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Lil Wayne has stuff to do. The man is busy. He's winning Grammys. Putting out even more mixtapes with stupidly awesome covers. Learning how to make (?) rock music. So when he made a premature exit from a Rochester, N.Y. show on October 26 due to apparent sound issues, it was a dick move...but sorta understandable. Why should Lil Wayne have to deal with bush-league monitors? He can't hear his guitar!

But then he blew off a December 6 make-up date and a January 21 make-up make-up date, which got promoter Ed Strickland angry enough to file a $1.3 million lawsuit against the rapper, according to the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. Apparently, the Jan. 21 show was cancelled because Wayne's people didn't realize how much time it would take to travel to Calgary the next night. So not only did Rochester get the shaft, they're on the wrong end of a city-to-city battle with Calgary. Embarrassing. Wayne's people blamed "band logistics" for the snafu, but we have our own rampantly fact-less guesses on why the New Orleans shit talker stuck it to good old Crotchfester:

-- Wayne can see the hate behind Rochester Mayor Robert Duffy's eyes.
-- Too many potential 3G dead zones.
-- The Genesee River's natural beauty just doesn't speak to him.
-- He forgot...three times.
-- As a man of words, he was offended by the city's inexhaustibly lame "Be in your seats. Not in the streets." stay-in-school campaign.
-- I mean, have you ever been to Rochester? Me neither. (No disrespect.)
-- Dissuaded by measly three-line "Nightlife" description on Rochester's Wiki page.
-- Two words: parking tickets.
-- He is deathly afraid of the mascot for Rochester's minor league hockey team, simply known as the Moose.