Young Money’s Nicki Minaj announced the nominations earlier today for the 39th Annual American Music Awards! Weezy picked up 3 nods including: “Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Music Artist“, “Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Music Album” and “Artist Of The Year“. The 2011 AMAs will air live from the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on November 20th at 8PM on ABC. You can view the full list of nominations over on Rap-Up.
During a radio interview with Hot 97′s Angie Martinez in March, Lil Wayne said he’s walking away at 35. Then Weezy switched up, telling XXL that he would be gone by 31. Now Lil Tunechi tells MTV that he isn’t sure when exactly he will walk away from rap.
“I’m not sure; I’m not gonna Brett Favre y’all,” Wayne said referring to the former Green Bay Packers quarterback who finally handed the NFL his walking papers in January after years of talking about it. “I’m not gonna draw it all the way out the whole year: ‘We wondering, is Wayne gonna do this?’ But the honest answer is I don’t know.”
“I’m so settled in my life right now,” he told us. “I have my kids; they’re wonderful. My daughter has her career ahead of her now. I have to focus on that, and I have to put the same focus that I put in my career. … I want to become a better father, I want to become a better man to my woman, and those things take time. and time takes away from this. So the honest answer to that retirement question is, I don’t know. Maybe so.”
We’ve already posted a couple of excerpts from Paris Hilton and Dimitri Ehrlich‘s interview with Lil Wayne for Interview Magazine, but we now get the full interview that will appear in April’s issue. You can read the whole interview after the jump, and I think my favorite part has got to be when Weezy said he has two pet sharks and “those are my dudes” haha.
As we posted earlier, Lil Wayne‘s new album I Am Not A Human Being was released on iTunes. Now, we’re glad to say that it has reached number one, already! Less than twelve hours after it’s release it has already surpassed Eminem’s Recovery, taking over the Hip-Hop/Rap charts and Zac Brown Band’s You Get What You Give to become the number one overall album on iTunes. This is a huge accomplishment for Weezy, and now we must wait until Saturday to see where it places on the Billboard 200 chart.
BONUS: After the jump you can view a funny clip from The Cleveland Show where Kenny (played by Kanye West) mentions Wayne.
Yesterday, we reported Lil Wayne‘s “Right Above It” single featuring Drake was officially put on iTunes, and now today it has made #1 on both the Rap/Hip Hop charts and the Overall charts. The record is the first single from Weezy‘s upcoming I’m Not A Human Being EP which is dropping on his birthday, September 27th, and if you didn’t buy your official copy from iTunes, then you can do so here!
Hit the jump to see where Lil Wayne came on the Forbes hip hop top earners list:
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