Lil Wayne definitely has a type: models. The rapper was happy and in love not too long ago with plus-sized model La’Tecia Thomas, and the two of them even got engaged last fall. However, things didn’t exactly work out, as it was revealed last month that Wayne and his fiancée had called it quits. Now, Weezy appears to have locked down yet another striking beauty, as rumours swirl that he’s dating Puerto Rican-Kuwaiti model Denise Bidot.

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The first sign that these two may be an item was the fact that Denise is the only account that Wayne follows on Instagram. Wayne also mentioned that he had a new lady in his life while talking to Nicki Minaj on Young Money Radio on Friday (June 12th). While they were discussing Nicki’s marriage to Kenneth Petty, she recalled some relationship advice Wayne had given her in the past. “Remember when you was telling me that I be having an attitude all the time because I needed good dick?” she reminded him. “You was right though!” Wayne laughed and told her, “I just hope my girl heard that, that’s all.”

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Wayne and Denise have known each other since at least last summer, as they were photographed together in a promotional shot for his Young Money collection with American Eagle. Denise has modelled for brands like Savage x Fenty, Lane Bryant, and Levi’s. She was also the first plus-sized model to walk the runway for two different straight size brands during New York Fashion Week.

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You never know what's going to happen on Young Money Radio, though we can definitely admit it's far less dramatic than Queen Radio. Nonetheless, Lil Wayne always brings in top-tier talent to chop it up with him on current affairs and the state of the rap game. Last night, Nicki Minaj joined Weezy following the release of her new collaboration with 6ix9ine, "Trollz." The conversation, though, shifted towards the possibility of a joint project with Lil Wayne.

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"We doin' our joint album. A lot of the fans been askin' about it. When we gon' do this?" Wayne asked Nicki.

"You already know, your wish is my command," Nicki replied.

Neither one of them gave any sort of confirmation of when fans could expect the project which isn't necessarily a promising sign. Nicki essentially broke down the problem with working with Wayne which is essentially laying down a verse after him. She pointed to their remix of Post Malone's "rockstar" as an example but she simply stated that it's different when you go in to a session to freestyle versus actually penning down a verse for a whole song. 

We'll have to see if this ends up coming into fruition. Are you down for a Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj collab project in 2020? Sound off in the comments with your thoughts. 

The relationship between Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj is a long one. Wayne was instrumental in helping launch Nicki’s career into the stratosphere and the Young Money artists and longtime friends linked up once again on Wayne’s Young Money Radio podcast.

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After playing a few Nicki and Young Money collaborative tracks, Wayne and the Queen rapper exchange a few memories before Weezy wanted to know what it was like for a woman in the rap game early on in her career. Nicki stated that it was a difficult time because it was a struggle to be taken seriously by the male-dominated industry. “I don’t think people realize the work that goes into it,” she said. “If you not ready to work, then why bother?”

Wayne also asked Nicki Minaj about her social media silence and lack of posts in recent months. She explained that she’s definitely been putting in work, but she needed some time off of social media. “It can be so like, extra,” Nicki said. “I think everybody needs that time to themselves and their family and to think and for your—when people stay on social media, their thoughts become everyone else’s thoughts. They can’t think for themselves.”

Elsewhere, Lil Wayne brought up that he’d heard Nicki had tied the knot so he offered up his congratulatory well-wishes. He wanted to know how married life had been treating his fellow rap star. “Good, good, good,” Nicki Minaj said. “I can’t complain. I really cannot freaking complain. I didn’t think it would be as refreshing and calming as it is. Even if you’re not married, when you have someone who feels like your soulmate or is very understanding or understands you, it just makes you feel like you on top of the world. You just need that partner. So, I’m good.”

A pattern is beginning to take shape for Young Money Artists. Dominate the rap game only to transition into the radio game. In any case, Lil Wayne has recently launched Young Money Radio, a show where he sits down for discussions with many legendary voices in the rap game and beyond; we’ve already seen appearances from Dr. Dre, Eminem, Drake, DJ Khaled, Kevin Durant, Mike Tyson, Snoop Dogg, Killer Mike, and many more. 

