Back in December 2011, Lil Wayne and the YMCMB family took a trip to Australia and Hawaii for a little vacation and tour. In the video above, you can watch some footage from their holiday and live shows. After the jump, you can view some photos of Weezy performing in Sydney. Shout out to Derick G!

Rolling Stone just recently announced that Lil Wayne has extended his “I Am Still Music” tour through the summer. Weezy keeps Rick Ross as an opening act, but swaps Travis Barker, Porcelain Black and Nicki Minaj for Lloyd, Keri Hilson and Far East Movement. The tour will hit 40 cities in the US starting in Hartford, Connecticut on July 13 and ending in Woodlands, Texas on September 11. You can view a full list of all the dates and locations after the jump, and you will be able to purchase tickets on LiveNation starting from May 20!

July 13: Hartford, CT – Comcast Theater
July 15: Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube Live
July 16: Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center
July 17: Masnfield, MA – Comcast Center
July 19: Scranton, PA – Toyota Pavilion
July 20: Saratoga, NY – Performing Arts Center
July 22: Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
July 23: Camden, NJ – Susquehanna Bank Center
July 24: Darien, NY – Darien Lake
July 26: Hershey, PA – Hershey Pavilion
July 27: Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Amphitheater
July 29: Raleigh, NC – Walnut Creek
July 30: Virginia Beach, VA – Farm Bureau Live
August 2: West Palm Beach, FL – Cruzan Amphitheater
August 3: Tampa, FL – 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheater
August 5: Birmingham, AL – Verizon Wireless Music Center
August 6: Atlanta, GA – Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood
August 7: Charlotte, NC – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
August 9: Minneapolis, MN – Xcel Energy Center
August 10: Milwaukee, WI – Marcus Amphitheater
August 12: Pittsburgh, PA – First Niagara Pavilion
August 13: Tinley, IL – Midwest Amphitheater
August 14: Noblesville, IN – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
August 16: Ottawa, ON Canada – Scotia Bank Place
August 17: Montreal, QC Canada – Bell Centre
August 19: Toronto, ON Canada – Molson Amphitheater
August 20: Clarkston, MI – DTE Energy Theater
August 21: Maryland Heights, MO – Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
August 23: Kansas City, MO – Sprint Center
August 25: Phoenix, AZ – Ashley Furniture Pavilion
August 26: San Diego, CA – Cricket Wireless
August 27: San Bernardino, CA – Glen Helen Pavilion
August 30: Denver, CO – Comfort Dental
August 31: Albuquerque, NM – Hard Rock Pavilion
September 2: Mountain View, CA – Shoreline Amphitheater
September 3: Marysville, CA – Sleep Train Amphitheater
September 4: Auburn, WA – White RIver Amphitheater
September 7: Omaha, NE – Qwest Arena
September 9: San Antonio, TX – ATT Center
September 10: Dallas, TX – Gexa Energy Pavilion
September 11: Woodlands, TX – Woodlands Amphitheater

I’m just waiting patiently for the European Tour dates now.

Fans who haven’t gotten a ticket to Lil Wayne’s I Am Still Music Tour will still get a chance to see Weezy on the big stage after all. While backstage at his New Orleans show last week Weezy revealed to MTV News that he has been filming select dates and will compile the footage into a tour documentary similar to Jay-Z’s 2000 film, Backstage, and Russell Simmons’ 1995 doc The Show.

“I just felt like a movie like that hasn’t come out in so long,” Weezy said. “At that time when they put those movies out, we as the fans were interested in what they were doing on the road. … Nobody hasn’t came around since then that was that interesting other than Young Money.”

The I Am Still Music Tour, which kicked off on March 16, has already made key stops in New York and Miami, and will conclude on May 1 at the Bamboozle festival in East Rutherford, New Jersey. A source close to the Young Money camp also confirmed that DJ Scoob Doo has been shooting behind-the-scenes footage, and several cameras have been set up to film at different tour dates.

While there is no word whether the film will be a theatrical release or a straight-to-DVD offering, Tunechi is confident that it will be impactful. “It’s going to be real major; it’s going to be real big,” he said. “I will eat real nice.”

Via MTV

Check out some great footage of Lil Wayne performing at his “I Am Still Music” tour in the video above, and the videos after the jump! We have added footage from both nights Tunechi performed in Long Island, New York at the Nassau Coliseum on March 27 and March 28. Enjoy.

Lil Wayne performs “Welcome To My Hood” with DJ Khaled

Lil Wayne performs “Steady Mobbin’”

Lil Wayne performs “Got Money” with Mack Maine

Lil Wayne performs “Right Above It”

Lil Wayne performs “Phone Home”

Lil Wayne performs “I’m Me”

Lil Wayne performs “Swag Surfin’”

Lil Wayne performs “Go DJ”

Lil Wayne performs “A Milli”

March 28, 2011:

Lil Wayne entrance, then performs “I’m Goin’ In”, “Bill Gates”, “Look At Me Now” with Busta Rhymes, and “A Milli”

Lil Wayne performs “Right Above It” and “Sky Is The Limit”

Lil Wayne performs “Swag Surfin’” and “Wasted”

Lil Wayne performs “Love Affair” with Lil Twist

Lil Wayne performs “I’m Single”

Lil Wayne performs “I’m Me” and “Phone Home”

Lil Wayne performs “Hustle Hard Remix” with Ace Hood

Lil Wayne performs “Welcome To My Hood” with DJ Khaled and “Steady Mobbin’”

Lil Wayne performs “Roger That” with Nicki Minaj

Lil Wayne performs “Fire Flame Remix” and “Money To Blow” with Birdman

Lil Wayne performs “Miss Me”

Here is a short snippet of a Lil Wayne verse over Gucci Mane’s and Nicki Minaj’s “A Failure” record. Nicki even says “I’m Minaj, that’s Gucci, that’s Wayne” on her verse here…

Download: Lil Wayne – Untitled Snippet

Shouts to TS

Hit the jump to read about Lil Wayne’s tours coming the 26th spot for the highest grossing North American series of 2009 and Jay Sean wanting Kim Kardashian:

Dominated by veteran acts such as U2, AC/DC and Elton John, Cash Money/Young Money’s headliner Lil Wayne was the only Hip Hop act to grace Pollstar.com’s Highest Grossing Tours list for 2009.

