Concert Review: Lil Wayne at Sprint Center, 1/09/09

“I wouldn’t care if you was a prostitute,” Lil’ Wayne assured the many ladies of the sold-out crowd at the Sprint Center Friday night. As the rapper delivered a brief but heartfelt defense of a love that transcends street-walking during the middle of his set, it was clear that the cheering audience was hooked.

While Wayne couldn’t bring his eight Grammy nominations for Tha Carter III with him to the stage, the remarkably small New Orleans native performed with a swaggering confidence and disarming friendliness that comes from a surplus of popular and critical adulation. Taking the stage before him on the I Am Music Tour were singers Keyshia Cole and T-Pain, plus the bandGym Class Heroes.

Click on photo for slide show of all the acts.