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On tonight’s episode of Young Money Radio, Lil Weezy is taking it back to where his record label’s movement first began, once again connecting with longtime friend and collaborator Nicki Minaj. Though the hip-hop Queen didn’t appear on Funeral, she has remained loyal to Weezy’s cause and vice versa, with their last two collaborations arriving on Queen and Tha Carter V not too long ago. 

Still, Weezy himself feels the conversation is long overdue. In light of Minaj’s recent appearance on Tekashi 6ix9ine‘s Instagram Live feed, celebrating the release of their “FEFE” follow-up “Trollz,” it’s likely the pair will have no shortage of material to discuss. “The First Lady of Young Money, THE Queen @nickiminaj joins the show today,” writes Weezy. “Been waiting on this conversation for a min now.” And if that wasn’t enough, T-Pain is also set to connect with Wayne tonight, finally providing an answer to the long-pondered question of why T-Wayne never came out in the first place. 

Should you be interested in catching this upcoming episode, look for Young Money Radio to kick off this evening at 4pm PT/7pm ET, exclusively on Apple Music.

He’s a crossover artist who is hailed as hip hop royalty with a sound and a style all his own. Ludacris has enjoyed a successful career in both music and film that has spanned over two decades, and when it comes to lyricism, he knows the ins and outs of what makes a good flow. During his recent appearance on XXL’s Hip-Hop Moments of Clarity, the rapper was asked to give his top five rappers with the most “undeniable flows,” and Ludacris called it “one of the greatest questions” he’d “ever been asked.”

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His first pick shouldn’t come as a surprise to many. “So, top five flows, man. Andre 3000 is going to be in there. I feel like he always challenges, always challenges. Imma put Kendrick Lamar in there as No. 2. Imma put J. Cole in there as being, like—right now, I’m thinking of people that are versatile and constantly trying to think of different flows that don’t pretty much have a set flow that they always do,” Ludacris said. Those are three. Imma go ’head and put Jay-Z in there, man. Jay-Z, you know, he does different things and he does experiment with different flows. And mostly, his different subject matter and how he’s able to weave through and be on a track with anybody. So that’s No. 4. Damn, man, No. 5.”

For the final position, Luda struggled with choosing between Lil Wayne and Eminem. “I was honestly gonna put Lil Wayne. Damn, this is hard because it’s like you got Lil Wayne… You got Eminem, but Imma have to go with Lil Wayne because the body of work and his consistency and he’s been in the game almost 30 years, bruh.” It seems that he was paying attention to living rappers, so Ludacris added Tupac and Notorious B.I.G. and honorable mentions. Do you agree with his list?

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Lil Wayne has been catching some flack for his recent comments about police brutality in response to George Floyd's murder, and he's been doing some damage control on Young Money Radio ever since. In the wake of the police killing of Floyd in Minneapolis last month, Wayne made some remarks that did not sit well with some people. "We have to stop viewing it with such a broad view, meaning we have to stop placing the blame on the whole force and the whole everybody or a certain race or everybody with a badge." Wayne told Fat Joe. "We have to actually get into who that person is. And if we want to place the blame on anybody, it should be ourselves for not doing more than what we think we're doing."

He has since attempted to explain his stance by speaking on his own upbringing in New Orleans where he used to see Black people get brutalized by police all the time. However, he also used a famous encounter with a white officer in his youth to further justify why he feels the way he does about the issue of police brutality.

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"My life was saved when I was young," Wayne recalled on Friday's episode of Young Money Radio. "I was 12 or something, I think. Shot myself. I was saved by a white cop, Uncle Bob. So you have to understand...you have to understand the way I view police, period. I was saved by a white cop. There was a bunch of black cops that jumped over me when they saw me at that door, laying on the floor with that hole in my chest. He refused to. Those black cops jumped over me, and ran through the crib, and said, 'We found the gun, we found this, we found that.' He said, 'I found this baby on this floor I need to get to a hospital.' He didn’t wait for an ambulance. He took his car. He made somebody drive it, and he made sure that I lived."

