A few days ago, Miami Heat took on Los Angeles Lakers at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida. You can view a photo above and a photo after the jump of Lil Wayne sitting courtside at the game eating some popcorn.

Also after the jump, you can view some footage that has only just surfaced online of Tunechi backstage at the 2011 BET Awards from June 26th last year. In the video, you can see Weezy dancing on his own backstage and then performing “Hustle Hard Remix” with Ace Hood, DJ Khaled and Rick Ross. What you all might find funny is how much Drake, Cortez Bryant and Birdman was loving the performance from the front row

Man, it’s been a slow week with Tune news.

Check out some photos in this post of Lil Wayne celebrating his TRUKFIT clothing line during Market Week in New York City last night (January 12th). Weezy was joined by Russell Simmons, Mack Maine, Lil Twist, T-Streets, Cortez Bryant and Marley G (who we ain’t seen with Wayne in a while). You will be able to purchase TRUKFIT apparel next month in Zumiez stores and on Karmaloop.com. Hit the jump for the rest of the pics, courtesy of KC!

Here is the official music video for Birdman‘s “Y.U Mad” single featuring Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj. Gil Green directed this visual, which was shot in Miami, and Baby‘s Bigga Than Life album is set to be released in March 2012. You can view some behind the scenes photos from the video shoot here.

In the video above, Mack Maine surprises Lil Wayne with the new Young Money Discover debit card that they recently launched for people to use in the US. This is basically an advertisement for the debit card and Weezy plans to use his to buy Marley G some new earrings The footage was also shot by DJ Scoob Doo, so I wonder when he plans on giving us some news on The Nino Brown Story Part 3

After the jump, MTV interview Tune, Slim and Birdman about their 17th annual Thanks Giving Day turkey giveaway and not caring about Drake’s Take Care album first week sales, because they are “rich as shit”.

“It’s actually been my first time back here for the past eight or nine years and they’ve been doing this for fifteen years,” Wayne explained. “Me just being super busy, always being on tour or something like that. But this is amazing, especially experiencing it now from the point of view of 29-year-old a person with the things that he needs in place.”

“Those times I did it years ago, I was a kid and I was just doing it because Baby said we were giving away turkeys at a park–and that’s what we were doing,” he continued. “Now its a totally different feeling because I can actually give you that and say here, ‘Happy Thanksgiving,’ and I can I can actually provide that for you. That’s a different feeling in general and it’s a beautiful feeling over-all.”

“As far as expectations, we don’t have those around here. Expectations are a weakness in the music business because if you expect anything, 10 times out of 10 it’s not gonna happen, so we don’t have expectations around here,” Lil Wayne told MTV News on Friday when we caught up with him on a trip to New Orleans where, he gave out Thanksgiving Turkeys in his old neighborhood on Saturday.

“What we do expect is… to work very hard and we expect people to respect our hard work and our effort,” Weezy continued. “Now as far going to buy the album, as far as going to get 750,000 copies, that’s never a problem with us; that’s never important to us.”

Check out these dope photos of Birdman, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj on the set of Baby‘s “Y.U. Mad” video shoot, which was shot in Miami last month by Gil Green. This single will appear on Baby‘s upcoming Bigga Than Life album that will be released on November 21st and the official music video should be dropping anytime soon. Hit the jump to view the rest of the pics and by the look of these pictures, the visual looks like it will be a movie!

Pics via Derick G

Lil Wayne‘s latest single off his Tha Carter IV album featuring Drake, “She Will“, has debuted at #3 on Billboard‘s Hot 100! This is Weezy‘s highest-ever opening rank on the chart, and it also marks Wayne‘s top 10 Hot 100 debut, pushing him past other male artists such as: Eminem and Kanye West. “She Will” is the fourth entry on the Hot 100 chart from Tune‘s C4 album too, as “6 Foot, 7 Foot” featuring Cory Gunz reached #9, “John” featuring Rick Ross reached #22, and “How To Love” reached #5.

Hit the jump to read who CMB are about to sign next to their label, and what Cortez Bryant (Wayne’s manager) and Birdman said to Rolling Stone on August 24h about how they have stopped Tunechi‘s Tha Carter IV album leaking so early like Tha Carter III did back in 2008.

“I think we’re lucky this time.” Bryant said of Wayne’s ninth album, which was officially set to premiere on iTunes at midnight on August 29th after his closing performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, and everywhere else that same day. “We held it until the last moment we could, and we didn’t send any songs or beats by e-mail – we used iChat, or a person had to get on a plane to share music…I’m knocking on wood before I get off the phone with you and it’s all over the Internet.”

