Leighton Meester

The ‘Gossip Girl’ star revealed her latest collaboration to MTV News before performing at the new American Eagle store in Times Square on Tuesday night, where she sang a medley of cuts off her yet-untitled album, including a remix of the Cobra Starship track.

“I met [Wayne] a few months ago, and he’s honestly — I don’t even know if he’ll want people to know that he’s incredibly polite and respectful,” she said about the hip-hop wunderkind, with whom she actually presented the award for Best Song From a Movie at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. “He’s so talented and very funny. And really optimistic, and super supportive of me, which I’ve really, really appreciated so much.”

It seems that since their meeting a few months back, Wayne’s been a fan of Blair Waldorf’s budding discography — and even picked which track he’d be featured on. “I sent him a couple of my songs,” she said. “He’s been diggin’ on them for a while. Then he heard ['Make It Rain'], and he was like, ‘All right, I’m gonna kill it!’ ”

While many musical partnerships can be conducted without both artists being in the studio together, Meester and Weezy got some face time during the song’s recording — a feat for any artist, considering Wayne’s notorious nocturnal office hours.

“It was like, literally, 4 o’clock in the morning,” Meester said of the time she showed up at the studio to watch Wayne work himself into her song. “He was so sick — he didn’t even write anything down. He just, like, vibed to the music and dances. I don’t even know how he does it; he’s amazing.”

Article Courtesy of MTV.com, Written by Rya Backer

Lil Wayne

Jeremih, whose self-titled album debuted at #6 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and #1 on the R&B chart, exploded into music history this spring with “Birthday Sex,” the most played song on MySpace for 6 weeks in a row. With over 95 million MySpace plays to date, “Birthday Sex” rose to #1 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, #4 on the Hot 100, and #5 on the Hot Digital Songs chart (the single is approaching platinum), and boasts more than 100 million total audience at radio.

Young Jeezy released his most recent album, The Recession, in September 2008 – his second consecutive #1 Sound­scan debut on the Billboard 200 albums chart (after 2006’s The Inspiration). The Recession, which also went straight to #1 at iTunes, spun off a string of hit singles starting with “Put On” featuring Kanye West, #1 Rap and #1 R&B, and a #12 pop hit as well. The Grammy-nominated song was the second-highest charting Hot 100 hit of Jeezy’s career, and was also nominated for the People’s Champ Award at the BET Hip Hop Awards in October 2008. Jeezy’s next album is set to drop in Fall 2009.

‘YOUNG MONEY TOUR’

STARRING YOUNG JEEZY, LIL WAYNE, JEREMIH, AND GUESTS

Date City Venue

July 27 Scranton, PA Toyota Pavilion

29 Saratoga Springs, NY Performing Arts Center

30 Pittsburgh, PA Post-Gazette Pavilion

31 Camden, NJ Susquehanna Bank Center

Aug. 1 Wantagh, NY Jones Beach Amphitheatre

2 Virginia Beach, VA Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

4 Toronto, Ont. Molson Amphitheatre

5 Montreal, Que. Bell Centre

6 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center

7 Washington, DC Nissan Pavilion

8 Raleigh, NC Music Pavilion

9 Atlanta, GA Aaron’s Amphitheatre

12 Phoenix, AZ Cricket Wireless Pavilion

13 Los Angeles, CA Gibson Amphitheatre

14 Anaheim, CA Theatre at the Honda Center

15 Concord, CA Sleep Train Pavilion

17 Vancouver, B.C. GM Place

18 Edmonton, Alb. Rexall Place

20 Denver, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre

22 Houston, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion

23 Dallas, TX Superpages.com Center

This proves the music world is a complete mess–either that or music fans have lost their sense of sound. We panned the album but Entertainment Weekly is saying this might be the biggest debut of the year. How does a shitty album like that even have a chance?

Read the story at EW.com
or
Watch the video for “Lollipop”

Corporate line:
Cash Money/Universal Motown Records multi-platinum artist Lil Wayne is once again taking control of the airwaves and breaking records in both with “Lollipop,” the first single from his highly anticipated album “Tha Carter III.” This is the biggest add week that a hip-hop artist has received at Rhythm Crossover and the biggest any artist has received at Urban Radio including Beyonce and Mariah.

“Lollipop,” is being well received at key radio stations across the country including: New York (Hot 97), Los Angeles (Power), Seattle (93 KUBE), Miami (99 Jamz), Philadelphia (Power 99), Atlanta (Hot 107) and Detroit (Hot 102). Lil Wayne’s MySpace page received over a million unique views this week giving him the #1 Top Artist profile on the site. The video is currently in heavy rotation at MTV, MTV2, BET’s Rap City and MTV Jams, where it appeared as the Jam Of The Week. The “Lollipop” video is also in medium rotation at MTV Hits and on BET’s main playlist. Lil Wayne will also appear on BET’s annual Spring Bling and will be only the 2nd artist in the event’s history to perform for an entire episode!

Since the release of his last CD, the platinum selling “Tha Cater II,” Lil Wayne has guest appearances on over 70 songs for other artists including Fat Joe’s 2008 Grammy nominated single “Make It Rain,” DJ Khaled’s “We Taking Over,” and Wyclef Jeans’ “Sweetest Girl.” He also released a duet CD with Bryan “Birdman” Williams titled Like Father, Like Son in 2006 which was a critical and commercial success.

The hits:
“Lollipop” – The only song where Wayne lets his unique style loose. It’s a hit but that doesn’t mean its great. It’s dance club worthy but not winning any awards. In a few weeks it’ll be completely forgotten.

The rest:
“3 Peat” – What is Wayne doing? He sounds like he’s straining to kick out a rhyme like he’s sitting on the toilet.
“Mr. Carter” – Wayne must have skinny man disease–he always seems to have to prove he’s a bad ass. We’re only two tracks in and already its a self-love fest.
“Got Money” – Wayne is trying way too hard and gets nowhere. I’m sure he thinks he’s getting far.
“Phone Home” – Apparently Wayne watched E.T. and figured out what he would do if he was a long necked alien… he’d rap like he had no talent. This is the worst song Wayne has ever made.
“Shoot Me Down” – I spoke too soon. This is the worst Wayne song ever. The chorus is horrible. The rhymes are even worse: “I sweat money and the bank is my shower.” Enough said.
“La La” – Okay, not enough said. This tops both of the worst songs ever.

Finally:
Lil’ Wayne was supposed to be the next Eazy-E.. He had a voice that was unique and a tight flow. There is a big difference between Eazy and Wayne: one is a legend the other is a wanna-be. Wayne has squandered his talent worrying too much about telling us how great he is but never being great. He’s run away from his unqiue voice. Lil’ Wayne isn’t getting better–he’s fallen from cult hero to mainstream hack.

“Lollipop” video: