{"id":135157,"date":"2025-02-17T00:06:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T05:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/17\/lil-wayne-recruits-the-roots-for-singles-medley-on-snl50-special\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T00:06:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T05:06:30","slug":"lil-wayne-recruits-the-roots-for-singles-medley-on-snl50-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/02\/17\/lil-wayne-recruits-the-roots-for-singles-medley-on-snl50-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne Recruits The Roots for Singles Medley on \u2018SNL50\u2019\u00a0Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLil Wayne has joined the eclectic roster of musical guests to share a career-spanning singles medley on Sunday night\u2019s (Feb. 16)<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/t\/snl50\/\"> <em>SNL50<\/em><\/a><em>: The Anniversary Special<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWayne was joined by The Roots and DJ T. Lewis for his performance, which opened with 2018 single <em>Uproar<\/em>, and saw Weezy run through other tunes from his <em>Tha Carter<\/em> series of albums, including his lone Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper as a solo artist \u201cLollipop\u201d, followed by \u201c6 Foot 7 Foot\u201d and \u201cMrs. Officer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe lion\u2019s share of the set was devoted to closer \u201cA Milli\u201d, which currently serves as Wayne\u2019s standard set-closer, almost 17 years since it was first released. His non-musical contributions to the <em>SNL50<\/em> appearance were limited, with the musician closing out his set with a simple, \u201cThank you, happy 50th\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mrs. Officer \u2013 Lil Wayne<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SNL50?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#SNL50<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VMxauXNGnU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VMxauXNGnU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Saturday Night Live \u2013 SNL (@nbcsnl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcsnl\/status\/1891336216743743980?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis performance also marks Wayne\u2019s fourth time appearing on a <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> broadcast as a musical guest, having first made his debut back in 2008 as part of season 34 opening episode. Featuring Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps on hosting duties, Wayne performed \u201cGot Money\u201d and \u201cLollipop\u201d during that initial appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTwo years later, he appeared with Eminem and also shared a solo performance of \u201c6 Foot 7 Foot\u201d, in an episode which saw Jeff Bridges as host. Wayne would return again in 2018 to appear in a Liev Schreiber-hosted episode where he performed \u201cCan\u2019t Be Broken\u201d with Halsey and \u201cUproar\u201d with Swizz Beatz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tEarlier this month, Lil Wayne <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/lil-wayne-tha-carter-vi-teaser-release-cetaphil-ad-1235894574\/\">confirmed<\/a> that he would be releasing his highly-anticipated <em>Tha Carter VI<\/em> album on June 6, announcing the news as part of an ad for Cetaphil. The third, fourth and fifth installments of <em>Tha Carter<\/em> each topped the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/billboard-200\/\"> Billboard 200<\/a> and the Drake-assisted \u201cShe Will\u201d has had a second life vaulting the 2011 track to top the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/lil-wayne-drake-she-will-number-1-tiktok-billboard-top-50-1235893118\/\"> TikTok Billboard Top 50<\/a> on the Feb. 8-dated tally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>SNL50: The Anniversary Special<\/em> is airing Sunday night, following Friday\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/lists\/snl50-concert-best-moments-lady-gaga-cher-nirvana\/\"> <em>SNL50: The Homecoming Concert<\/em> on Friday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/culture\/tv-film\/lil-wayne-recruits-the-roots-singles-medley-snl50-special-1235903824\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Wayne has joined the eclectic roster of musical guests to share a career-spanning singles medley on Sunday night\u2019s (Feb. 16) SNL50: The Anniversary Special. Wayne was joined by The Roots and DJ T. Lewis for his performance, which opened with 2018 single Uproar, and saw Weezy run through other tunes from his Tha Carter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}