Drink Champs - Episode 196 w/ Lil Wayne

Episode Date: January 31, 2020

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs. On today’s episode The Champs chop it up with one of the most influential artists in the game, the legend, Lil Wayne. An artist with no ceilings Wayne shares with us the importance of never being afraid to be yourself.Having a career that spans four decades Lil Wayne has been a master at reinventing himself. From being the youngest Hot Boy on Cash Money Records, Mixtape Weezy grew as a lyricist and became a rock star, forever standing tall among his peers, the GOATS. The Young Money Executive is responsible for putting on stars such as Nicki Minaj and Drake, just to name a few.In this episode Lil Wayne shares a lot of stories that span from the early days of Cash Money Records, to recording his classic mixtapes. Wayne shares with us how he evolved as an artist and how he transitioned to a CEO. Weezy drops gems, revealing how he came up with “BLING, BLING” and revealing who his all time favorite artist is.While we discuss topics such as sports and skateboarding, Lil Wayne finds out for the first time who co-signed his feature on Destiny’s Child “Solider” Remix. As a featured artist Lil Wayne has been featured in almost 200 songs, Weezy reflects back on some of those hit records and shares how important it was to build relationships with these artists over the years.Lil Wayne makes a special announcement on this episode regarding his NEW ALBUM. In addition the Big Homie also surprises Weezy with a message, complimenting him in the highest honor.Respect to Lil Wayne. As a newly inducted DC Alumni we’re giving him the nickname O.G. Wayne! #FlowersFollow:Drink Champshttp://www.drinkchamps.comhttp://www.instagram.com/drinkchampshttp://www.twitter.com/drinkchampshttp://www.facebook.com/drinkchampsDJ EFNhttp://www.crazyhood.comhttp://www.instagram.com/whoscrazyhttp://www.twitter.com/djefnhttp://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductionsN.O.R.E.http://www.instagram.com/therealnoreagahttp://www.twitter.com/noreagaCivic Tax Relief: To learn more, call 800-601-7780.--- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/drinkchamps/support Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's DJ EFN. And it's motherfucking Drink Champs. Motherfucking Yappy Hour. Make some noise! And right now, I know the brother's very humble, but I'm going to say this. I'm going to say this. When we talk about the best rappers alive right now, this man is at this table. When you talk about the longevity and richness of a career, when you talk about this man's been rhyming since he was eight years old, been doing it since 12 and 14, and he's still out here relevant. He has a whole generation

that looks like him. They follow him. It's a religion. It's a religion. When it comes Father's Day, Father's Day, I know you better have 3700 birthday

or Father's Day cards because all this new generation followed him. He has been an originator. He has also, not only that, not only for himself, but he's held down a whole label. Then had a whole career. I feel like he's like the hip-hop Michael Jackson.

Stop it. Like, I mean, in the most respectful way. Like, you know how Michael had three different careers? Like a child star, then a middle star, then a grown man star. I feel like this is hip-hop. That makes a lot of motherfuckers in case you don't know what the fuck I'm talking about by the way

went platinum in a week twice on niggas like the first time first nigga I know that went platinum in a week holy moly guacamole

and represents for hip-hop in case you hold on cause I got so much accolades I'm gonna keep telling you this is one of the most genuine people I ever met

if Rain tell you he gonna do something he's gonna do tell you he's going to do something, he's going to do it. And he's always had. And I just want to big him up to his face. Make some goddamn motherfucking noise.

I think we got to drop a little off your name. I think you're just OG Wayne at this point. I appreciate it. Can I roll with that for now? OG Wayne? You know you're

coming with that, man. You know you're OG Wayne. OG man. You know you're OG. OG Wayne. We call you OG Wayne. Yo, but do you realize, like, a whole generation you influenced? Yeah, I realize that. God damn it, make some noise for that. There's so many kids that look like you.

Like, I mean, I feel like you was, like, the you was the first rock star, like, embrace it. Other people were considered rock stars, but I feel like you was the first person to embrace that. I damn sure went after it. I damn sure went after that title right there. I damn sure said more to myself. That was a point when I'm in my room by myself, meaning that was a point

where I had to tell myself, like, it's time to stop. You know, time to stop saying you look like one or stop trying to make songs that sound like it just go for it there's nothing to like no stealing yeah picked up a guitar right when holler that miss betty white shout out miss betty oh yeah yeah shout out miss betty right shout out miss betty and holler that her she gave me a few vocal lessons wow and she's the one who actually taught me a few the strings that's how the love that's what how the love yeah she taught me a few strings strings. That's how to love this We have a little yeah, she taught me a few strings on it, and she actually taught me for

What something was it for the for me like like quarter like summer song was that? My letter so soft that is so soft. She taught me the strings to that one I felt like after like Andre 3000 did hey y'all I feel like was that like a direct inspiration for you I definitely looked at Andre and what he did and stuff, but you know, Dre went all the way there. So what I always kept it to me, I always wanted to say, you know, it was impossible for me to go all the way somewhere when I am who I am. And so all I wanted to do was make sure I go there and I go, I mean, I bring Lil Wayne to that. Yeah, I'm not going to, I ain't about to go there and become such and such. I'm going to just bring Lil Wayne over that. Whatever you were comfortable with. Yeah, I ain't about to go there and become such and such.

I'm going to just bring little Wayne over to your world, take over for a little minute, you know, do what I do for a second, end up all on the country musical with Keira Rock with a guitar in my hand singing Sweet Home Alabama, that's all I'm saying. I made it. I'm good after that. Now is it true you spit all your rhymes in a book and then you said them all and then said you're never going to write a rhyme again?

Yeah. When did that happen? Oh, man, that was a long time ago, man. That was, I put out a mixtape. It was called 10,000 Bars. And that was my last time I've ever written, rapped off of anything written. You could hear the paper flinging during the... In the session where you're spitting?

I did it with a real... This was a long time ago, so I did a mixtape with a real DJ. Thank you, brother. I did it with a real DJ, so meaning we was in his basement, and so you could just see him through his glass, and so he would just put the...

Show me what record is next. He about to start spinning. He'd give me a little... Oh, so he was cutting it live, like, throwing it in? Give me a little, you know, give me it. So before you start putting it in, you know. Do-do, do-do. And I already know the song because he showed me this.

I know the tempo, what's coming up next. I already had a paper ready. I see do-do, do-do, do-do. Do-do, do-do, do-do. Do-do, do-do, do-do. Oh, shit. Get ready. Once I got tired, we stopped.

So now we get a good package of what we gonna do next. Five good beats we gonna do next, and let's get it. That's how we did it. That was the last time I ever, and to this day, I think, I don't know if he's still in that crib, but I know for a fact, as I've seen him years past, he was like, man, I left all that still on my floor in the basement, up there in the room, man. It's like still on my floor. That's history.

Somebody gonna go buy that house now. So how do you remember your rhymes? Because we smoke weed. Ever since I knew you, we've been smoking weed. So how do you like, because you say some important bars. I thought you was a philosopher. I thought you was a scientist at one point. Because the way you put syllables together.

But how do you ever forget that shit? I forget it a lot. But it's only forgotten when it's time to perform it. Yeah, when it's time, if you ask me what I said and we're in a conversation, and you ask me what I said, it's right off the bat, I know exactly what I said. It's unforgettable. Because also, what I said, all we do is smoke, but all I also do is work. It's all I do.

So it's like asking me what I wore yesterday. Right. Yeah. Now, the Packers today wasn't good. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. It's all good. But you're a sports fan.

It's all good. I was two seconds away from putting that drain on. I was just going there, just drinking that drain and taking it down. Now, when a loss like that happens, do you blame, like, the Packers, or do you blame that it was a great team? Oh, no, they played a great team. They played a great team. But I also think that with that said, we're going to have a wonderful Super Bowl.

Mahomes? Yeah, Mahomes against that. Of course, the NFL and State Forum, everybody would love to see Mahomes against Rodgers in the Super Bowl. Right. That's right. They both think, oh, shit,

I need to put that on the cover. Everybody would love that, but it's going to be a dope Super Bowl. And there's Super Bowls out here. Out here.

Yeah. You ever know, at Super Bowl 54, you know, they do the Roman Nunes thing. So right now, actually,

it looks like it says Super Bowl Live because it's Super Bowl L-I-V. And so, you know. Shout out to Headline and stuff Yeah, like man, I'm like man, that's right there, it's just meant for it so yeah Now let's talk about that for a second at one point if a rapper wanted to see Lil Wayne

it was uh they just they were really gonna live on Sunday and they could probably get a meeting with you like and and They get a meeting with him then? I mean like you know he's a good guy like At one point they used to have little things like this little Wayne couch like whether he was there or not These to hold you down whether you was there or not. Like, they named you Little Twist or somebody. That's my folks. Like, come over there, but it's only be your people.

I really respected that. Yeah, Mac on the end. Like, I would be, no, Mac would be on the, you on the road or somewhere. But like, you know what I'm saying? I always respected. I didn't know about that. But how did you, because, you know, coming from New Orleans, right? Obviously, was it Katrina that made you stay full-time in Miami?

No, what happened was, this was way before Katrina, man. I think I was at least 19 or 20. We came out here to shoot a video called Shine. It was Cash Money Day. We came out here and we was on ATVs on the video, riding up the beach. I had never experienced that in my life I have never said never seen nothing like that. I never left Miami since that weekend And when I first came out here was this circle house that you guys was, or y'all went straight? Y'all was in Circle House. Yeah, we was in Circle House.

Do y'all feel like that kind of changed the Cash Money sound because it was like something different? Yeah, because when we was in New Orleans, our sessions would be what the conversations was from everybody's day. Everybody lived in a different part of New Orleans, and I was the only one that was actually in school. And so everybody's

conversation when we got to the studio that night was a totally different conversation. You got Turk, Turk got this conversation, he's probably like two years older than me, so he's talking about whatever guys two years older than me talk about. They waiting, everybody in there waiting to hear what Juby gonna talk about though,

cause Juby coming with those project stories, something happening in the project every day. Stunned I'd be sitting there listening, and be like, what? You're from Magnolia, right? Say that again. That's a song. That's how it happened every time. Once we got to Miami,

ain't no more project stories. Everybody moved to Miami or just you? Yeah, Baby used to always move. I moved here on my own. I moved here to stay here, but we recorded out here all the time. Baby always, it was his thing. Everybody got to go. I don't care if he went to jail, everybody got to go to jail.

You got to go with Baby. So we was all out here. So what I mean by that is that did change the landscape of the music because there isn't no more project stories. And we waking up on the beach every day, so that's when you got songs like back that ass up and shit like that Makes sense, I mean, you know, I mean it was definitely influenced. Yeah Now what would you develop like the skating?

Skating I probably been skating now for probably at least 10 at least 10 years now So I was just watching this this damn TV every day, and they had a little homie on there skating, and the homie, like, he was having the time of his damn life, and I was like, you know what, I want to have that same time of my damn life, too, so. Why not, and I had a big ass roof at the crib I was standing at the time, so I called the homie, and was like, yo, can I have it, can you make a skate park

on my roof, and he was like. It was here in Miami, because I heard you had a, you had a half bike. And Hit Factory as well, roof? It was here in Miami, because I heard you had a... Yeah. And Hit Factory as well, right? That was on Shout Out Bob, man. That was the dude, the man that runs, that owns the Hit Factory. That was all on him, man.

I ain't never asked that man to put no skate park. He built ramps and everything? Oh, that was the room. I just rolled with it. I said, wait, wait, shit, I just rolled with it. Your dog, yeah, your dog, that's my man. I'm forever loyal to him, yeah. Hell yeah.

Forever loyal to him. So, like I said, I told my homie,, he's a dog. That's my man. I'm forever loyal to him. Yeah. Forever loyal to him. So, like I said, I told my homie, can you build a park on the roof? He built a ramp. That's what I asked him to build because I didn't know what the hell. I thought that's what skating was. But when I hear a ramp on the roof, it sounds very dangerous. Yeah, skating is dangerous regardless. It is dangerous.

Yeah. He would come there and teach me how to skate every day before we start doing anything though, before that session start. Every day, made me pad up everywhere, put on all pads and stand in 25 different positions. What I mean by different positions, meaning do that, do this, do that. It's like training for any sport. 25 different. On the skateboard or off the skateboard?

