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...ain’t cheap.” As he puts it, he “ain’t tryna give back,” and he favors the lower income tax rates implemented by a supply-side economics model. Religion Fear God: Messianism and Mortality Primary source: Tha Carter III Prospectus: Is Weezy God or man? “Young God in the buildin’ / Bout to start a religion,” he proclaims. Yet he’s also painfully conscious of corporeality: “Two more inches I’da been...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Theses I Wish I were Writing | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Leading the way with eight nominations is Lil Wayne, the tiny mixtape-making, cough-syrup-swilling stream-of-consciousness New Orleans rapper whose Tha Carter III truly was one of the best albums of the year. His competition in Grammys' glamour category comes from Coldplay's slightly overhyped Viva La Vida, Ne-Yo's Year of the Gentleman, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's elegant Raising Sand and Radiohead's record-industry death knell In Rainbows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grammy Nods: Bad Show, Decent Nominees | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

...Friday, U.S. unemployment hit a 14-year high and yet plenty of stocks 
rallied, with the Dow Industrials ending up nearly 250 points. On Monday, 
news of China's $586 billion stimulus package, a colossus of a program tha t
should bolster the global economy, was washed away amid more 
company-specific concerns like the fate of G.M. It almost feels as though investors are once again paying attention to the underlying value of individual stocks, and aren't simply being swayed by broader economic news: bailouts, oil prices, hedge-fund liquidation, data pointing to recession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Stock Picking Has Changed | 11/11/2008 | See Source »

...masses heard a short cash-money millionaire saturating the American airwaves this summer. Yet the pop crowd probably didn’t realize that the dreadlocked Lil’ Wayne has mounted the jewel in his hip-hop crown. “Tha Carter III” represents the culmination of the most dramatic hip-hop trilogy of recent memory. As far as content goes, Lil’ Wayne’s newest album doesn’t depart far from his traditional material. With sugary club hits like “Lollipop?...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lil Wayne | 9/19/2008 | See Source »

...charts are to be believed, his goodwill has been repaid many times over. Of course, it helps that Tha Carter III is one of the best albums of the year. It's a pop play--and smelling it, everyone from Jay-Z to Robin Thicke jumped on board with contributions--but it's still weird enough to sound like underground Lil Wayne. His wordplay can be thrilling ("My picture should be in the dictionary next to the definition of definition"), and no other rapper finds as much joy in rhyming; "in the way," "everyday," "what we say," "clich," "Andre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lil Wayne: The Best Rapper Alive | 7/3/2008 | See Source »

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