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1520 Sedgwick Avenue: June 2nd, 2008
DeadOn... — Tha Carter III leaked over the weekend. So it’s C3 Week. This is “Mr. Carter”. Jay-Z guests. (Jacked from 2dopeboyz.) And rest in peace, Bo Diddley. ...

Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III Is So Good, You Guys
Stereogum — Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III Is So Good, You Guys thumbnail icon: Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III Is So Good, You Guys And you heard it here (not-even-close-to) first. But I couldn't wait anymore for a video or a whatever to babble about it. For all the goodness the leak cycle's been springing of late, it's Lil Wayne's latest that's on endless loop in my player, and in my head when the phones aren't plugged. In today's NY Times , Jon Pareles says " Tha Carter III is Lil Wayne's determined push into pop," and nobody that's taken a spin through III is arguing. The wordplay runs deep -- you can throw darts blind ...

"Indie 500": Sparks, Lil Wayne, Belle and Sebastian
The House Next Door — By Vadim Rizov I remember a friend telling me once about how, in some dreadful class where they purport to teach how to structure scripts properly or something equally proscriptive, he had to defend Scream. The charge was that Scream lacks emotion, to which he reasonably responded that sarcasm does have an emotional component. Flash-forward to "Strange Animal," the second song on Sparks' 21st album, Exotic Creatures Of The Deep, where auto-critique leads the brothers Mael (Russell and Ron) to spit back one of their most common criticisms (lots of snark, not much depth) unadulterated: "This ...