On the skateboard. Okay. You stand on the top of the ramp. Every position, push me. And push me off the ramp until the ramp to fall. And so I fall 25 different ways. He always would tell me, listen, by the end of this stuff, man. How to fall.

By the end of this stuff, I'm going to be able to push you over a thousand ways. I just want you to know when you do fall on your skateboard,'re not gonna fall not one of these ways. I'm gonna teach you how to fall before I teach you how to skate Very dangerous. So Mr. Miyagi shit right there. Make some noise for that. Shout out Jay. I done had three surgeries already man. I'm gonna tell you something Wayne. I believe it. I've been doing this for four years, right? Four years, right? We've been doing this. We've celebrated four years in March.

In March, we'll be celebrating four years. Official four years. We'll be doing this, right? I guess I did it like a couple of, just this. Just so you know, without me saying, Mac, he on every night on my line, Mac. Every night. Come on, God damn it.

Y'all on every night. Every night. So I just God damn it. Y'all run up. Every night. So I just wanted to let you know something. When I do these interviews, I usually go to Twitter and I say, yo, I got Wayne or I got Fab or I got 50 Cent or I got Baby or I got whatever. And then I do that on the tweets. Then I go to my personal industry and I send them pretty much the same message. I have never got so many people who have so many beautiful stories to say about you, my nigga.

You are really a legend. Because a lot of niggas are goats. But a lot of niggas ain't goats to their own peers. You are a goat to your own goddamn motherfucking peers. And for that, I want to salute you to your face. Because so many people want to tell people how much a person is great. When, I want to tell you, yo, listen to me. I've done this for, like I said, four years.

And people, when I said I got Wayne. You talking about this show? This show. I said, that's weird. Listen, I'm going to say a question. Just so you know, my first card, nigga, I was banging that shit. My first Lexus cool. You tripped, nigga.

Where this question came from? I mean, niggas on the run. Eat it, nigga. Okay, I'm going to see you. Okay, hold on. I'm going to go around the place. Okay. Let's give it away. Let me start with that one.

Okay. Okay. Okay. He tried to sign Young Money, offered the Masters, but he wanted money. He's going to claim it was $100,000, but that's not true. But it certainly wasn't $2 million. That's the question? That's the question. Say it again. Okay.

I'm trying to see if you know who this is coming from. Gotcha. Say it again. He tried to sign Young Money early, offered him the Masters, but he wanted the money, though. He would have claimed that it was $100K, but it's not true. But it certainly wasn't the $2 million that you was asking for. You ain't talking about my man, his old man.

Ace of the A's old man? This is a direct question from him. Let's make some noise, please. I have never had Jay-Z take his time out. I got more. Let's describe that back then. First of all,

like you said, like you said about me, I appreciate every single word you said, by the way. I can't let another single word go without saying how genuine and how much of a man that guy is. Yeah, that's a real man right there. That's a real man right there. This next one that he said is very, very complimentary, so I'm going to hold this one for later.

So how was it meeting with him and he tried to sign young money like It was a first of all the privilege more than the privilege. I think he already knew I mean early on young money like this is pre-universal. Nah, this is this is when I was going through a whole bunch of things Oh, okay. Yeah So trying to sign you and young money. Yeah,. So you were doing the mixtapes already? Yeah. So what he was doing was he was just trying to help in any form and fashion. Wow. So, you know, if I got to sign your mom, man, whatever I got to do to help you out in your situation you're going through right now, it's like I know it's embarrassing.

Right. You know what I mean? It's like they got shit all public. They're like, what I want to do is make sure you're straight as a man. Make sure your personal thing, the rap shit, you're going to always be good with that. You're going to take your eyes closed. You got that.

You got that. I just want to make sure you're good, your family, your parents. I know you got kids. I want to make sure they're eating and all this stuff everybody hearing out here. I want to make sure it doesn't affect them. That's what I mean. He's a real, genuine guy. The numbers and all this stuff everybody here and out here want to make sure it doesn't affect them that's what I mean he's a real genuine guy so the numbers and all that that that's why he said the numbers and all that he threw out those he he hadn't he had no there was no no

limit to his numbers right when it came to what you need for real for real what you really need yeah so that right there that man yeah he also said I'm just saying while I'm on this, he said that he heard you rhyme on Show Me What You Got Home. Let me misquote, because I don't want to misquote this thing. I already know this. I'm misquoting. I don't want to. I got this shit in my hand.

I'm wrong. He said when he rapped on Show Me What You Got, I had to take a long walk and look at myself in the mirror. Oh, you still got this. And I said, are you sure you still got this? Do you know what kind of compliment that is? Wait, so I need to understand because I tried to Google it. Let's be clear who you're talking about.

This is about Jay-Z, bro. Trust me, this is from him himself. I will not throw my neck out there like that. The integrity of this show is very important. So, hold on. Let's just establish what he's saying. I know you get it, but I just want to make sure. This is from him.

He said that, okay, so now, as we're driving here, we tried to Google show me what you got. So you freestyled on his shit. So, okay, that's where we couldn't find it. Because we got to find this. So did he ever tell you this? He didn't say that part. So, okay, that's where we couldn't find it. Because we got to find this. Yeah. So did he ever tell you this? Mm-hmm.

He didn't say that part. What did he say? He just let me know, like, you know, boy, you're coming for me, boy. Oh, okay. I'm like, you know, it's just a privilege, man. I just, like, I can't get on there and play with it, man. How the fuck neither one of them never said nothing about this story? No. All these years.

Yo, that's crazy. Did I break the exclusive? Yeah, no. God damn it. Because, you know, you don't usually get ghosts to say that. Someone else scared me for a moment. And not only scared me, but telling you the exact moment. Like, he was proud to say to me, like,

yo, I had to think about it. Like, you know, show me what you got. So what did you do to this record? I just did what I do. Mm. Whoo. That is crazy. I don't know.

This nigga face, man. This nigga face, man. Oh, man. I'm so hyped right now, Wayne. I'm just telling you. You don't even understand. You don't even understand. You just told me that story, but I'm

about to walk out here acting like your pack is the one, boy. But we didn't get you on the Super Bowl. Let's stay with Jay, because we do want to get your choice on the Super Bowl, who you picking. But, so, you are at the quadruple of your career, which means, like, you had a child. Yes, I did. Boom, you had a childlike career.

Like Michael Jackson, our version of Michael Jackson. Let me claim you. Gotcha. which meaning like you had a child yes i did boom you had a childlike career like a michael jackson our version of michael jackson let me claim you gotcha boom then you had like a like a team right boom then you had like a cash money and i gotta tell you man thing at one time with the hot boys and everything i gotta tell you boy at one point everyone left cash money oh man i'm not gonna lie you know i've like, you know, between my New Orleans y'all niggas and my New Orleans niggas. I already know. And I was looking like, I thought it was over. I can't lie.

Yeah. And then it was like something called Mixtape Wheezy. Yeah. I told them I was going to hold it. I didn't know. You went from, like, MVP. You had, had like everything. And then that's another question I'm going to ask about your features.

What was it? Like, because I, at the time, Turk had left. Yeah. BG had left. Everyone was pretty much gone. It was pretty much just you and Stunner. Yeah. And Juvia left too.

Juvia left first, in my opinion. In my opinion. Juvia left first, in my opinion. In my opinion. The Juvia left first, in my opinion. I could be wrong. You're not. And now you left. You know, but you're the youngest at the time. Which played a big role in why I stayed.

Right. Yeah, played a big, big role. So how did you develop, like, I'm going to just, was it the features first or was it like you only put the label on? The back the features thing man the features thing plain and simple as it goes back to you Very very Authentically explaining about how I am the features is just plain and simple. I'm not I don't say no No, and so think it it became a thing, you know, like man send it to and also what. And also with that said, I'm going to, you know, you know who else is sending. I'm going to go with my heart is on it.

I ain't going to give you no, you know what I mean, some verse I had in the closet. I'm going to make it like it was my single. You know, with that said, that got around, that, you know, the homie, homie don't say no. He ain't got no colorblind. And he going to kill it. He in the studio all the time. Yeah, exactly. And he going to kill no. He ain't got no color blind. And he gonna kill it. He in the studio all the time. Yeah, exactly. And he gonna kill it.

He in there. Yeah, he ain't gotta worry about waiting to send it to him. He probably send it right back to us. So that got out. That was my formula. And so it ended up being, I think, I think it ended up being like 77 features or something. Damn.

I got a little fun. Me and Pun had a record at once, like the most features, and then Wayne like crushed off shit like one sub. like 77 features or something. Yeah, I got a little fun. I got a little fun. Me and Pun had a record at once, like the most features, and then Wayne was like crushed off shit like one summer. I was just like, one summer?

It's disrespectful. I was like, I'm not putting my feature, my name in the feature category anymore. You're crazy, right? Like, one summer, like you really did. But was there ever doubt

at that time because you're seeing all your peers. Like, at the end of the day, you know, Slim and Birdman are still the CEOs, although they're your peers too. They're the business guys. When you see an artist like that, was there

ever a doubt? Why would I stand there and... Let me put it on my back. This cannot work. Exactly. That was never a moment because of the confidence. I was instilled. My mom. Nobody can tell you nothing. I have a moment because of the confidence. I was instilled, my mom, my mom instilled into,

nobody can tell you nothing, you can do whatever the hell you want to do. You know what I mean? Nothing can stop you. My mom is one of those people. So I did take it upon myself to just, man, don't worry, no worries. And also, I look, again, the youngest.

So like I said, me being the youngest played a big role. So what I mean by that, I mean the effects that it had, and I was waiting for my turn. Right, and this was your turn. Yeah, I didn't want everybody to go. I would love for my turn to be while everybody was, but shit, that was how I got my turn, and this is my turn. Yeah, this is my turn.

That, also what that means is my immaturity as far as age. I didn't have any worries about the business side of it like that. I wasn't really worrying about what I'm not getting, what I'm supposed to be getting. It was just the music. It was like music, man. These guys are giving me the time to do my dream, chase my dream. I don't have to go to school. I don't have to do what my friends are doing.

You know what I mean? Then when I do go to school, I'm the top of the class. I was on TV and this, that, and that. And that was enough for you? Yeah, that was enough for me. I was 15. And whose idea was it to go the mixtape route and do all the mixtapes for that? That was me. That was just me, plain and simple. That was me. You know what that was, bro? Let me explain what that is. The mixtapes came from and he can tell you because you changed the landscape by yourself tell you when i explain how they came in new orleans he knew us in new orleans we had a way of rap we had a way of rapping and still to this day you know they got bounce music but

it wasn't bounce i'm talking about just rap right we had a way of rapping meaning we talked about a certain thing we said in a certain way we use certain slangs to also to almost where it was like a hot Cali and had a East Coast West Coast thing they had they West Coast had they thing and it's almost kind of it was forbidden for them to say son a kid or something like that yeah something like that at that so that's why at that time, he can tell you, I was a Norbert fan. I was a Jay fan. Baby ain't know who them people was. So you wanted to mix all that up.

So I wanted to get in school. When I'm with my homies and we in a circle and everybody wants somebody to want to hear a little Wayne rap, I'm coming with that check. You know what I mean? When it's baby, it was like school. When I get to the studio and babying, I'm going to hear what you got. It's about to be that head buster off top.

Grab the chop and chop. At the top is my spot, bling bling. It's about to be, whoa there, I got 20 inch rims on my, but at school, I'm about to, look son, look kid, you know what I mean? And that's what, so now I had an outlet to do it. You could do all this on this, and you could put it out.

You could just put it out on the CD and give them out and see what it do. And maybe at first when it happened, he didn't even look at it. You paid for the mixtapes, right? I've never been paid for a mixtape, and I refuse. You hear this, you fucking new artist? Wait, wait, say this again. You've never been paid for a mixtape? I've never been paid for none of my mixtapes.

I've never been paid for a mixtape? I've never been paid for none of my mixtapes. I've never... Those are full-fledged albums, as far as I'm concerned. It's me just, like I said, that's what it's always been, an outlet for me to get the music I want. You know what I mean? That was your freedom. The mixtape was your freedom. And being the Hot Boys was perfect.

Right. I looked at it as, that's cool, man. That's a test. I'm about to go past this damn test when I get to that studio. My verse is going to be the hardest. That was always about who you want to go first. That was the thing. Who everybody say, yo, you're going to start the song off first.

