Lil Wayne Plotting "Carter III" Reissue, Expecting First Son

Lil Wayne is planning on re-releasing his platinum-selling Tha Carter III with a bunch of brand new songs, Weezy revealed at this weekend's BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta. While giving his acceptance speech after winning the ceremony's Lyricist of the Year Award, Wayne shared some more good news with the audience: He's expecting his first son soon. "I got a son about to be born any day now, so shout-out to him. Pray for me," the MC told the crowd. Weezy also picked up the night's People Champ Award and performed with T-Pain and Ludacris on a pair of songs. As for the TC3 reissue, Wayne promises the bonus cuts are not part of the anticipated Tha Carter IV, which the rapper is also working on.

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“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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