10 Ready-made Excuses For When Lil Wayne Pushes Back 'Dedication 4' Again
by Aaron Zorgel
August 30, 2012
There’s still no word from either DJ Drama or Lil Wayne as to whether Dedication 4 will actually be released today, which has us thinking that it’s about to get pushed back yet again. We decided to help out Weezy with a bunch of ready-made excuses, so he can assuage the ire of his eager fans.
Hip-hop album delays seem to be pretty commonplace lately. Kendrick Lamar pushed good kid, m.A.A.d. city back to October 22nd. Mellowhype pushed Numbers back to October 9th. G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer has been pushed back to the point that it’s officially not even going to come out in the summer anymore.
Fans of Lil Wayne have spent the summer months waiting patiently for his DJ Drama-hosted Dedication 4 mixtape. Originally set for an August 15th release, Weezy decided to push it back, so that the spotlight would shine properly on his friend 2 Chainz, whose Def Jam debut came out on the same day. A week later, Wayne took to Twitter to announce the revised release date:
Some of Lil Wayne’s fans were up until after midnight last night, expecting the mixtape to arrive on DatPiff in the early hours of the morning. I guess they didn’t get the message that DJ Drama sent out via Twitter around 8PM PST (11PM EST):
Lil Wayne fans needed a martyr, and it looked like DJ Drama was their best option. The hashtag #BlameDJDrama trended worldwide last night.
There’s still no word from either DJ Drama or Lil Wayne as to whether Dedication 4 will actually be released today, which has us thinking that it’s about to get pushed back yet again. We decided to help out Weezy with a bunch of ready-made excuses, so he can assuage the ire of his eager fans.
10 Excuses For When Lil Wayne Pushes Back Dedication 4 Again
10. “Sorry fans, I was too busy skateboarding.”
9. “Sorry fans, I didn’t want to steal the spotlight from my girl Alanis Morisette’s new album.”
8. “Sorry fans, I was too busy ripping guitar solos all week.”
7. “Sorry fans, it’s DJ Drama’s fault.”
6. “Sorry fans, I had to go to the hospital to get my skin-tight zebra print pants removed.”
5. “Sorry fans, my Auto-Tunechi© unit was malfunctioning.”
4. “Sorry fans, I fell down the stairs because I was wearing these clunky snowboard boots.”
3. “Sorry fans, but I thought I told you I quit rapping to focus on skateboarding.”
2. “Sorry fans, but my boy Drake is in a wheelchair now, and I have to take care of him.”
1. “Sorry fans, I forgot.”