That always let us know that he like your verse the most. You know what I mean? So if you go back and listen to him, I start off a lot of them songs. You get it. I start off a lot of them songs. I mean, he like my verse a lot. You realize the love that the industry has for you,

or you try not to pay attention to it? Oh, I definitely realize. I want to say, when you said earlier about I influenced a generation, and I want to say the reason why I recognize them, you asked me,

did I realize that? And I say, yes. I want to elaborate on it. The only reason why I realize it is because they make me realize it. And because let me know you know you are there and we respect you and I wouldn't have I wouldn't I wouldn't have assumed it without them letting without them telling me hey you are the reason why we look or why we say or why we act or why we dress you're the gold to you that I wouldn't have assumed and to say that you know because I

heard you say that uh one time that you didn't Listen to new artists But I heard you say You didn't listen to like Like no music No music I listen to myself I listen to the last thing I just recorded

Yeah I listen to Sade And shit like that I listen to Sade too Yeah you know what I'm saying Like I don't have to But I seen you receive Slack because of that I did

So But why do you think Why do you think it was that Because they expect you To be abreast of What everything is going on? Because you're a GOAT? Because you're a GOAT, obviously.

You know what I'm saying? I think the expectation plays a big part. I think they expect, just like, not just me. I mean, I think they expect everybody, you know, they expect everybody to know. They expect Jay to know everything about everybody. Yeah, they expect everybody to know what just happened yesterday with such and such. You know, so when you, you know, it don't even have to be music. such you know so when you you know they don't even have to be music when you tell somebody i don't know something and it's something that

just happened online social media whatever they about that it's like you telling them that you just saw alien you know yeah like you just saw ufo or something like man i don't know what just happened well who just posted what you know so that's what happens and my music everybody know and also it's also i've ran into a bunch of artists that had problems with finding with me saying before that i don't know them publicly and saying that i don't know who that person was or maybe um mistaking that person for something i remember i mistake 21 savage for a damn group i remember when I was asking, when they asked me if I said they got 21 fucking new rappers in one group. And I said, I was so serious.

I was like, man, that's like a new Wu-Tang. And the person with the mic was like, you serious right now? I was like, I'm very serious. So, you know, the homie took, he took some, he took, he took, he ain't like that. You know what I mean? Because he thought I knew Who exactly who he was And I was trying to be funny

And then he was playing Right Yeah but I've Since then I've met him And a few others That was like man We understand now That you just be working

Your fucking ass So you really don't know I think it was The same type of thing Like damn you really don't know Right Yeah like Now that's real

I could Like listen Especially living out here It's like we want to Mind our own business We want to stay in our own world. Yeah, I definitely mind my own business. Like, I definitely mind my own business,

stay in my own world, so I don't know. I work too much, though, man. I got a, I'm a perfectionist, so I'm listening to what I just recorded to see if I should have said the, or I should have said duh, or I should have said is or of, things like that.

I'm picking parts, so I don't have time. The most I do listen to it, when I start the car, and my phone didn't connect to the Bluetooth yet, and the radio on. That's the most I'm going to hear right there. What the hell just happened? What is my phone doing? I like this, though.

That's how it happens. But that's interesting, a person like you have so many radio hits like you do is there a formula to like i was listening to you and babyface right you know i'm saying on the way here comfortable like yeah i'm that type of nigga you know i'm saying so i was listening to that and i'm like you know is it a formula or is it because like i ain't gonna lie i'll be scared to death to go to the studio with babyface like i ain't gonna lie i'll be like babyface we't going to just make a record. I'm going to just watch you do whatever the fuck you do. I can't. Do you go in and be like, Babyface, you got to riff here.

No. Hell no. What are you doing? I ain't going to go out and scare the Babyface. He look like he a gangster. Behind closed doors. He pull out the pistol. I'll let you know because

my mama love babyfaces. You can't be putting no pistols on my mom's. I just lay it down and also let that person know. Let me know what you don't like and what you do like, what I shouldn't have said. So you allow yourself to be produced. Very much. Any producers that you think bring out more out of you than others? Definitely.

You got a Swiss. Swiss going Chris Paul me. Everybody know Chris Paul the bulldog. When anybody take Chris Paul, I should have died for that. You should have died for that. I don't know. With Swiss, you should have died for that loose ball. Why you didn't grab that rebound?

You was right there. I'm surprised you go with Manny Fresh first. Oh, you know, Manny going to get the natural. I can't help but be natural. Now, that is a good reason because right now, I'm totally different wave right now when I do music. So still to this day, when I get a Manny Fresh beat, though, I trigger all the way back to, now you got to do it like this.

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I don't know. Thank you. I'm going to say Biggie, man. Biggie? Yeah. Nah, I did not know this story. What the fuck? How old were you at that point?

This had to be because Biggie died in 95. Oh, you mean, I thought you was just asking the question like, dude, was that someone? Oh, no, I'm talking about a lot of figures.

You had the opportunity to do it. Oh, dude, I had the opportunity and I wasn't able to work with them? Yeah, or they fronted. They just was like, nah, oh, they just

didn't get that. Or just didn't have it. Nah, I never had that situation because, you know, I'm a yes man. Let's get it. But Biggie would've been

had it been us. I could hear Biggie and Wayne he would have been Man, yeah, biggie Wayne. Oh, I don't wanna get crazy Man, that would have been insane. I'm gonna play a quick game real quick, right? I know I didn't tell the drink champs this but I just made this up. It's called grind up a game It's called grind time first time. I was so making sure we had say we got segments Never think you got segments and shit now. Let's go for a minute. I'm going to ask you quick firing questions.

Just ask. You just say which one you want. One at a time. Holy moly, guacamole, folks, you know what time it is. He knows what time it is. She knows what time it is. And I think we know what time it is. It is quicker time with Slime

America's favorite game show Let's go, holy moly, guacamole One of the other, right? Okay, you ready? It's called, you're going to start the timer. Start the timer with you. Come on. We got a real timer?

We got a timer? I don't know, let's try something new. Some new shit. It's called Quick Time with Slime. I didn't know. Let's try something new. Some new shit. Let's go big time with Slapdick. I didn't know these drinks was real. Let's do a shot of Bombay. Let's do a shot of Bombay. You know what I'm saying?

I got all the TV in the skate park, in the studio. And so y'all shit just come on. You know what I mean? There's one TV that just stays on Revolt the whole time. You know what I mean? So y'all come on. Because this is on Revolt too. Let's pick up the title too.

You know what I'm saying? Pick up the title. Title. Title. Okay, you ready? So it's'all come on. Because this is over a vote, too. Let's pick up the title, too. You know what I'm saying? Pick up the title. Title. Title. Okay, you ready? So, it's one or the other, okay? Real quick. All right, ready?

Boom. Cardi B or Nicki? Nicki. Jay-Z or Nas? Jay-Z. Tupac or Biggie? Biggie and Tupac. You said what?

Biggie and Tupac. No, I said Tupac or Biggie. No, he said both. You said Biggie and Tupac. I, I said Tupac or Big Ant. No, he said both. You said Big Ant and Tupac. I didn't think of that answer. Okay. Great. Lil' Kim or Foxy?

Lil' Kim. Kevin Hart or Chris Rock? Chris Rock. Alcohol or lean? Lean. Quality, control music or TDE? I don't know what TDE is. Kenji, come on, though.

Oh, I thought you was literally, see that's what happens. That's what happens. No trick questions man. I really thought he was asking for quality control music. So now I got to go back. So quality control music is somebody too. Yeah, that's Migos in there. Migos in there.

That's where my daddy sold. I swear to God, I didn't know that. And you say Kendrick Lamar. Oh, dude, that's the label. TD or QVC. And I'm not going to lie. I damn sure thought we was talking about Floyd Mayweather. I'll let you know where I'm at with this type of shit.

I'm into me and me only, man. TMT, right? That's TMT, right? All right, let's get it. All right, TD. Oh, man, I love both of these guys. Good question. Cash money or death row?

God damn. It depends on what the question is. It depends on what the question is. It depends on what the question is. It depends on what the question is. Cash money or payroll? Now I'm joking, man. You know. I switched it all the way.

Cash money or payroll? What do you want to know? Both. Cash money. First, cash money. This is the ultimate one. They're going to know. Eminem or MGK?

MGK. I got to say Eminem because I don't know too much. MGK is the only reason, though. Okay. Eminem or G-Eazy? Again, don't know too much. Come on, man. What kind of question is that?

I'm trying, man. I'm trying. We're trying to work with each other. That's not even a fair question. Let's make some noise for Gravy the first time. Also, quick time with Slime. You know,

also I did a bunch of joints with Em, man, that's my man. You know, that's very interesting. Em had used that Jay-Z moment. That Jay lied about that. He talked about he had to go talk to himself and all that,

look at himself in the mirror. But that moment, Em had me like that. You're probably the only person that did a record with Em that they said that Em didn't body. How do you feel about that? Because everyone that Em get on the record with, they say he body. I have never heard him say that about you. I can humbly say I expected that because when you get on a joint, that's like a championship game.

And you win it and they ask you, you know, they ask you, you know, how do you feel? Did you feel you was going, yeah, I came in with my game plan. I expected my game plan to work. Yeah, so M is, you know, when you send a song to M, I try to attack it like that. Like, nah, you're not. You're just not. You're not going to do me this. You know, you're not going to do me this.

And so I'm going to put it all out there. Either we're going to be right here with it and just make a beautiful, wonderful, great song, but you ain't going to do me that. And so that's what we did. We just made a wonderful, great song. I ain't hear nobody ever say nobody body each other, nothing like that. I just made sure that he didn't body me.

Yeah, that boy is a monster. Are you into that? Do you listen to records and you say, is this verse better? Are you still into that? Even though Drake is your artist right now, he sends you a record Are you still into that? Even though Drake is your artist right now, he sends you a record, you still taking his head off? Yeah.

As he should. All day. I'm letting him know that when he's sending it. Make sure your mom and them don't be listening to this. I had seen one of the greatest pieces of art. I wanted to do the fullest

investigation of you because of course I know pieces of art. I wanted to do the fullest investigation of you because, of course, I know you. I know you personally, but I wanted to take my personal out of this because you're in my top five personally, but I got to be... I appreciate that, bro. I have to be a journalist.

So I went... I never knew how great the tall Drake versus Wayne is. I didn't know. Like, it went above my head because, again, I live in my own world. Exactly. You know what I'm saying? So I went back and I seen y'all battle for

features and then battle for hooks. Do you know how amazing that is? Niggas don't even got their main records to ring off like that. They had a whole segment of features and hooks. Holy moly.

Do y'all get what I'm saying? A half an hour Of features and hooks! Holy moly! Y'all get what I'm saying? A half an hour! Yeah, half an hour. Of hooks! These niggas are just, um, I'm on the wall, and then he and Drake start singing some shit, and these niggas are about to blame, blame, and then, oh my God!

I come right back. Holy shit! I was sitting in the car. I was a duffel bag boy. That's the one you used to always win with, though. Once I was a duffel bag boy, you done, you. Holy shit. I was sitting, you know. I just don't know what I used to always win with, though. You know, once I was a bad boy, you done,

I got you. But that was like a phenomenal piece of art to see y'all. And then y'all like comedians on stage together. They're like the Blues Brothers. Like, hey, Bob.

And he called him Drake on the pole. I said, holy moly. It was great. And like, you know, Drake out of there was all like fun. Like, yo, that is crazy.

You ever seen that? You ever watched the footage? Oh, okay. All right. I was about to say, if you don't watch, you know, Drake got it. It was all, like, fun. But, yo, that is crazy. You ever seen that? You ever watched the footage? Oh, okay. All right. Cool. I was about to say, if you don't watch the footage. I've seen it. I've seen it watching, like, a show or something.

And they have the whole damn show on there. The tour or something like that. Yeah, I've never seen it on my own. Like, and went back and said, I'm about to watch this. But I've been flicking and saying, oh, got the whole shit I think it was like a documentary of myself yeah you gotta go watch that ass and this footage of you in the beginning in the projects it's just so beautiful like to see your transition from the beginning like because obviously I knew you like you know 1999 or maybe it might

have been 1998 we recorded a record. I don't know if you remember. I want to say, I was the first New York nigga to record Little Women. I just went there and I remember Flint. I had a record.

