Lil Wayne hosted the Street Fighter 6 showcase on April 20th, which was a digital event to promote the upcoming video game.

Throughout the video, Wayne talked about playing Street Fighter as a kid, but says this new game is on “another level”. He also introduced the SF6 director Takayuki Nakayama and producer Shuhei Matsumoto.

You can check out the full 30-minute showcase after the jump below! Have you played the Street Fighter 6 demo yet and will you be playing the game when it is released on June 2nd?

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Lin-Manuel Miranda recently chopped it up with Rolling Stone for an interview to discuss his dream projects, plans for 2022, and more.

In their conversation, the actor/director/singer-songwriter was asked who his dream collaboration would be with to which he unexpectedly named Lil Wayne.

You can check out Miranda reveal why he really wants to collaborate with Wayne after the jump below! Would you like to see this happen?

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Complex recently chopped it up with people that have worked with Lil Wayne on set of his commercials to see what it was like working with him.

Sara Gilbert, who is the Public Relations Manager for Sovereign Brands, talked about how Weezy acted as his own director to improve the scenes while on set of the Bumbu ads and the “A Word With Wayne” series:

“It must be from his experience being a professional for all of his adult life. He can hear something and put his own spin to it instantaneously. He might hear something upstairs or down the hallway-[maybe] someone shifted their weight and they have their keys in their pocket. He’ll stop and wait for the noise to clear and then he’ll resume or we’ll take it from the top. He doesn’t miss a stride, it doesn’t throw him off his game. The fact that he self-corrects, he’s directing himself, is amazing.”

Matt Aselton, who directed Tunechi in the commercials for Samsung, spoke on how his crew were unconvinced at first if Tune would be able to act the scenes, as well as how he reminds him of an athlete:

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Lil Wayne has been spotted with director and photographer Nabil Elderkin, who previously shot the photo shoot for Tha Carter IV.

Taking to social media, Nabil shared the picture above of him and Tunechi with a caption reading: “Back at it a couple Carter’s later” with a “direct hit” emoji.

This makes you think that Nabil and Weezy were either working on a Tha Carter V photo shoot, or even a possible music video for a C5 single. What do you think they were up to?

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I have chosen Avant‘s “You Know What” single featuring Lil Wayne and Jermaine Dupri for this week’s “Feature Friday” installment.

The Jermaine Dupri-produced song, which was released in 2005, appears on Avant‘s fourth studio album that came out in 2006, Director.

“Nasty, it’s all in me; How he rap and got women like he R&B?”

You can watch the official “You Know What” music video below that was directed by Benny Boom.

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