Wayne, who was out on the road for almost nine months of last year, took the #26 spot, with amassed tickets sales of $42 million. According to Billboard.com, Weezy’s tour attracted over 800,000 fans at 78 various venues throughout North America and Canada.

Shouts to HHDX, and Cash Money’s Jay Sean wants one-on-one time with his crush Kim Kardashian:

The final numbers are in for Lil Wayne‘s 2008-2009 North American touring, and it looks like the rapper will have the highest grossing hip-hop tour of the year — and the most lucrative rap jaunt that Billboard has ever tracked.

Seventy-eight Lil Wayne headlining arena and amphitheater concerts in North America from Dec. 14, 2008, through Sept. 6, 2009, grossed approximately $42 million and drew nearly 804,000 fans, according to Lil Wayne tour producer and tour business manager Shawn Gee, who also serves as president of music and entertainment at Sports & Entertainment Financial Group.

“It’s definitely one of the biggest in the last couple of years,” Gee tells Billboard.com, noting that Haymon Events/Live Nation was the exclusive tour promoter for all of the shows. “Our plan was to prove that Wayne was a viable headlining arena artist.”

The second highest-grossing rap tour that Billboard has tracked was Jay-Z’s 2008 jaunt with Mary J. Blige, which grossed $34.6 million and drew 310,694 concertgoers to 28 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore. Kanye West’s 2008 Glow In the Dark tour comes in third, having pulled in $30.8 million from 49 concerts that attracted 507,853 fans.

Other lucrative hip-hop tours in recent years include 2005′s Eminem/50 Cent Anger Management tour, which grossed $22.7 million from 23 shows; and a 50 Cent tour in 2003 that rang up nearly $23 million in ticket sales, much of it co-headlining with Jay-Z on the Roc-the-Mic tour, according to Boxscore.

Hip-hop tours rarely crack the Billboard year-end list of the top 25 grossing tours, but it’s likely that Lil Wayne‘s 2009 trek will earn a spot on this year’s tally. Several well known support acts on various legs of the rapper’s tour helped push ticket sales, Gee admits.

On the first leg of Lil Wayne‘s I Am Music Tour (Dec. 14, 2008 through Jan. 28, 2009), other artists on the bill included Keyshia Cole, T-Pain, Gym Class Heroes and Keri Hilson. Later, his America’s Most Wanted Music Festival trek (July 27 through Sept. 6) featured opening performances by Young Jeezy, Drake (who only appeared at three shows due to an injury), Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em, Jeremih and Pleasure P.

Gee, who was brought on by the rapper’s management last fall to “help redefine Wayne within the touring market,” says the main touring strategy was to create packages that appealed to fans of different musical genres. “We wanted to make sure we put together a package and over delivered to the consumer,” says Gee, who’s also worked with artists including West, the Roots and Jill Scott.

“We strategically put the I Am Music package together to make sure that all segments of Wayne‘s fanbase would be interested in one, if not, all of the opening acts,” he continues. “We had T-Pain as an opening act, who’s had hits over all formats of radio; we had Keyshia Cole, who is more of an urban-leaning female; and we had Gym Class Heroes, which is more alternative.”

Although no specific touring plans are currently in the works, Gee believes that Lil Wayne will continue as an arena-sized headliner. “We definitely want to capitalize on the success we’ve had and want to continue building Wayne as a touring artist and not just an artist that tours,” he says. “We established him as a headline artist and I think it grows from there.”

Tonight’s Lil’ Wayne concert at GM Place has been cancelled at the last minute.

“The Lil’ Wayne show has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond Live Nation’s control,” the promoter said in a news release on Monday afternoon.

The American rapper last performed in Vancouver in January.

His Edmonton show, scheduled for Aug. 18, has also reportedly been cancelled.

Rumours are flying that rapper got caught up at the Canadian border, but this is purely speculation at this point.

This isn’t the first time Lil’ Wayne has had to cancel a concert in Canada. On June 29, 2008, it was announced that his show at Circa in Toronto and a scheduled appearance in Montreal were cancelled “due to unknown circumstances.”

Shouts to GlobalTVBC and there are even rumors now that Canada wouldn’t let Wayne in the country because he was too high

Lil Wayne has postponed his forthcoming European shows, expected to kick off in Paris on Thursday, due to illness.

The rap star was set to play seven dates in Europe over the next 10 days, including the Roskilde Festival in Denmark and two dates in London.

An official statement said the musician had been forced to cancel the concerts due to “doctor-mandated rest”.

“Lil Wayne extends an apology to his fans for the short notice of this postponement,” a statement said.

“But he looks forward to returning for the performances and visitation with his fans,” the statement continued.

Fans have been advised to hold on to their tickets and wait for details of revised dates.

The shows were due to take place in Paris, Roskilde, London, Amsterdam, Liege and Thurgau in Switzerland.

Shout outs to BBC and I was looking forward to Weezy coming over to the UK, but I guess it is what it is

Also, Young Money members such as Gudda Gudda, Jae Millz and Mack Maine are already in Paris after keeping everyone updated on Twitter, so I don’t know, but they might do something such as a little show or they might just use this as a vacation