I had a record. You're the first New York dude with most of the cash money on records. Yes, this is exactly what happened. That's how Baby is. That's how Baby is. Everybody got to come and do it. That's how Baby is.

Let me just say something. We had a record with Jewelry, and I wanted to do cash money, Dogged Out. And at the time, I didn't know who he was. I didn't know him he was I didn't know and he said listen watch this kid he said

not just him just watch him this kid is gonna you know what I mean then he put on Turk and it was like we was going together and let me just tell you

something bro from right there to where you are now brother I have never seen a better transition in hip-hop. Thank you, man. And I synced it. Yeah.

You know how they say it? I synced it. Yeah, I synced it. I synced it. Yeah. Like, nigga, I am proud of you. You continue to go and break barriers. And I want to tell you,

putting it to your face, how thankful we are and how much hip-hop owes you. Let's make some noise for that. Yeah. But, but, then you transition,

you transition to this CEO. And one thing I noticed that after I seen you do it, I see people like Busta Rhymes do, and I see people like, even Drake doing it now, and people like Rick Ross. Like, you really put your artist

sometimes in front of you. That's how it goes. You know what I'm saying? I feel like you was the first one to... Artist CEO was the first person to... You put Nicki and Drake in front of you. With Young Money.

Yeah, with Young Money. How did you develop that? I felt like you wasn't even afraid for them to be just as big as you. Plain and simple. That's exactly what it was. it was no fear fearless and also to instill it in them that's where it plays the most that's where it's the most vital you know to where you can you you subtract all that away from yourself in front you know for them and let them know hey this is how much confidence I have in you guys to where I don't even need none of my credentials none of my accolades.

I don't need me. Y'all just need y'all. You know what I mean? And that instills so much confidence in them, and they are who they are today because of it. Not to mention just them. You got Tiger. You got people like, you know what I mean? Those are people that I sat in the room and had to make sure and let them know to their face that you're a motherfucker.

You know what I mean? You're a motherfucker, and once you come out, they're going to understand you are who you are face that you're a motherfucker. You're a motherfucker and once you come out they're going to understand you are who you are and you're going from there. I will watch you fly. But what he's saying is that's not normal in an artist CEO. Because of egos

and stuff. That's not usual. That's not the usual way that that goes. That's real. I would have to say that was you know that was uh probably taught i learned a lot of that from baby and you know i mean when you look at her you know we from the streets so you're looking at that same person with the accolades of his street i know you know who we know who baby was he's a millionaire from the streets and in new orleans you know that name way before i was way before there was rap before there was a cash money records that name hell, you know, that name way before I was a, way before there was rap, before there was a Cash Money Records,

that name held weight. You know, my mama went to school with him. My mama was so scared for me to even be involved with him. Wow.

You know what I mean? All she would say was like, boy, that boy was 14 with a million dollars. Like, ain't nobody,

I don't know how you got it, but I'm 14, I don't know. She was scared of him. To me, you know, you're a kid, you're a boy,

once you, you're like, yeah, you go in your room, you're like, oh, shit, I didn't care about this. So to me, you know what I mean? To me, he had all that, and he would strip himself of all that. Right. And, you know, you niggas is the niggas when, you know, to me it's like when you're asking him,

so you're looking at him like, you know, but you know we ain't do none of this shit you did. Right. You know what I mean? Like, we ain't got half of it. We ain't do none of this shit. We ain't push slang, we ain't do none of this shit you did. You know what I mean? Like, we ain't got half of it. We ain't do none of this shit. We ain't push sling. We ain't do none of this shit you did.

And for him to strip himself, no, I believe in y'all. Y'all going to remember to where you believe in yourself. Like, man, we goons for real. You know what I mean? We goons for real. Because we got a real goon right here letting us know, y'all on the front line and I'm right here with you. You know what I mean?

So I think that played a big part, especially Slim. Slim was always the one who would say, you know, y'all on the front line, I'm right here with you. You know what I mean? So I think that played a big part, especially Slim. Slim was always the one who would say, you know, like, you the one. You know, he would always tell me, you the one. And that's how my career even started. Me getting sick on tour. That's how my career started. Wait, what do you mean?

Like, getting sick on tour? Yeah, I got sick on tour, on the Hot Boys tour. We would come out in a helicopter every night. That was the baddest Boys tour. We would come out in a helicopter every night. That was the baddest shit ever. It was coming out in a helicopter and making it rain before there was anything called making it rain. We were making it rain over the crowd in the helicopter. That's how we got to stage every night.

And I got sick for a few nights. And so when I was feeling better, I was ready to go back on stage. And Slim was like, nah, nah, nah, you ain't going. I'm like, what you mean? I'm good. I'm straight. I was ready to go back on stage and Slim was like nah nah nah you ain't going I'm like what you mean I'm good I'm straight he was like yeah you good just chill out for tonight and I was like I'm better I told you I'm and you a kid so you like

naturally you want to go in the way you get into the helicopter was in every show was in a big ass arena every night so a team plays in that arena. The helicopter would be in the middle of the show, of the crowd though. But it would be covered up. And so the way we would get to it was in the

laundry, the laundry bucket. Because the team laundry bucket is bigger than this table. So it was all four of us. We were getting that motherfucker and they pushed us to that through the crowd. The crowd don't know what it is. They just think it's some of the people pushing some shit. So every night, when I was ready to get in that motherfucker, Slim held me back.

Like, not tonight, bro. I was like, but I'm everybody know I'm feeling better. I thought this whole day we knew I'm performing. When my song came on, this was so long ago. This was when you do a show. Your show is linked up, synced up into the damn drive. Ain't no such thing as cutting a song out. Ain't no such thing as cutting a song out.

Ain't no such thing as cutting a song out. It's in the set already. It's a gap. It's a gap back there, right? Exactly. Ain't no such thing as mutes. Y'all niggas don't know about that yet. Talk that shit, Wayne. Talk that shit.

And so what that mean, every night they still had to do my song without me. So they had to do my song every night that I wasn't there. How many nights you think they did that? I missed four nights. And so Slim noticed, they say, man, you know every night they go out there and they say, sorry, Lil Wayne couldn't be with us, he a little sick tonight.

He say, you know, my song was the fourth song of the show. He say, you know, that make the song go all the way, he say, that make the show go all the way down to where within four shows, they had to figure out a way to stop saying, Wayne couldn't be with us tonight. They just start playing the song, and let the crowd just figure out why the hell he ain't out there.

Just let him deal with it and vibe it. And so, that night, he did it, Baby go out and say, sorry y'all, Lil Wayne couldn't make it, I'm sitting there about to cry. Well you did. Yeah, I'm looking at Slim like, bro, I am right here. I'm not coughing no more, my stomach. He said, take your shirt off.

He said, take your shirt off, hurry up, take your shirt off. Like, what? He took my shirt off, pushed me. Was he coming out to fire, man? I feel like he fired me. The block is hot. The block is hot. I was close, I was close to hot.

And so when the song came, Baby did the whole, sorry Lil Wayne couldn't make it tonight, y'all. The whole crowd did the whole, ah. And then he said, but we still gonna do the song came, Baby did the whole, Sorry Lil Wayne couldn't make it tonight, y'all. The whole crowd did the whole, ah. And then he said, but we still going to do the song for him like we do every night. Then when the song came on, Slim pushed me out there with no shirt on. I ran out there. It was like Michael Jackson walking on stage. Goddamn, I told you.

Goddamn, my mom was making a noise. Goddamn. That was my career. I'm up for the Raiders. Raiders, that was crazy. Yeah, that was my career. I'm bouncing around a little bit. See, you know, we're going to go all over the place. Did we even get your Super Bowl prediction? Mm-mm.

We did not get your Super Bowl prediction. I think the Packers going to do it. The Packers ain't in there. Oh, fuck. I'm sorry, man. Because I'm an Aaron Rodgers fan. Did I establish that? You know, I don't agree with a lot of things with Stephen A.

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Fantasy League? No, I have an agency. Oh, shit. Yeah, I have Young Money Agency. That's in my name. Way above a fantasy league. Yeah. Big applause for real.

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You would win. You could make that. I actually might make his ring look better. Why? Than a team. That's what I might actually do. Because you do love him. But this is something I agree with you on, might actually do. Exactly. Because you do a lot of drinking. But this is,

now this is something I agree with you on, right? Sports. Okay. Lakers. I'm going to be honest. I'm a Laker bandwagon fan. Oh.

Meaning, I was down with Magic Johnson. Okay. James Worthy. Okay. But then they had a cold streak. Then they got Kobe. I came back.

I'm with you. Then they had a cold streak. Mm-hmm. Then they got Kobe. I came back. I'm with you. Then they had a Cold Street. Then they got LeBron. I am also back. Okay, gotcha. Am I accepted in the Lakers nation? Or they might kick me out? Man, that's the first of all is L.A.

So you're already, no, you can join tomorrow. I can join tomorrow. You're a diehard. Okay. You're already inhard. Okay. You're a diehard. That's it. That rocks. Yeah, so, but, oh, are you the Lakers fan? I'm a Lakers fan forever, man.

Okay. You was fucking with them when they last joined? Yeah, I had to. I had to. Yeah, I had to ride it on out. I had to ride it on out. Because I'm a New York fan. I got the Knicks and shit.

I can't keep two losing teams. I was that one. I was a fan when AI stepped over T-Glue. You know how much that hurt? Yeah, just step over my dog like that. You want to know the funniest thing about it, though? Okay. All my homies, including some of these niggas with me tonight,

all my homies, they was all Allen. You know, the whole hood Allen Allinson fans. I'm the only Laker fan in the crib. So, you know, when he hit that shot and stepped over my slam like that, you know, niggas in the house talking about Ain't that Lou, oh, am I telling the coach now? Niggas like, that nigga, oh, I told you

that nigga. I whooped that nigga's ass, I catch that nigga. Mind you, all-star game that year in New Orleans. We walking up Canal Street, you know, it was all-star. that year in New Orleans. We walking up Canal Street. You know, it's all-star. Everybody chilling. Who we running to?

T-Lil. Oh, man. I got the little homie in. I got all the niggas telling me they'll beat a nigga up. When they see him, they'll catch him. When they see him. This on my daddy's show. That man ain't have on no.

He walking tank. White beat on him, first of all. This one, he had the braids to the back. Braids to the back, white beat on. I told him this. He remember he bust out laughing, so he know the story. Man, walking up. That man ain't having no ice-style basketball.

He ain't having no ice-style basketball goal. He ain't having no ice-style NBA. He ain't having no ice-style number. You know, niggas get they numbers ice-style. Man had on ice-style boxing gloves. Ice-style boxing gloves. I said, done threw them. Iced out boxing gloves. I said, hey what you guys say when you see Tudor? What you say he was going to do?

What you say he was going to do? Get that girl to the homie right there. Homie I said niggas don't spend money on shit that they don't know how to do. You know what I mean? I got a few iced out skateboards. You know what I mean? I know what I'm doing. You know what I mean?

A nigga got iced out. I said that man a professional NBA basketball player. We got iced out skateboards. You know what I mean? I know what I'm doing. You know what I mean? A nigga got iced out. I said, that man a professional NBA basketball player. We got iced out boxing gloves. Oh, that mean that man going to throw hands. Go ahead. What you say?

You going to do it to the home? You feel? That's the funnest shit ever, man. Every time I tell him, he's like, yeah, I still got some pizza at page.

So Green Bay, being a Green Bay fan, I'm an Aaron Rodgers fan. I can see that, right? Being a Laker fan, I can already tell you I relate. Here's where I'm a little thrown off. Okay. You're a Boston Red Sox fan?

Mm-hmm. I don't get where this is coming from, unless you like Dominican people a lot. That's the only how I can see, like, where is this, where did you get this from? I'm confused on this part. This is like fucking city. Shout out Big Papi. That's my man. That's my man.

But listen, I can see the Lakers. I can see the Green Bay. I just, I've been trying. It's been befooling. I've been befuddled. I got you. This this whole day I'm trying to figure out a connection I got you I got you wrote to the Pedro Martinez hey do what I say alright I respect that I know it's Dominican hey my favorite favorite picture man so I've been down. He was my favorite pitcher, man. So I've been rocking since ever since.

