Is Lil’ Wayne the record industry’s last hope? After 2005’s 50 Cent album release, The Massacre, you would’ve been hard pressed to find a record exec who would’ve predicted another album to move more than a million units in its first week. After all, since 50 Cent’s record three years ago, even grandmothers got broadband Internet in their homes and figured out how to use iTunes; things were supposed to get worse for the industry. And, while anyone from Sony to Bad Boy will tell you they have, Lil’ Wayne’s Tha Carter III, shipping just over 1 million copies in the first week since its June 10 debut, represents an anomaly.
So how come it was Lil’ Wayne, and not even the likes of world superstar and egomaniac Kanye West, who accomplished the impossible?
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Lil’ Wayne was arrested in Boise, Idaho on felony fugitive charges after authorities in Georgia accused him of drug possession.
It’s time like this that those tear drop tattoos prove to be a good investment.
• Those Germans don???t fuck around. Madonna should really watch herself. Y’know, being a Jew and all. [CNN]
• Isn’t Lil??? Wayne like 14? Most kids don’t actually drugs on them until they can at least drive. This is why rich kids do more drugs … they have drivers. It’s not even fun to get fucked up if you just have to sit at your parents house. [Jam!]
• Charlotte Church is counted among such physical beauties as Sophia Lauren, George Clooney and … Jack Black? We don’t get it. [Ananova]
• We were having a pretty depessing day. Until Pete Best made us realize we aren’t actually the biggets losers on Earth. Thanks Pete Best. You are good for something. [Y!]