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”
