Posts tagged "Shyne"

Spin Cycle: Lil’ Wayne’s “Tha Carter IV”

Rapper Lil’ Wayne once said, via an album title, I Am Not A Human Being. Listening to his new album, Tha Carter IV, it’s not difficult to see where Wayne was coming from – it’s not difficult to envision the rapper being dropped from a UFO into someone’s Hollywood backyard on a quiet, chilly night. The objective? To ruin hip-hop by turning it into an exaggerated version of its worst stereotypes, to behave in a deliberately bizarre fashion to court […]

J. Lo and Shyne: Maybe Def Jam Will Write Me a Check Too

Let’s have a moment of silence for the musical career of Jennifer Lopez. The multimedia superstar started out humbly as a dancer on “In Living Color” and eventually made it big in movies before exploding in the music game as part of the “Latin explosion” that spawned hit records by Ricky Martin, Enrique Iglesias and the man who J. Lo would eventually marry, Marc Anthony. Early in the past decade, she routinely hit the top of the charts with songs […]