Lil Wayne had also been stealing the spotlight on guest verses for nearly a decade, and throughout 2008, he kept his dance card full with the kind of guest verses that helped get him to that level.

New Orleans rapper Lil Wayne's "Tha Carter III" was the best-selling album of 2008, according to year-end figures released by the Nielsen Company, which tracks music sales digitally at point-of ...

Lil Wayne had also been stealing the spotlight on guest verses for nearly a decade, and throughout 2008, he kept his dance card full with the kind of guest verses that helped get him to that level.

On the first leg of Lil Wayne’s I Am Music Tour (Dec. 14, 2008 through Jan. 28, 2009), other artists on the bill included Keyshia Cole, T-Pain, Gym Class Heroes and Keri Hilson.

Lil Wayne is currently in protective custody to serve out his 1 year sentence in New York City for a guilty plea on attempted criminal possession of a weapon (.40 caliber semi-automatic pistol).

Hip-hop critics and fans honestly want Lil Wayne to be huge. "Tha Carter III," the rapper's sixth solo album in the past nine years, was released last week after nearly a year's worth of delays ...

So who does Lil Wayne think he is? His scheduled start time was 3:50 p.m. Around that time, a roadie came out to test a guitar. Not a good sign….

NEW YORK — Rapper Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” (Cash Money/Universal) is far and away the top seller of 2008, netting 2.88 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

For most of the aughts, Lil Wayne had been steadily packing bar on top of bar on his quest to embody his self-fulfilling prophecy of being The Best Rapper Alive, and 2008 was inarguably his coming ...

Swift, 19, sold slightly more than 4 million albums from Dec. 31, 2007, through Dec. 28, 2008, between her new “Fearless” CD and continued popularity of her 2006 debut “Taylor Swift.” ...