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Last month Lil’ Wayne protege and rare Canadian cross-over rapper Drake took a pretty serious fall during a concert, sparking a great deal of concern over his physical well-being and his bummed knee. He subsequently canceled all but his hometown (Toronto) appearance on the tour, and is resting up. Complex seized upon the highly-publicized and [...]

The ecstatic, exuberant, crotch-grabbing ways of the late great Michael Jackson may have caused some controversy in their time, but that hasn’t stopped innumerable musical artists since from adopting the iconic move and making it their own. There’s Lil’ Wayne (at right), for instance, who seems to be doing it out of reflex more than [...]

We realize it’s been a little while since we talked about tunes (look for a big music video list shortly), so we’re bringing the music back to Listicles with Best Week Ever’s spectacularly brash vidsticle of The 10 Worst Guitar Solos of All Time. Take notes as you watch and let us know what rings [...]

Tomorrow is Look-Alike Day, and we’re a little giddy about finally unveiling our Jean Benet Ramsey costume for the local look-alike contest. As we put the finishing touches on it, though, we offer a few cautionary tales on the shaky business of finding resemblances between people who really don’t look that similar. As you finalize [...]

Funny how child rappers are pretty much universally mocked, but adult rappers with small or young prefixes in their names (Young, Yung, Lil, Short, etc.) are often very successful. Maybe this is because if we saw our hip hop stars as kids we’d never be able to even pretend to believe their stories of hardship [...]

As you may have heard, hip hop’s reigning king, Lil’ Wayne, has announced that his next album – to be titled Rebirth – will feature only rock music. For many this is cause for concern, as the rap-rock hybrid is usually a dicey bet (see Mos Def’s Black Jack Johnson, Ice-T’s Body Count and the [...]

With last’s night’s announcement of this year’s Grammy nominees (which is really just an encyclopedic list of music industry goings on), there are some surprise names to be found, and others strangely absent. On the one hand, the big award nominees make for a compelling Radiohead-Coldplay art rock showdown to be played out on Grammy [...]