Lil Wayne has been announced as a headliner for the first ever We Are One Music + Arts Festival in Houston, Texas.

The music festival will take over place over two days on May 14th – May 15th (Wayne will only be performing live on the Saturday) at Eleanor Tinsley Park.

If you wish to attend the 2022 We Are One Music + Arts Festival (full lineup below), click here to order your tickets online! Are you planning to go and see Weezy perform live in H-Town?

UPDATE: This concert has been postponed to November 12th and 13th, 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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In a recent episode of “People’s Party With Talib Kweli”, special guest Isaiah Rashad made an appearance to chop it up with Kweli himself and co-host Jasmin Leigh.

From the 30:15 mark of their interview onwards, Isaiah spoke on how Lil Wayne and Lupe Fiasco inspired him to write introspectively, Wayne‘s wordplay, the difference between Weezy and Jay Z, and much more.

Rashad also discussed Tha Carter III leaked songs, the tracks Tunechi made about his stepfather Rabbit, the “On The Bus” vlogs with the early Young Money squad, how Tune is the “most entertaining rapper ever”, and why he thinks Young Thug is trying to take that title from him!

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The “Feature Friday” installment for this week is Fall Out Boy‘s official remix of their “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race” single featuring verses from Lil Wayne, Travie McCoy, Tyga, Kanye West, Paul Wall, Skinhead Rob, and Lupe Fiasco.

The original version of this Neal Avron-produced song appears on the rock band’s album, Infinity On High, which was released back in 2007. This track was also performed live at the 2007 MTV VMAs.

“I am your arms dealer, I’m more like an armed dealer; Liter-rally, really, I don’t get this song neither; But I’mma figure it out like a palm reader”

You can listen to “This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race” remix below.

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The “Feature Friday” installment for this week is Chris Brown‘s “Forever” remix featuring verses from Lil Wayne and Lupe Fiasco.

The original version of this Polow Da Don-produced song appears on Breezy‘s Exclusive: Forever Edition album that was released back in 2008.

“I’m so on another pedestal, my foot is on the pedal; I never ever swerve baby, I’m on the syrup baby; I know you fast, but I can make you *errr* baby; Don’t hit the curve baby, yes I’m for sure baby; I know you’re hot, but I can make you hotter baby; Like fur maybe, now we got PETA hatin’; But we put great to the test, and now we the greatest”

You can listen to the “Forever” remix below.

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Last week, Ab-Soul sat down with Genius‘ “10 For 10” segment, which included him answering 10 questions with just 10 seconds to answer.

During their interview, the TDE rapper revealed Lil Wayne is in his top 5 artists of all time list along with Jay Z, Nas, Eminem, and Lupe Fiasco.

You can check out Soul‘s conversation in a video after the jump below. Click here to see Ab rapping along to Weezy‘s “We Pimpin’, Y’all Simpin’” song!

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