So that's the type of nigga you is once a... Once I'm in, I'm in. Love it. Yeah. Even if your player gets hurt, you still rock with the team? I'm rocking with the team. Yeah. You just going to stick with it.

I feel like that with the next play. It's not working out for me, Wayne. Yeah, I know. The Nets, how we looking this year? Yeah, all right. We'll be looking how we looking this year? All right. We'll be looking good next year. You heard that?

Nah, when KD get back. He don't get, he don't get back. DreamShot Sports, uh, next year. DreamShot Sports ain't

saying that. Look, we already talked about next year, Wayne. This is the type of life we live in. We didn't even think about this year.

It's January. It's January. We can talk about next year, my nigga. I just took my Christmas tree down, my nigga. We talking about next year, my nigga. It's horrible. So I get it. Because I would think you're a Saints fan.

I would think you are. I don't think you're like the New Orleans. You ain't a New Orleans team fan at all? I like my, you know, I root. You're yeah, go, go, you know, but I'm a real sports fan with that said. You got his team. I rock on my squad. And everybody, you know, everybody around my age, that's from New Orleans, I tell them every day, stop it. Stop it. That's from New Orleans. I tell them every day, stop it. Stop it.

Because growing up in New Orleans around my age and around everybody, no one was a Saints fan. No one was a... No one. Was they...

Who was that? Who that? Who that? Yeah. Whoever it was, it wasn't none of them. It wasn't none of them. And now since,

you know, they, you know, they bandwagon. You know, they winning. And all of a sudden, I'm talking about niggas. Saints, that, that. My nigga, you was a fucking Cowboys fan.

You was a 49ers or a Cowboys fan. You was one of them two in New Orleans. And I mean, you everything but a Falcons fan. You know what I mean? And all of a sudden, you got a million thousand Saints fans. So I stick with my pack, man. Go Pack Go. So what do you think?

Let's do a shout-out. Let's do a shout-out. Let's do a shout-out. Let's do a shout-out Wayne shit. Let's do a shout-out Wayne shit. We're going to do a shout-out of anything, goddammit. So what do you think the Lakers are going to do this year? I definitely think, you know, obviously we're going to be out there.

We're going to be up there. We're going to be there for the tournament. Because last year we didn't make the playoffs. Yeah, I know. Oh, that's bad. We're going to be in the playoffs. I wasn't really claiming us like that last year. We gonna be in the playoffs.

Then we got Anthony Davis. I was bam-banging again. And we gone. We gone. We gonna have to meet up with them folks, though. What'd you say? We gonna have to meet up with them folks, though. Okay.

We gonna have to meet up with them Clippers. They more of a threat than Houston? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. They got that dog over there, man. I thought my man with the beard was going crazy. Yeah, you talking about James?

James Harden, my man. He got braids in his car. He got the braids and shit, yeah. He mean business. He dropping triple triples. That's how he rock him. And you know Russ is a fucking bulldog. You already know Russ.

If not one of my top three players, if not other than LeBron, I think Russ is my second best player in the league. Other than LeBron, Russ? Yeah, next to LeBron. Russ is a dog, bro. Yeah. You talk mellow when we do this good? Oh, man.

Mellow, man. Mellow is beautiful right now. That shit is awesome, man. It is, man. That shit is awesome. And I had no expectations because I know Melo. He's black in Puerto Rico and I had to root for him. I'm black in Puerto Rico.

Automatically, I got to root for him. But I believed, I believed, but I still had to root extra. I felt like he never did nothing wrong. He might not never have another black Puerto Rico. I never saw a bad Melo yet for me to say when he come back, he ain't going to be right. You know what I mean? So I didn't see that. So that's why I was like, I just was looking. I had no expectations. I just want to see what he's going to do when he come back he ain't gonna be right you know what i mean so i didn't see that so that's why i was like i just was looking i just want i had no expectation i just want to see what

he gonna do when he get back yeah appreciate it come on man this is your shit right yeah salu god damn it what is this what is this this is bamboo this is bamboo uh what i know a been drinking this too on the show. This is bamboo. Bamboo? This is bamboo. What I know a lot of, what I know the most about it is about the vanilla bean extract. God damn, sounds rich.

Yeah, it's awesome. Here we go, vanilla bean extract. It goes, mmm, whoo. Wow.

You can taste the vanilla too. So, now, Nicki Minaj, we spoke about briefly you discovering Drake. I don't think we got into depth, but we'll get into that. But Nicki Minaj, at the time, there's Lil' Kim, there's Foxy Brown, there's Trina, there's so many other female artists. This is artists. You being from New Orleans and then moving to Miami,

this is like a leap. You know, I remember her being signed to, I believe, Dirty Money or something like that. Okay. Maybe she wasn't signed, but affiliated with. And then I just remember just, boom,

being with Young Money. Like, was that a risk for you, signing a New York artist? Because I don't know if that time were you used to working with, like... It wasn that a risk for you, signing a New York artist? Because I don't know if at that time were you used to working with... It wasn't a risk at all. Oh, okay. Yeah, again, that goes back to the confidence I have

in the person, in the individual. So it was never a risk at all. Plus, also, her being from New York, you know, they... Oh, the female rappers from New York, regardless of the names we name, just period female rappers from New York, they're a different breed when it comes to rap. And she was that sense, she cut from that same cloth. And what I mean by that is they got clips.

You know what I mean? Female, a lot of, I work with a bunch of female artists and a lot of female artists work, like females should work, you know, and very particular about what they do, very specific about what they say, very particular about how they work. And, you know, when Nicki started, she was in the trenches like anybody, but that's a New York female artist, and that's why I say that's how that card is out there. If you cut from that card, that's how it is.

They ready to go. They got clips, and what's the subject? Because it ain't about to be, she ain't about to come in here talking about, you know, like, I'm about to fuck this guy, I'm about to do this, I want my hair this way ain't about to come in here talking about you know like i'm about to fuck this guy i'm about to do this i want my hair this way she about to come in and motherfucker talking about yappas and talking about yeah and that right that was always the confidence i had and i always told you know you're gonna probably have to you know start talking about more general things that people probably would like to see when they see you people gonna

want to hear certain things from you other than what you're dishing out but don't stop dishing it out because it's you so once they accept you you ain't got no problem with I've always been who I am anyway and y'all accepted me then I have no problem with longevity

because I'm going to be me forever but your thing is a little different what I mean by that is like you know Dre had a Snoop right and then you know like Jay has a Kanye but you had like both at the same time and they were like drake and nick drake and nicky at the same time like did that ever fuck you up like like am i that crazy because like both of your shits work like you know usually it's one

or the other but it was you had a lot of artists too did you did you see it like it was just them too like did you have a criteria when you were looking at these artists? That you were picking out artists? That I'm looking for something that I'm proud of. The only thing I actually ever look for is hunger. Mm-mm. Yeah, hunger. Just the need for, the want for need or the need for want.

Just have it, you know, just hunger. Just no matter what we're doing and when we're doing it, let's do it. Right. You know what I mean? That person always works no matter what. As long as the drive is there. Yeah, as long as the drive is there. Yeah, as long as the drive is there, that person. As far as skill and all that, skill can always be crafted and sharpened and worked on.

If you got the hunger in you, then that is definitely going to happen. They had both of that. They had all of that, not just those two. Everybody, the other artists on the label as well. Even obviously the artists that are still on the label, that's what I see in them in them to this day you got the hunger you're always ready and you're always looking for so they can always be rewarded and rather the world rewards them or not and rather you know rather the record the record game rewards them or not me as a person i'm gonna always reward them that's beautiful man make some noise let's give him a shot

let's do another motherfucking shot on that. I felt that right there. I felt it. Come on, guys. Come on. I felt that. This ain't no joke. We drink this.

We drink this. We drink this shit. We drink this. This ain't no joke. I ain't know if y'all fucking worship. I know y'all drink. No, we drink this. We drink it.

In our holiday special, we don't remember much, but we remember drinking this. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we had it in the holiday special. It was heavy. We went hard. We went hard. We don't remember much, but we remember drinking this. Oh yeah, we had a holiday special. We were heavy. We were hard. We were hard. So Wayne, like boom.

You're one of the guys that like they say blood, like you know, blood like it kind of like a lot of people who say that their blood now is because they've seen Wayne be blood. I'm just being honest, artists and things like that. Because a lot of people say that Wayne was an artist first and then started putting up the... How do you even approach something like that? I haven't heard that one before, but when I'm ever asked how it came about, the answer is always the same. The answer is we've never in New Orleans. We didn't have Bloods and Crips.

We did. It was in a part of New Orleans, and they still do. They go hard. They're totally different. We always called them, and this was in the 90s, and they've been like this. And so we always called that area of New Orleans the West Bank. And funny that it's actually the West Bank. And we always called them, look, that's the West Side.

That's the California niggas. Lead them along. And right now, to this day, their blood and crimping is like Cali blood and crimping. They ain't on the blood, you know, the B squad, the slime. They ain't on. They really still on their red and blue out there in that part of New Orleans. We always had that.

And so where I'm from, we, the bandit that represented where we were from was the soldier rag. Right. Everybody,

you know, that represented the Magnolia soldiers, but everybody ain't from Magnolia. Right. You know what I mean? So you got,

but that area, that juvenile, you know, New Orleans is split up into wards. Right. You represent it to where you got

third ward, fourth ward. Texas is like that too as well. Exactly. Yeah, they got the big Fifth Ward out there.

So what Juvenile from Magnolia, that's the Third Ward. That ward is big. It got more than just the Magnolia project. It had the Melfamine project, the Calio project,

and a bunch of regular just neighborhoods. Just, I mean, so. Oh, I said the Magnolia and Calio is in the same. Same ward. Same ward.

It's like counties. Yeah, exactly. So all of that though is represented by you know, obviously everywhere has a Uptown. Uptown.

So some wards are downtown some wards so when you want to represent where you're from and not just you want to represent

not just 17th and specifically you want to represent from Uptown the red rag was always for Uptown. And so I stuck with the red bandana because I couldn't do the soldier rag because I started. And what happened was I went back to the hood,

and they was like, I wish you would come right back around here with that dumbass shit. You ain't from the St. Thomas. No, you nigga, it's Hottie Grove. You know what I mean? I was told that. You know what I mean? Like, you ain't from the third ward.

You can stop acting like you're from the fucking project. You ain't from the project. You know what I mean? So I you ain't from the third world. I didn't stop acting like you're from a fucking project. You ain't from the project. Right. You know what I mean? So I had to leave that alone and get back to what it is. Because it was like you and Dipset. Like, you and Dipset. And, like, even you and Jewel's at one point.

Like, y'all developed this great relationship. And people started to see y'all wearing red. That's still my bro. Yeah. God bless Jewel. Jewel's my bro, too. So, you never heard this before? That they felt like you influenced, like, a whole bunch of, like, you know what I mean? I mean, I don't think. I don't. I think. I thought, that they felt like you influenced a whole bunch of, you know

what I mean? I mean, I don't think... I thought, truthfully, if you ask me, I thought niggas was just had their own, I thought them niggas really had their own, they got their own gangs, and they city, and wherever they from, because you know what we hearing, them niggas go to shooting at each other, and they're shooting that shit real.

You know what I mean? Whatever, it don't matter what color you got on, that shit serious. Once they go to shoot and they each other, no, that shit's side. I had no opinions on how'd you become a blood or whatever, because once you go to put in them triggers, that nigga, you're blood, my nigga, whatever you say. You are that, my nigga.

Shit. Wait, let me just let you know, man. Our show was about saluting people, man. So many people want to say how great you are or something happened to you that that's and that to me i i i understand that but i want to do it while people are alive i want to do people while you know so many people when you get 10 years in this game they want to say yo he's over he's old he's washed up not in this show man this show we want to celebrate our people man like for real like you know i'm saying like the last

time uh you see my son my son is over there. He was 10 years old. You did my idea. He was a kid. He was a kid. And he did my video and I remember like just you making me cooler to my kids. My kids like, you know Wayne? I'm like, that's my man. And they're like, yeah, right.

And I'm just trying to tell you, man, our generation needs to start doing this more where we can bring each other. Because it makes me no less of a man to let you know, tell you how great you are. You know what I'm saying? And when we rolled on the thing here, I first of all studied you for two days. I told Mac Mane this. It's like, I just studied everything about you.

