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In late August, while performing at the Starplex Pavilion in Dallas, Rae Sremmurd’s reigning hip-hop hook king, Swae Lee, was hit in the face when an overzealous fan threw her cell phone on stage at him. While the intent wasn’t malicious -- the fan just wanted him to take a selfie with her smart device -- her aim was off. The phone struck Swae in the face, busting open his lip, leaving him bloody and having to get stitches that night. 
 
He was irate immediately in the aftermath. 
 
“On my momma I’m finna sue you,” he said onstage after he got hit. “Why you throwing shit on the stage? You throwing shit like a muthafucka baseball.”
 
Recently however, at Rolling Loud in Oakland, Swae displayed a serious change of heart. After he and his brother Slim Jxmmi got off stage, Swae spoke exclusively to LiveXLive, revealing a new plan of action for the fan who struck him several weeks ago: no lawsuit. 
 
“The hoes say I’m beautiful with the scar,” Swae bragged. “It all worked out perfectly. Shout out to the girl that threw that the phone at me. Matter of fact, I want to reach out to the girl that threw the phone at me.  Matter of fact I wanna reach out to the girl. I think I scared her. I wanna apologize to her. I really want to invite her to like five shows for free. On me.”
 
Rae Sremmurd was a part of an all-star lineup that ignited the stage in the Bay. Young Thug, Lil Skies, Gucci Mane, Wiz Khalifa, E-40 and Travis Scott were just some of the names that gave frenzied performances. You can see more from Rolling Loud right here on LiveXLive.

Lil Wayne celebrated his 36th birthday by dropping his long-awaited album, "Tha Carter V." Wayne's been working on this project in some capacity since 2012, and it faced several label-dispute-related delays up until this point. Weezy's in full control of his material now, so it's time to check out "Tha Carter V" in its entirety as our Album of the Week.

Kane Brown will release his new album Experiment on November 9^th, but I recently had the chance to go listen to it with some other music industry people here in Nashville. The first thing I can say is, if you liked his first album, you’re gonna love this one even more. There are a lot of different sounds and styles on it and he does them all well.

When he played the song “Homesick” at the album listening event, the video he’s since released publicly was playing along with it. Now, I thought I’d had all the emotions removed from my body, but this? This made me feel one. So don’t say I didn’t warn you. It’s ok if you ugly cry. I did.

Watch it here.

And if you want to hear more of it, check it out on Slacker’s Nashville Now.

We're counting up your favorite Lil Wayne songs using our Engagement Quotient, or EQ, which adds up plays, hearts, skips and bans--and the list kicks off with #1.

Comfortably in the sweet spot of mainstream fringe since the 90s, Chan Marshall's music has always channeled the plight of a heart that is fragile and for better/worse, forever open. Basically what I'm saying is, when you go thru a breakup, her catalog is as necessary as a box of Kleenex.

It's been six years since her last album and staying true to self, the ups have been up and the downs have been down.  She had a baby, got sh*t on by her record label and thanks to Rihanna, turned a momentary 'micro-heartbreak' into song. *Did I just coin a new term?

Click here to read a far more eloquent synopsis, compliments of The New York Times.

"An old lover, he was picking me up and he opened the door and that song was on the radio," she recalled. "He said, 'Oh, there's my girl,' and I thought he was talking about me, you know? Then the song ended and he turned off the radio, and I realized he was talking about Rihanna." A few years later, not long after the birth of her son, she heard it again in a taxi and cried the whole ride. That night, she had plans to meet a friend at a karaoke bar, and decided "Stay" would be the only song she performed. She sang it 16 times."

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go listen to it 16 times.