Gibson Amphitheatre
Numbers 40 through 31 of the Year-End Top 50, will be up sometime around 2:00 p.m. PST. In the meantime, allow me to steer you in the direction of my review of Lil Wayne’s sold-out, Sunday night show, at the Gibson Amphitheatre. He was fine–certainly not as good as his adoring fans would have you believe, but certainly better than the pitiable lot of rappers left that are capable of going gold (Outkast notwithstanding). More importantly, he performed sans lip gloss holder, which one can only view as progress.
Shockingly, T-Pain stole the show, with a circus-themed act that featured fire-breathing women, dancers on stilts, midgets in Dead Presidents white-face and a stripping Britney Spears midget. The culmination came when the pygmy warriors starting freaking the Britney mini-me–or as Angelenos used to call it back in 2007, just another night at L.A.X. (no Jayceon Taylor). At one point during Pain’s rendition of “Buy U a Drank,” I turned to my friend and mumbled, “I take back all the bad things I ever said about this man.” Sort of.
LA Times: Lil Wayne-Live at the Gibson Amphitheatre
Download:
MP3: Lil Wayne-”Go DJ”
MP3: T-Pain-”Buy U A Drank”
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December 23rd, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Well it’s nice to see you coming around on T-Pain. I’ve never understood all the critical hate, usually centering around the supposedly damning fact that he’s no Roger Troutman. He is what he is, and at least he’s not some kind of Kells/Usher imitator like everybody else.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
You should’ve seen Travis McCoy at the Roxy later that night, DJing in a room full of … 10 people at most. I’m posting a pic on my blog now.
December 24th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
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March 5th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
fuck this rock n roll shit.. get back to mixtape music and real shit