Shout out Mac Mane, by the way. Yeah, shout out Mac Mane. Shout out Mac. Thank you. So it was crazy because I thought I knew everyone. Shout out Mack. Shout out Mack. Yeah. Yeah. So a couple real minutes. So, uh, so it was crazy because I thought I knew every one of your songs. Mack was one of the niggas that told me to stop wearing that soldier rag too. Oh yeah?

I thought I knew every one of your songs, but then I put on, my son even knew. But now I gotta get into how to, how you love, cause that's one of my shits. How you love. Come on, you're on my name. What was going on? I feel like that was some good pussy. I'm just going to be honest. I feel like somebody put it on you. But he didn't know how to love.

Nah, man, it was... Sal, let's take a shot first before you answer that. Salute, salute, how to love. Salute know how to love. Nah, man. Sal, let's take a shot first before you answer that. Salute. Salute. How to love. Salute. How to love. How to love.

Cheers. It came about, it was at the moment, at the time where I finally started accepting ideas, other people's ideas. I was stuck in my ways. Everything I do work, I don't's like, you know everything I do work on each other I mean, but started accepting ideas and obviously I was not gonna accept no idea still have a hard time accepting any idea for rap Right, you might tell me what my support rap need to sound like now You could give me some R&B shit that maybe I could find over those are the one of the joints

I'm not for my own words to some some and some parts. When I first got it, I thought that, you know, man, this might be a little too positive for me. You know what I mean? Oh, positive?

Yeah. Too positive? That's what I said. I put a lot of my own words in it. Okay. Oh, okay, okay. Yeah. And so that's when

once I did that and heard, see what the outcome was, like, you know, this works. And that's how that came about. And shout out that song, man.

I meet people that you can clearly see, you know this works and that's how that came about and shout out that song man i meet people that um you can clearly see you know i don't judge but you can clearly see that person is not a lil wayne fan it's not about them being a fan what i mean by that is they don't they're not going to their playlist and checking out some lil wayne but you know when they have real genuine stories about what that song did for them. You know, and playing it's something that sometimes tells me that, you know, I've been a fan ever since that song. You know, and when they tell me that That was like in Tupac almost,

Brenda got a baby, but not like, you know what I mean? You know what I mean? Like in another, like, because like everyone just was like Yeah, yeah, that's real shit. That's why I said the people that come up to me and tell me what that song is not is people that's obviously you can look at them and see that you ain't checking me out but they tell them tell me what that what they was going through at some point of their lives and what that song did for them and that song helped them look in the mirror

and things like that and help them be able to see the person that was there and stop listening to this and stop hearing this and stop worrying or caring about kids that was now i've had kids that were being bullied tell me about that song i've had people that were overweight and tell me about what that song did for them and how how great they feel about themselves now and things like that yeah so that's a good song hold on let me tell you something this ill um i don't know if you remember that you put a group that i managed may, in two of your videos. The group Mayday, the band. The band, yeah, punk yeah.

And it was ill because you had them in your video shoot, and then we brought a t-shirt for you, and you threw the t-shirt. At first, you were like, it's a little too big. You're like, fuck it. You put it on, killed it, and then you invited them to perform at a Super Bowl party. Super Bowl party. Which was crazy for us, and we went and we did it. And then we met with Baby too, and it didn't work out. But whatever.

But it was L though. How much love you showed these guys, and then you put on the shirt and all that, and then Mac May ended up doing a track with them. And I just wanted to thank you just on the record, on the show. You really were genuine. You showed love to. And I just wanted to thank you just on the record. You were genuine. You really were genuine. You showed love to the guys. You wanted to learn.

You played guitar with them, with the guys, and you showed love to them, so thank you for that. That's all love. And they signed to Tech N9ne after that. Did they? Yeah. I swear to God, I'm about to say, how they doing? Yeah, they signed to Tech N9ne and they've been touring ever since.

That's the homie, homie. Yeah, no, we know. We know. Shortly after that, we signed to Tech N9ne. Yeah, the guy signed to Tech N9ne. I saw him on his show. I saw him on his show. I saw him on his show. I saw him on his show. I swear to God, I'm about to say, how they doing? Yeah, they signed to Tech N9ne. You know, that's the homie, homie. Yeah, no, we know, we know. Shortly after that, we signed to Tech N9ne. Yeah, the guy signed to Tech N9ne.

I saw him on his show. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, because we're going to get into this new album that we got dropping. But before we get to that, I got to win this bet real quick. On a million, which is one of my favorite videos, by the way. Thank you. That's one of the best hip-hop videos ever.

You've obviously seen the Zip It video first, right one of the best hip-hop videos ever. Thank you. You've obviously seen the Xzibit video first, right? What you see is what you get now. I know that video, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Those two videos together. That video's crazy. Those are the two craziest rap videos to me.

Gotcha. But in the record, you say, I'm a millionaire, I'm a young money millionaire, tough as the Nigerian hair. Nigerian hair. Okay. I won. Make some noise for me, man. He keep telling me, Nigerian, yeah. I said, no. I think it's the Nigerian hair. I said, Nigerian, yeah.

I'm like, oh, no, no, no. I won this battle. Shout out Nigeria. Shout out Nigeria. I did my 23andMe. It's kind of like Ancestry.com. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I did 23andMe, too. My shit came back like 53% Nigerian.

Oh, shit. Yeah, me and my mom need to have a talk. Okay. Holy shit, Nigerian. That's awesome. Have you been to Nigeria yet? No. They got a huge apartment scene.

It's already done. I got to be there. I got to go see. You know, that's what you Have you been to Nigeria yet? No. You need to go out. They got a huge hip hop scene. It's already done. I got to be there. I got to go see. You know, that's what you check and do the thing for. Yeah. Is Lil Wayne

won't go to Dubai because you can't smoke? I've been to Dubai a few times. Damn. This is not a good room with him. Obviously,

you found a way to smoke there. Are you bringing bar to Dubai or no? No, we just, I think every time we go they make sure

it's a short stay. Like, you go there, do the show, you pop right back out that bitch. But that's the reason why I got my G-Wagon, because I saw that bitch in Dubai. I never seen it in America. I was like, what is that? God damn it. I need it.

I need it now. I thought it was a Hummer. That bitch was that big. I was like, that Hummer is dirt. I need that. He was like, that's a Benz. I was like, damn, you just upped the price like 300,000. I know that.

It's a fuckhead. I still want it. Did y'all really have Hummers sitting on 32s back in the days? Fuck yeah. I really did. I'm trying to figure out what 32s looked like. He meant the tires. Oh, the tires.

I'm like, niggas, the brims. They were big, too. Look at some of the dump riders out here, man. I'm not sureiggas the brims them niggas were big too I'm not sure I'm about to say I'm not sure cause them niggas was big too that nigga he was a rim fanatic

Stunner was a rim fanatic I didn't put no rims on my shit he would put them on there yeah he would steal your car and do that

that's real talk he would steal your car and do that and put rims on it put everything in your shit. Speakers, rims, TVs, all that. That's a good thief.

Nah, you pull up, you pull up, what the fuck is this? Thank you for checking my shit. Is this how you're riding? Is this how you're really riding right now? Like, yeah. Like, man, give Charlie the keys to the expedition. You got to ride the expedition for a good week and a half.

He come call you and tell you come get your car. Your shit got all kind of different shit. You didn't press the button. Your shit didn't turn into a whole nother damn car. Did you ever just leave it like, I hope he jacked that shit today? Nah, because he going to jack it and take care of it. After that, you don't want to jack that motherfucker no more. Now, was Currency the first artist signed to Young Money?

Oh, he was the first artist signed. No, he was on Cash Money. He was on Cash Money already. Young Money? artist signed to Young Money? Oh, he was the first artist signed. Was he? No, he was on Cash Money. He was on Cash Money already. Young Money? No, he signed to Young Money. First to Young Money? Yeah. Yeah.

I could have sworn I had Cash Money vinyl. No, no. I'm saying that he was first signed to Young Money. I'm saying Young Money, Cash Money. Oh, okay. It was a joint venture. Right, right, right, right. With Cash at first sign.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Now, what, right, right. With a cash at first thing. Now, what about the Saudi Arabia experience, though? Huh? The Saudi Arabia experience. What happened in Saudi Arabia? It was awesome. Okay. Yeah, it was awesome.

They're very different. The people out there are very different. Their culture is very different out there. You learn a lot. Right. If you're interested like I am, I'm very... Mecca's there. Yeah, I'm very intrigued'm very uh intrigued i get intrigued by different things you know so there's a bunch of different stuff out there every second

was different it's awesome though ended up overall once i was able to sit down and think about the whole situation it was awesome so you performed out there i performed out there i drew 55 000 people and you could curse or you couldn't curse? Yeah. They told me, you know, obviously try. Actually, the only thing I was told, you know, try to keep it down. Try to keep the cursing down. It wasn't a problem.

But try to keep the, you know, I usually say something about. Sexually explicit. Nah. I usually say something before and after my show about thank God and stuff like that. You know, just they didn't make demand that I did. You know, don after my show about thank God and stuff like this. They didn't make demand that I did. Don't say nothing about your religion. They think it's blasphemous to say something. They didn't demand it at all.

They didn't demand that you don't say nothing about your religion. It's just a considerate. If you don't mind, you may not want to bring religion into it tonight. That was all. Other than that, it was a regular show. show that man whoever paid for that damn show i've never had a show that big in my damn my own career i went back and saw the pictures i was like they had fireworks going off and shit like a kiss concert just in case you want to smoke chat just me oh you got your shit right there you got a mad smoke chat

you go right there I was just like the shit was crazy and then I got and I got a free Frank Mueller and a Lamborghini truck wait from the show?

nah a part of the deal? from the homie from the so when I got there when we landed we landed in the private airport you know what I mean

all that shit. I put my backpack through the little shit, through the little thing you sit your shit on, and it goes through the thing. I haven't been in the regular airport in a minute. I'm sorry. So that thing. The detector of some shit. I ain't did that shit in so long. So I was like,

what do I sit on? I set my backpack with all my jewelry on there. And so the lady said, I'm sorry, you know, the jewelry's too much. You got to, if it's over 25K, you got to, I think she was trying to say, if it's over 25K, you got to start, you got to declare it or something like that. Couldn't understand what she was trying to say. But anyway, so me, with me, I'm very, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good.

Thank you. I got the name. With her, she said, what I told, with me, I'm very no nonsense. So I was like, man, fuck all that shit. I went and got back on my plane. I was like, man, fuck it. I ain't coming out of here. I'm like, fuck it.

I'm going anywhere. I don't need to be here. I couldn't understand what she was saying. Didn't know that that was what she was saying about the jewelry and shit. I just thought she was saying something about my bag or whatever. So I was like, fuck all that shit. I'm gone. So I was sitting on my plane.

My pilot said, I figured they was too tired to leave, but my pilot said, shit, I got to leave. We can leave. I'll get you to Dubai. We can go to Dubai and sleep there for the night. I was like, shit, that sounds good to me. So all of a sudden as I'm sitting on my plane, everybody, niggas walk back on the plane like, yo, quote unquote, his excellency,

just found out about this shit. And he pissed and he said, you walk straight through, no nothing. I said, man, I'm not getting off my plane if it ain't what y'all just told me. If I ain't walk, I walk straight. When I got off the plane, everybody that was in that damn airport,

when I first walked through that bitch, they was like statues. Nobody said nothing. You're looking the other way When I first walked through that bit, there was like statues. Nobody said nothing. You're looking the other way. I walked straight through like... That happened to me, but not to you, okay? So then I get a text.

Yours is a way flyer. I get a text saying, yo, he's very upset. He would like to come to your room and apologize to you in person. The king? Yeah, his ex, I'm going to say, quote, unquote.

And they said, he would just take five minutes. I said, I ain't got no problem with it. He came, that motherfucker, he was highly upset. He was highly upset. He came and he said, he was like, 25K, you're a Jew over 25K. I bring you gift over 25K. And he made his home. He opened the gift, it was a Frank Mueller watch.

So I was like, yeah, that's definitely what 25... And then after, so when he was leaving the room, he said, he said, oh, I forget. Lamborghini or Ferrari? I thought it was a general question. Like, I do all the damn time. Oh, there's a general question.

