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● Lil Wayne revealed in an interview with MTV that he's got a record full of love songs, written mostly during his stint at Rikers, ready for an album that he calls DEVOL, "'cause that's 'loved' spelled backwards." But, as "How To Love" Weezy will have you know, "what I mean by 'my version of love songs' is meaning, they're not saying 'I love you,' they're saying, you know?" [NahRight]

The fissure between Axl Rose and his original Guns N' Roses bandmates -- Slash, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagen, and Steven Adler -- is a well-recorded one, fraught with the ego showdowns and cocaine blowouts only found in hair metal lore. But could it be healed in time for the band's April 14 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? That's what GNR keyboardist Dizzy Reed thinks, telling Billboard, "I know that all the original band is going to be there." Reed isn't a founding member, but he's played with the band since 1990 making him the longest tenured non-Axl player. "I don't know exactly what's going to go down," he added. "It's one of those things I'm sure will all come together and be really cool. I'm just going to go in with a good attitude and a clear head and a grateful heart."

The 2012 inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame were announced this morning and, unsurprisingly, the list of five performers encompasses a wide variety of dudes, and just one lady. The five inductees in the performer category are as follows: Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan, Laura Nyro, the collected bands The Small Faces / The Faces, and Beastie Boys. Blues guitarist Freddie King will also be inducted as an early influencer of rock and roll. This is the first year that Guns N' Roses were on the ballot, whereas the rest of the performers had been nominated in previous years.