Wayne has spoken about "Uncle Bob," AKA Deputy Robert Hoobler, on a few occasions in the past, most memorably during his I Am Hip Hop Award acceptance speech at the 2018 BET Hip-Hop Awards. It's worth noting that Hoobler was fired from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff Department in 2012 after repeatedly tasing a man while calling him racial slurs, including the N-word. Sheriff Newell Normand even considered filing criminal charges against Hoobler for the incident.

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While Wayne fails to mention this detail, he does recall several other instances in which the police were blatantly racist towards him while he was growing up. All of these encounters, good and bad, he explains, have contributed to his current position on police. "So before you want to speculate about anything, understand that I go through situations, too, and we all got our situations, so don’t judge no one for no reason," he said. "Do you. Help out in any kind of way you want to help out, any kind of way you can."

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Snoop Dogg gave his opinion on racism, police brutality, and more during his appearance on the newest episode of Lil Wayne‘s Young Money Radio, Friday.

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“I’m always gon’ say it’s gotten worse but through technology and platforms like social media and people having phones with cameras on ’em, it’s being broadcasted,” Snoop said. “Racism been going on, police brutality been going on, we been trying to tell y’all. It’s just now getting filmed. We been getting beat on by the police … and the camera is the best witness we got in court. Cause he don’t lie, he don’t change his story and he can’t be paid off.”

“I’m proud as a Black people … it’s not surprising,” he added in regards to the unity behind the protests. “Our generation took it as far as we could take it. This new generation? They’re taking it farther than we did. It’s what its supposed to be. We can only go so far so now it’s up to them to take it to the mountain top. Like Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, they could only go so far. Then they gave it to the Black Panthers; the Black Panthers could only take it so far. Then we got it, and it’s like, now it’s up to y’all. The beauty of is you got White, Asian, Latino working with us this time as opposed to us doing it on our own.”

Snoop went on to advocate for the defunding of police departments: “These police departments are overfunded and they’re over-protected. We need to start taking that money out of their pocket and put it back into our communities where we can police ourselves,” the Doggystyle rapper said. “Cause you know like I know, ain’t no police like a gangbanger in the neighborhood that don’t gangbang no more. He mean more than the governor, he mean more than anybody!”

Check out the entire interview below.

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At the launch of the George Floyd protests last week, Lil Wayne gave his opinion about people becoming vocal about police brutality. “We have to stop viewing it with such a broad view, meaning we have to stop placing the blame on the whole force and the whole everybody or a certain race or everybody with a badge.” Lil Wayne added at the time, “We have to actually get into who that person is. And if we want to place the blame on anybody, it should be ourselves for not doing more than what we think we’re doing.”

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The rapper received an onslaught of backlash from fans, foes, and his fellow celebrities, but on Friday’s (June 5) episode of Young Money Radio, the rapper told Killer Mike that people have to understand how he was raised to get why he made the comments that he did. “Mike, last week people misinterpreted my words,” Lil Wayne began. “I respect the effort of the people to seek justice and what they doin’. I just knew it was time for more action than a tweet. Also, my mama always told me—I sat in the passenger seat getting picked up from school every day and dropped off. I would look outside that window in the ‘hood, so you gon’ see situations when you riding home. I might make a comment or give my opinion on what I just saw.”

Weezy said his mother would give him a swift smack in the mouth. “Mind you f*ckin’ business,” he remembered his mother telling him. “Mind your business. You don’t even ask, ‘Why you smack me? Why I need to mind my business?’ But you know one thing, I need to mind my damn business. So, for folks out there that figure that whatever, Wayne gon’ say this or… Listen. I’m from New Orleans, understand. I’m from New Orleans where, what we’re seeing ladies and gentlemen around the world finally because [of] the cameraphones and all that, baby, we went through that every day. We saw that, we went through that every week. We gave police names, just cause of who they were and how they were, and we got used to that… That was the system. That’s what I grew up in. So, don’t blame me, don’t fault me. But if you do, you already know.”