Hours later, Tha Carter IV leaked. As fans sucked up bandwidth to download it, others wondered exactly what artists have to do to keep a hot album under wraps: Hotel studio sessions? Pelican briefcases? Biometric fingerprint detectors?

Wayne is no stranger to controversial rollouts: I Am Not a Human Being, released while the MC was still in prison, was a digital-only album for two weeks before CDs were let loose. Bryan “Birdman” Williams, CEO of Cash Money Records, says Wayne went the equal-opportunity route this time because those tactics “just piss everybody off. This is one of the biggest releases of the year, and we wanted to make sure that everybody got to play their part at the same time.”

Cash Money delivered Carter IV to Universal about 10 days in advance, which Williams says was necessary to press the two million units being shipped in its first week. “The goal is to sell a million-plus copies,” he explains. Although that’s likely what led to Carter IV breaking free, Williams says he’s actually OK with leaks, to a point. “I can deal with it for short period of time,” he says. It’s when you have a leak out for a long time that it’s crazy.”

In Cash Money news, the label are about to sign an internationally known pop group, who go by the name of Savvy:

Cash Money Records will expand the roster next week when they officially welcome the first pop group to their label. Internationally known pop band Savvy has inked a deal with Cash Money Records.

Savvy, the label’s latest acquisition, is an internationally known six–member teen band that’s featured in the international TV show “The Wannabes,” which will premiere in North America on September 5th on Starz Kids & Family. The group will be introduced to North America via their upcoming debut album for Cash Money Records.

This Monday (August 29th), Cash Money’s CEO’s, Bryan “Birdman” Williams and his brother, Co-CEO Ronald “Slim” Williams, will be on hand to welcome the group to Cash Money Records. The brothers will preside over a swanky event at 11:00 AM at The Montage Hotel, which is located in Beverly Hills. – AHH

In the video above, you can check out some footage of Lil Wayne at his “I Am Still Music Tour” after-party in Alabama earlier this month with some of the YMCMB family including: Birdman, Slim, Mack Maine, Cortez Bryant, BP, Josh, Marley G, Cory Gunz, E.I. and Fuke. Nothing too exciting happens in the video, so to make this post a bit better, I have added the official CDQ/NODJ version of Game‘s “Can You Believe It” record featuring Weezy and Baby below:

Download: Game – Can You Believe It (Feat Lil Wayne & Birdman) [No DJ]

In the video above, you can check out some more footage of Lil Wayne at an “I Am Still Music Tour” after-party at Compound Lounge Bar in Atlanta. Most of the YMCMB family attended with Tunechi, and I wonder what set off that scuffle at the beginning when they were walking to the club Anyways, there are some photos from the party that you can view after the jump below!

Pics via ATP

Check out these photos of Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Birdman, Mack Maine and Gudda Gudda at Love Nightclub for the Ciroc “I Am Still Music Tour” after-party on July 16th. You can view some footage here, and view lots more pics after the jump below, courtesy of EliteDC Mag!

Lil Wayne is getting ready to start his own clothing line, which will be called Rebirth, the same title of his experimental 2010 album. Weezy told XXL Magazine in their July/August 2011 issue that is available on newsstands now, he wants to jump into the fashion business:

“I just figure that I… I’m funky,” he explained. “I got that from my stylist, Marisa. I’m funky, like she say. I wear a whole buncha items at one time, you know what I mean? I be figuring you at least want one of them items. Like, ‘Damn, I’d love to have that safety pin he got on,’ you know what I mean? Anything. I got on these types of shoes, these shorts, this sweater… A year from now, I want all these items to be mine. Rebirth. I want—I just figure people want to be funky like me, so I got my clothing line.”

Hit the jump to hear what Cortez Bryant recently told Billboard about Tunechi‘s Tha Carter IV album, hitting stores on August 29th!

After many push backs, Bryant tells Billboard there will be no more, “August 29, it’s not changing.” “He put the mixtape and the album in my hand the same day. He turned it in to me yesterday,” Bryant tells Billboard. “It’s done for the most part, around thirty songs that I need to carve down to twelve to sixteen, with four or so bonus tracks.” So much for those unofficial track listings floating around, aye? Bryant confirmed Nas, Jadakiss and Tech N9ne will appear on “Tha Carter IV.”

To promote the long-awaited release of “Tha Carter IV,” Lil Wayne is partnering up with MTV. After Lil Wayne performs on MTV’s Video Music Awards on August 28, the fans will be be able to log on to iTunes “immediately after” to purchase the album.

Target stores will carry an exclusive of the album, Bryant tells Billboard. Bryant did not mention whether the exclusive version will include additional tracks and if so, how many.