This is a big one, folks. Besides a Friday filled with fantastic rap (take your pick: Lil Wayne, Chimurenga Renaissance, or Devin the Dude), this weekend also features Kremwerk’s sure-to-be excellent ugly sweater anniversary, the Psychedelic Holiday Freakout, and much more, so enough jibber-jawing! Let’s take a look at this weekend’s best. For all the live music this weekend, check out our Things To Do calendar.
FRIDAY
1. Lil Wayne
“It’s funny to think that Lil Wayne may now, in 2015, find himself at the most interesting point in his career. This is the post-Rikers Island stint, post-assassination attempt, post-rock-music foray, current-Cash Money lawsuit-pressing, continuously syrup-slugging Weezy, and for better or worse, he’s probably more himself than ever.” TODD HAMM
2. Chimurenga Renaissance
“It is fitting that the most experimental, dazzling, and even dangerous work by Chimurenga Renaissance (Tendai “Baba” Maraire and Hussein Kalonji), the upcoming Girlz with Gunz, finds its inspiration in the post-colonial fire of the revolutionary African woman. The duo translates this fire (ballots or the bullets) into a music that’s richly and thickly innovative. Chimurenga Renaissance’s contribution to the trans-African Black Constellation (Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, Erik Blood) is very bright indeed.” CHARLES MUDEDE
