I Am Music Tour  features T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Keyshia Cole, Gym Class Heroes and Keri Hilson.

The scorching success of Wayne’s latest album, Tha Carter III and its eight Grammy nominations has recast Lil Wayne as a burgeoning mainstream pop star, a role he eagerly assumed Tuesday night, as his “I Am Music” tour stopped at the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. Literally exploding onto the stage through a trapdoor, Wayne raced through a muscular, hyperactive 80-minute performance, touching on all phases of his career but leaning most heavily on the critically acclaimed Tha Carter III. Backed by a live band and a DJ, Weezy transformed himself into a hurricane of dreadlocks, often hunched over and flinging the knotty, thumping rhymes of Mr. Carter or A Milli against the floor like razor blades. While a handful of guest stars wandered on and off the stage throughout the night, the evening belonged to its diminutive star.

 Also enjoying the show: Nivea, Playaz Circle, Baby, Slim, Fairley M. (Interscope Records)

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Lil Wayne f. T-Pain & Mack Maine -- Got Money

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