Killer Mike agreed with Lil Wayne, adding that where he’s from, things were the same way so he didn’t fault him for making the remarks that he did. They spoke about ways that creatives and celebrities can help organize and become community leaders, including encouraging their followers to patronize certain lesser-known, black-owned businesses.

This was not an ordinary week. We won't pretend as though it was. There is a revolution happening outside and, although we would love to solely focus on music and the regular hip-hop news, that's not entirely appropriate right now.

We have made an effort across our editorial staff to bring you news from the protests in addition to some hip-hop news. This week, labels and artists decided to push back their releases and, although there was still some new music released today, it was to a much lesser degree than what was expected.

Every week, we update our TIDAL-exclusive TIDAL Wave playlist with the songs that our staff has been feeling the hardest. If you've been turning to music for a temporary distraction from the world that surrounds us, check out the updates we've made this week.

We start off with one of the stand-outs from Lil Wayne's brand new Funeral deluxe edition before bringing you the fire "T.D." freestyle from Lil Yachty's new album with Tierra Whack, A$AP Rocky, and Tyler, The Creator. Next up on the docket is Conway's "Front Lines" effort before Freddie Gibbs and The Alchemist take over.

We've also got new cuts from G Herbo, Kevin Gates, SAINt JHN and Future, RMR, ROSALÍA and Travis Scott, 6LACK, Aminé, and more. Check out our individual contributions below and sign up for a TIDAL trial here.

Alex Zidel (Editorial)

Lil Yachty - Whew' Chile
Lil Yachty & Tierra Whack - T.D. (feat. A$AP Rocky & Tyler, The Creator)
Slimelife Shawty - Street N**** Dream (feat. Rylo Rodriguez & DT)
Gunna - DOLLAZ ON MY HEAD (feat. Young Thug)
Juice WRLD & Trippie Redd - Tell Me U Luv Me

Alex Cole (Editorial)

Lil Yachty & Lil Keed - Range Rover Sports Truck
RMR - I'm Not Over You
G Herbo - Trenches
Ace Hood - Facts
GASHI - Paranoid

Mitch Findlay (Editorial)

Lil Yachty & Tierra Whack - T.D. (feat. A$AP Rocky & Tyler, The Creator)
Lil Wayne - Russian Roulette (feat. Benny The Butcher & Conway)
Conway - Front Lines
Joell Ortiz & KXNG Crooked - Get Ya Money
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Frank Lucas (feat. Benny The Butcher)

Erika Marie (Editorial)

Lil Wayne - Russian Roulette (feat. Benny The Butcher & Conway)
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Frank Lucas (feat. Benny The Butcher)
Lil Wayne - Help (feat. Tory Lanez)
Kamaiyah - Extravagant
The LOX - Gave It To ‘Em

Cole Blake (Editorial)

JPEGMAFIA - CUTIE PIE!
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Something to Rap About (feat. Tyler, The Creator)
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Frank Lucas (feat. Benny The Butcher)
Lucki - Nigo
Conway - Front Lines

Lynn S (Editorial)

ROSALÍA & Travis Scott - TKN
6LACK - ATL Freestyle
Lucky Daye - Shoulda (feat. Babyface)
Aminé - Riri

Paul Pirotta (Sales)

Lil Wayne - Russian Roulette (feat. Benny The Butcher & Conway)
SAINt JHN - Roses Remix (feat. Future)
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Scottie Beam (feat. Rick Ross)

Aron A (Editorial)

Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - God Is Perfect
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Scottie Beam (feat. Rick Ross)
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist - Skinny Suge
Kevin Gates - Grandmotha Grave

Rose Lilah (Editorial)

SAINt JHN - Roses Remix (feat. Future)
Gunna - DO BETTER
Gunna - I’M ON SOME
Lucky Daye - Shoulda (feat. Babyface)