Pitchfork Reviews Reviews: Interviewing Lil Wayne at a Skateboarding Apparel Launch Party
In the back room of a basement club in Chelsea, past the bouncer who mercifully let me in, through the front door and down the stairs, past the coat check and across the dancefloor and down a narrow hallway, I am staring at Lil Wayne through a very thin, almost transparent curtain. There are models and reporters and bottles of liquor and champagne all around me, and smoke in the air and Lil Wayne music playing over the club’s PA. Lil Wayne is the most popular rapper in America and also my personal hero, and right now he’s standing in the encurtained VIP area of this club because he’s here to promote a new line of skateboarding clothes that he either founded or is endorsing. Lil Wayne is wearing all-white Moon Boots that go up to his knees, which he cutely tucks his pants into, and I am watching him as he raps along to a Drake song and extends his arms and dances, like when someone on the new York Jets scores a touchdown and they run around the field impersonating a plane. I am nearly in heaven.
The best tumblr-er in the game interviews the best rapper in the game.
In this awesome video, musicians and celebs praise Megaupload, one of the websites being slammed by the RIAA and MPAA for being a “rogue website”, for its speed and usefulness. Check it out!
This rules, even if the video itself is hilariously awful and gratuitously long (download “the mega song” for free, really?). I do hope that this results in a full-on rappers-endorsing-file-storage-services arms race, though. Dream team: Lil B and Weezy go to bat for Mediafire in the form of an expository free word association. Make it happen, internet!