You thought it was a quick time with Slom? Yeah, no, no, no. Like, you know, like, I do all the damn time. You do a quick time with Slom? You do it just like that? Yeah. No, no, no. Like, you know, like, I don't know shit. You know, like TD or QC. I thought it was a general question. Lamborghini or Ferrari? I said, oh, Lamborghini.

You know, I thought he was asking me what's better or something. You know, like, yeah, like quick time. Yeah, like quick time. Just like this. Like that. Yes. I wasn't thinking. Exactly. Like that. You know, like, shit, Lamborghini like this. Like that, yes. I wasn't thinking. Exactly, like that,

you know, like, shit, Lamborghini, Ferrari, I said, Lamborghini. What color? I said, oh, you talking about me one? I said, black. In front of your house

in three weeks, I am very sorry for this. You should have said, and Ferrari. Nah, look, I'm still thinking, I'm still thinking he joking, too. I'm still thinking he joking too.

I'm still thinking he pissed, just joking, not joking. Think he just showing his, showing his, showing his, yeah. I said, Lamborghini truck. I said, they knew. I heard they know I'm on a Lamborghini truck. They knew. I got that bit like two, three days ago. God damn it.

Make some noise for that. God damn it. I'm going to take a people's break. Let's do the shout out for the people's break. All right, let's do the shout for it. All right, let's do it. Let's do the shot for the big miss brand. Alright, let's do the shot first. Alright, let's do it. Alright, let's do the shot first. Cause I, I, I was gonna.

I'm taking that big miss brand. Oh, no, that's us, just us. Oh, it's just us, it's okay. Oh, I got you. Gotcha, there you go. There you go, Salus. Excuse me, guys. I don't know, can I hold it, yo?

I don't know, I got notes and shit like that. I don't take notes from a lot of niggas, nigga. I built me to get that bitch like two weeks ago, but he demanded that it didn't come in black and I heard that he demanded that they get that bitch wrapped in black. Oh, like the wrapped in charcoal, not the charcoal black. The charcoal black. Oh, like the charcoal black. Okay, all right. That's hard. And the card, he couldn't get it that way,

so he demanded that they wrap the bitch in black before they sent it to me. So I just got it. I was like, yeah, he a bad man. Well, he his excellency. That's my nigga. That's my nigga. I ain't gonna front.

I ain't gonna front. That sound like a new mixtape. His excellency. That's what I'm saying. That's my nigga. Whatever. What's your favorite one of your own mixtapes uh i think uh i say one of them i think dedication dedication dedication dedication for and anyone um i go through them

uh yeah let me look at all the names. I got the all the names. Diego, you want to put up all the names? Diego, yeah? Just the mixtapes, could you? I like the preface too. I go back and fuck with the preface. Yeah, Sarkfish, yeah. Sorry for the wait. One of them, I fuck with one of them,

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He said yes again. I love how you got the most normal-ish shit. Like, it's 100 hundred million rackets, bro. That is crazy. You can't go nowhere on earth where they don't know you. Like, for real. Like, you can't just go to TJ Maxx. You can go to the Masters Golf Competition in Georgia,

and they can't react. That was the funnest experience ever. Okay, I have no idea what you're talking about. Please just break it down. So when you're at the Masters, which is the biggest golf tournament. Of course. Yeah.

You can't, you know, you can't make no noise. Yeah, in Atlanta. No, you said Georgia. Yeah. There's a part of Georgia that ain't Atlanta. No, yeah. Because Atlanta, there's niggas everywhere in Atlanta. No, you said Georgia. Yeah. It's a part of Georgia that ain't Atlanta. No, yeah. Because Atlanta, there's niggas everywhere in Atlanta. Augusta.

Okay, I knew it. Augusta, Georgia. There's niggas everywhere in Atlanta. Yeah. All right, go ahead. So you can't make, you know, it's a golf tournament. You got to be quiet. Okay.

And so when you get there, they even give you a whole, you go to a room before you even hit the golf course. You go to a room and watch a TV like you're in fucking third grade. You watch a TV fucking special that lets you know what you can do and what you can't do. No phones. No phones. No loud reactions. You can only cheer when it's cheering time.

And that's all you can do. And so with that said, so he gets out there. We're walking around. You know, it's the masses that bitch pack it got over over such and such over double digit thousands of people

and is Tiger Woods playing? yeah okay alright so you went to the wind yeah this is a great story let's keep this going my g's they cannot do nothing

they just walk past you they gotta just do they just gotta just you know they just gotta just they see you they just gotta literally everybody there ain't no phones They just walk past you, they just gotta just, they just gotta just, they see you, they just gotta. Literally everybody, there ain't no phones,

ain't none of this, ain't none of this. They just see you, they just gotta. I was like, my nigga, I was just in that bitch like. You can't say nothing. You can't say nothing, nobody can't say nothing. Nobody. Imagine that. Thousands of people just, it's like a red sea just parting. They can't say nothing.

They just like. Everybody like. So you got to be invited to the Masters? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Because they invite me. I don't know. I won't be invited.

Because the escorts, they act like we was invited. Shout out my escorts. They at home. They at home. Yeah. Because what that said, the escorts, they was OGs. And because what that said, the people, you know, it's a golf tournament. If you want to sit at a certain hole, that means you sit there that whole day.

That's your seat. It's like a picnic. That's your ain't no seat. You know, ain't no roll. Ain't no roosting your chin with a round. Yeah, that's your spot. So for anybody to come ask for you, if you're one of the guys that just want to follow you,

or the guy that you're following, and he end up at a hole where somebody's been sitting there all damn day, it's hard to ask that person, can I come walk up over here and just watch him hit this one little hole, and I'm gone. Whoever my escort was, as soon as they would ask them, everybody was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we partied every little,

we watched every, and the guy who I wanted to win one from LSU, shout out LSU for kicking, for kicking that ass last week. You already know, shout out LSU.

Shout out LSU. Get the guy, get the guy. God damn, beat him up, man. All the backers was at the game too, right? Yeah, shout out.

All about, he smacked the cop's ass, right? Yeah, shut up The first lady didn't get the gap they was all in the White House don't get the gap So you ever you ever cuz you at that level, like Wayne, I'm just being honest. Like you at the level where like some people are looking at you like you don't have no race. Like you're just Wayne. Yeah. I love it.

That's ill. I love it. Is that something you like embrace or that's something like, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, like Michael was like that. Like Michael is Mike. You know what I'm saying? OJ thought he was like that. Then they remind me of him. Like nigga, you a nigga. You know what I'm saying? But like, you know what I'm saying like you know like Michael was like that like Michael was Mike you know what I'm saying OJ thought he was like that the name of mine was like nigga

you a nigga you know what I'm saying but like you know what I'm saying I know I'm a nigga trust me don't need no reminders I know I'm a nigga

okay yeah but um even even like after like even with the locked up

right thing right with the Beacon Theater and this is this is something I know I'm a little bit all over the place but this is something

I never know that you heard I heard that the Beacon Theater. And this is something, I know I'm a little bit all over the place, but this is something I never know that you heard. I heard that the Beacon Theater, the police was distorting the Beacon Theater, or not maybe distorting them, but they were telling them, like, yo, listen, y'all need us on this block.

And what happened was they had never, I think the Beacon Theater was like, fuck it, we got security, we got enough. And that day, they was making you

and Ja Rule an example. I haven't heard that. I haven't heard that. Because with that said, I got an explanation for why I think what happened. I went out there, and me and Ja, we brothers still to this day. He had told me that before I did, I think I went to either his show or just talked to him before I did my show. And he had some problems at his show with the law or whatever, at his show. So I know for a fact fact I showed my ass on stage

I was tripping then you know I was I think after every damn song I probably said when I say fuck y'all say the police I was just

you know fuck I was tripping that night I remember that so with that said we got stopped I figured we was gonna get probably like

these motherfuckers mad at me for tonight that's what I figured it was about and I haven like, oh, these motherfuckers mad at me for tonight. That's what I figured it was about, and I hadn't heard anything else other than that. Now, that night, though, they showed their ass. They was just too funny that night. The police, they was too funny. They didn't know who the hell I was. They didn't know who the hell to pick.

They didn't know the lady, the police, the female officer. She said, pshh. Sarge, yeah, said all of us on the, um, all of us on the curb, like 13 of us. She said, pshh. She said, Sarge, I got it right here. The rapper, little one. Okay, okay.

She said, tattoos, dreadlocks, gold teeth. She came back, she said, she flashed a light on us, she said, Sarge, that's all of them. But she said, sorry, that's all of them.

All of them got tattoos, dreams of going to T-Stars. You want to take all these niggas? All of them there. I told her when she passed out, I'm Lil Wayne, man. I don't know what they looking for. I'm that nigga Well cause you know

In New York we love you man I just want you to know that We want you to know that That was a fucked up night for you We apologize for the fucking You know the people But we love you in New York We want you to always know that

Let's make some noise for I ain't had not one tough day back then, man. Y'all show me too much love. I ain't had one tough day in Rikers, man. Not one. Wow, that's something great to hear. So now, because the whole time, we've been hearing you saying great things about Baby, right?

Mm-hmm. And Baby's my man as well. Spoke to him earlier. But it was a time where it was a misunderstanding. You don't have to get into it if you don't want to. the Carter Five, it was a whole campaign. This is when I asked you earlier, I said, do you realize how

much love you have in this industry? Because once there was a free Carter Five campaign, I'd never seen so many hashtags of people that I didn't know that knew you. But that was a real thing. That was like a, compared to like similar to like let the locks go. It was time for like people to just be like, you know what, Diddy, we love you.

We're not standing against you, but we're standing next to the locks at this time. And that's what I felt like people were doing. It was like, yo, baby, we love you. We fuck with you. You know what I'm saying? But, you know, the artistry, the artist system

was standing by you. Like, how did that feel? If you could explain that. Because, by the way, it was none of our business. No, that's all good. Family-wise, you know what I'm saying?

Like, family-wise. It was humbling. But, you know, everyone was standing with you. It was humbling, you know? Thank you. It was humbling. It made me feel like I ain't alone.

You know what I mean? When at that time, I definitely could have felt super alone. I could have felt like, like you said, my brother's been left. Right. I could have felt like, man, what the hell did you, you know what I mean? I could have felt very, but the industry made me feel like, boy, you better not stop. Boy, you better not hold your head. You know what I mean?

You better not hold your head down. You are who you are, and you're still going to do what you do regardless. With that said, being able to do what I do still regardless, that came from a question you asked earlier. That came from doing all those damn features years ago. Those same artists, even if it's not those same artists,

trickle down to artists that came from them. They notice he need help and he's in a bad place. So they notice he can't put out an album, but he damn sure can get paid if I ask him to do this feature and he damn sure could be on TV if I chose that feature as my single. He damn sure could still be in music if we do that. There's so many artists that did that just because. And was it really like that way?

Yeah. Like as an artist who's been through that before, right? Mine was on a different level, obviously. But really was it like that where you couldn't, where they were stopping you for putting out anything? Or was it because all you wanted to do was put out the car to fire? No, they were stopping anything. Wow.

And this is from the higher ups? This is from everything? I don't know where it was coming from. I couldn't push it out. I know that much. Right. Yeah. Right.

And then it finally gets worked out. Everything get worked out through time. You know, time heals all. Time heals all. And time start building. That number start growing. And at some point it's going to clash. And everything happens for a reason.

And so I'm going to make the most of it. As soon as I was waiting for it to happen, as soon as it happened, I was going to take advantage of it. And once it did, I have. And now I'm in a position that I've always ever wanted to be in and that's running I run everything. You know, I make it rain. I tell it when I form the clouds around this motherfucker.

I'll tell you a funny story. One night we was in the hip factory and this is before anything ever. And I forget, who was the quarterback that went from Denver to the coast of Denver?

Peyton Manning. Peyton Manning. All right, I'll tell you though, let's look. So this is what everyone is signing the cash money. Shout out Peyton Manning

from New Orleans. Everyone is signing the cash money. Everyone is in hit factory, right? I think it's like Scott Stodge. I think Fat Joe was trying to sign the cash money I think Busta Rhymes over

there I think this is just a second this is just about session which is in and you walked out he said he said man, you had the whole room swayed. Everybody's sitting there. Talk about, yo, we're going to give her cash money. You're going to go to cash money. And you just walked out and just said, I don't know why you said it. I don't know what you meant by it. Because I wouldn't have to say, who the fuck is Peyton Manning?

I knew Eli Manning! I was like, oh shit, the nigga done switched off! Oh shit, this nigga way about to leave everybody! Yo, I ain't gonna lie, you soak up that place in a way, because you know, this was the hottest time that, I don't know if you realize, cash money was like Death Row Bad Boy

Rockefeller and Rough Riders together had a baby on steroids from the south and just high and I got to hear the greatest, I don't know, I've never been in these studio sessions, but I got to hear the greatest i don't know i've never been in these studio sessions but i got to hear the greatest rapper and you just said that and it was just like

this was the illest shit i've ever heard and like this this is the power that you you you had you have thank you yes man i didn't know what i meant i don't know what I meant. I don't know what I meant. I don't know what you meant. I know other stories about Peyton, so I could have probably meant something else, even from New Orleans. So, it's just one story I always go back to about Peyton, so I'm not sure if I meant that, too. Right, right. Yeah, but I probably meant what you said, too.

Right. Yeah. Because another thing Jay told me was, that was like, he just met with you generically. And then he called Birdman. And when he called Birdman to say he met with you, that Birdman called him lawyers. And him and Birdman's relationship has not been the same since. So, was that something you knew about?

No, I didn't. Oh, okay. No. All I know, what I did know is that the homie you know he would keep it you know his main focus his main goal was again making sure i was good making sure i was good so what that said when it came to you know he would just use he would just you know let me know that i'm going through some things we're trying to get it to we're trying to get it to be official. We're trying to get you over here, trying to get it to be right, but I'm going through some things

over there. It's not easy. It's not easy, but I'm going to go through every loop I got to go through to make sure you're okay. Because using sports examples, if you know your quarterback is going to... I see where Baby was coming from. Like, it's different.

But, like, you know, Wayne, maybe not a little happy right now. And he going to meet with Hove. Yeah. Yeah. That's Bill Belichick, my niggas. Like, I don't want that. Like, to the, to the, now that you think about it. Yeah.

You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah. I ain't going to lie. That was, like, that was some deep shit. That was some deep shit. But you got two of the, how that you're thinking about it? I feel, yeah. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, I ain't gonna lie, that was like, that was some deep shit. That was some deep shit, but you got two of the, how did that feel like when you had?

I don't think I was, I was more focused on getting right. Yeah, more focused on getting myself together. Yeah, I mean,

getting shit right. And when you work like I work, and when, you know, you expect, you expect nothing to fall. Right.

You know what I mean? You expect everything to go as procedure as it can. You wake up every day at the same time. You work as many hours as you're going to work, and all you know is that it works. Right. All you know is that everyone around this bitch is smiling and eating.

When everything goes down, it's hard to make a person like me that all I do is work. It's hard to stop me and slow down and no, I try to embrace everything that just happened. Right. You know what I mean? So it's like, when I'm just, you know what, I know that just happened. I know that's fucked up, but I'm still about to work. Right.

And I'm that guy, so I think I worked through it all. And so I had, there was no time for me to have any emotion about man i can't believe i got this guy or talking to this guy i was not um it wasn't now i probably ain't gonna see who it was i was talking to yeah i mean if you ain't the next song move on but now you running your own And yo, that's a beautiful fucking thing. That's a beautiful blessing, man. And you know what? You deserve it. Everything. Thank you, man.

And continue it. So the thing is this. One of our records we was also on, right? I believe was Grinding Remix. Okay. Clips. Clips. Yeah.

And I don't know where this relationship went wrong. I don't either, bro. Get out of here. I swear to God. With Clips And I don't know where this relationship went wrong Did it I don't either bro Get out of here I swear to God With clips Yeah Well

Specifically Push it Yeah I don't know I swear to God I don't I don't know I think

I don't I just found out like You know It was like One of them You ever see When an athlete Get traded

And don't know And he gets told during a press conference. And he's like lost. So how do you feel that Houston just traded you to Kansas City? Oh. He's like, he's looking at the agent. He's talking about it. Excuse me, one second.

Cut the commercial. Come back and have a proper, proper answer. So, so yeah so now that um i spoke to my agent yeah that i was like man it was like yeah man you know why you what you gonna do you gonna come back and push them like what you mean i'm like i'd love to do something with him like now you know he dissing you now because particularly there's a record that came out with rick recently, right? Yeah. And Rick Ross supposedly put you and Pusha on the record. When the record comes out, the record is just you on there, and there's no Pusha T. So I don't know what the rumor is, but in the industry,

we always notice a clearance issue maybe on this part. Obviously, you cleared your part. As always. Right. So do you think that it was on their side? I don't even know nothing about it. I heard it once, heard about that once. That was random news

to me because it was his joint. I wouldn't know who he had on it anyway or who he was supposed to have on it. You don't have to ask those questions. You're too much of a real nigga. We're going to start protecting you a little bit more. You can't just close the records. Send me the joint.

Right. Let me know what the subject is. If you may have, I think he may have had a hook on it already. It may have had a title to it already, so I just do my part.

Because Ross and Tis just was pure. Yeah. Ross is, I believe I know Ross long enough. No, he didn't mean nothing by it. I don't think he meant anything by it.

I don't know. What did he do? Nope, he had you and Pusha on the same record. So, but when the record came out, officially, it was just you on it. So, if people are trying to, like, you know, figure out... Say why he didn't have the homie on that. I'm not sure.

I don't even know the record. Swear to God. Yeah. I got to live in Wayne's world for a little while, my nigga. I love the world you live in. You really block out society. The Red Room? I love that about niggas. I love that about niggas. You know what I'm saying?

I'm going to take a double shot for you. Give me a shot for me and a shot for Wayne, nigga. No, because you know why you deserve this, man. You know what? And I love the way you live in your own world. Because you know what? People that mind their own business don't ever start no shit. I ain't no shit start at all. You know what I'm saying?

So you know if a nigga fucking with Wayne, you know he fucking. Because ain't no shit start at all. You know what I'm saying? So you know, if a nigga fucking with Wayne, you know he fucking, because Wayne is in his own goddamn world, man. We burning sage, and we living good, drinking Bomb,

I'm going to make sure I make this, pronounce this shit right. Bomb boo. Yes. Bomb boo. I'm drinking Bomb boo all motherfucking night.

I hate getting, and I hate when, I'm fucking with him with this. You fucking with me? I hate when, I hate when you get the bitch after the club, the drunk bitch is like, oh, that's your drink. I love it. It's boo-boo. Boo-boo or something drunk.

Let me get some of that bamboo. Bitch ain't no bamboo in here. That's good. I hate that shit. I hate that. Let's get on that too, man. Say it. I ain't gonna lie, man.

Every other week at one point, you was knocking every bitch down. I'm gonna keep it real. You had a song, I Wish I Got Buck and Me Girl. I think you 95% complete. I think you 95% complete. I'm gonna, in my mind, you're 95. You might be 97 right now.

I haven't been paying attention to you in a little while. I'm gonna be rude for you. I'm gonna be rude for more. I'm gonna be rude. Take him down, baby. Take him down. I'm married. I'm fucked up.

So I'm not gonna live vicariously with somebody else. In my mind, he's probably like finger popping right now. Like right now, he's probably a little bit finger popping. Like I feel like he finger popping somebody that came over. He got a girl. I'm sorry. If you don't. I curious to somebody else in my mind Big a pop like I feel like anything about the mighty game Way too late to ask that question When you was not at one point I know, I'm like, wow, I like my nigga, it's going in.

I did my thing. At one point, like keep it real. I'm a lover, not a liker. Okay, but you like, your jerseys hung up or no? You still got your, your jerseys still floating around, you still doing your world tour like Kobe Bryant? Yeah. You're not doing Kobe Bryant's last world tour,

it's not, hey nigga, hold up. Like bowling balls, is it what you're saying? I'm very proud of you. In that world as well. In that world as well. Come on, let's be clear, man. Let's be clear. A lot of niggas ain't man with Wayne. Man, bro. For real.

I'm a lover, not a liker, man. Yeah, you're a lover, not a liker. I don't know what that means, but it sounds great. I only got you. I'm a lover, not a liker, man. But you've been through a lot. It's a problem, actually.

And you just learned how to DM. I seen it somewhere. You just learned it? Man, think, no. Coop this man. Because I get too. Cause I get too fucking, I get argued

all day, but you know, but I get, there's an argument all the time, like, I DM'd you. My bitch,

I just learned. I seen him in an interview. I seen him in an interview, he just learned how to deal. But yeah,

you gonna keep striking, you gonna keep striking. Nah, you need to learn to DM now. I don't know, but my niggas, my niggas, they be telling me how to do it. But you're gonna keep striking. You're gonna keep striking. You need to learn to do it now. I don't know, but for my niggas, for my niggas, they be telling me how they do it on the DM. I don't know how to do it. I'm not something personal.

That's good. I'm dealing with a couple of dudes for an interview. Whoa. Because, you know, I mean, whoa. I gotta relax. I gotta relax. Whoa. Whoa.

For an interview, I'm very confident in my mask. You gotta relax. You gotta relax. Whoa, whoa. For any of you, I'm very confident in my mask. Those dudes are mad happy right now. Hey man, it might be you. You might be relaxed. No, not me. We. Nah, nah, but wait. You was really out there.

Are you still out there like that? Nah, my wifey sleeps in that jersey every night. Wifey sleeps in that jersey, yes. Okay, okay, okay. Oh, so your jersey is hung up. She's sleeping in it, yeah. You know you got your jersey 52 states, though. You know, you got it.

You got it. All right, listen, I'm sorry. You said wifey? I thought you said girlfriend, I'm sorry, you said wifey? I thought you said girlfriend. Wifey! He said wifey, man. Alright, I gotta be clear, I gotta be clear. But, look, you gotta, you gotta, you gotta respect your past, like, you know, a little

more. Oh, yeah, we, uh, watch this 1998, you know, I got two years. You gotta respect your past, where we come from. I got a 1998, 2001, finished. So, I had a crazy year. Had a crazy year. MVP four years, nigga, did my D. Did my D. Did my D.

Did my D. Did my D. Did my D. Did my D. Did my D. 2001 Like my curious to you I got that BoJack. Yeah, I got the BoJack. But I live like vicarious through you, Drake, Nas. Now he a dog. No, Drake a dog. He's a bad motherfucker. Yeah, he, yeah, he. He has that red shit. That red, he red, nigga, huh? He went with that when he got up over me.

When he got up over me. Nah, nah, nah, nah, I'm telling you. He went because he got the red and he got the singing. The singing. See that right there? And then you throw the rap in it. And you know, he got a few. He's Canadian, too.

He's very nice. No, I don't do it. I don't even bring that in. He's very nice. Very nice. Yeah. So, you know, but I got that, too. I got the Southern Hospitality.

Southern Hospitality. Very nice, too, as well. So I win with that. I'm like up front. You look like you're a rose. Like, a rose? Like, rose. I would go pick that motherfucker. Yeah, I could tell you're romantic.

I would go pick that motherfucker. Show her the blood from thorns. Wait, blood? I would show her the blood from the thorns. You got crazy. Yes, I would give it. Blood from picking the thorns. Okay, all right.

Cool, all right. Damn, Wayne, all right. All right. Yeah, I will give it. Blood from a pig in the dog. Yes. Okay, all right. Cool, all right. Damn, Wayne, all right. All right. Yeah, I was raised by my mom. She taught me you got to go to a whole nine plus more for a woman, for your woman, if she matters. So Valentine's Day is coming up. What is Lil Wayne doing for Valentine's Day? I don't know.

I don't know yet. You know, Martin Lawrence got a tour in North Carolina, South Carolina. In case you want to catch the private plane, I got the fuel. Okay. I hit you. You got the fuel? That's it? That's all you got?

Hold up, man. Let me ride with you. Let me let this man. With that said, man, with that said, that is the most, that is what you pay for. That man knows. Yeah, that's it. That's right. If he say he got the fuel, we gone.

You out, you out, you out. We gone. Let's go, because that's what costs the most, man. The fucking fuel, boy. Is that so dope when you think about it? You like, you from, you know, New Orleans was at one point the murder capital. Sometimes still is, right? Every other day it changes, right?

That's where we got cash money. That's where the cash money come from that year. Right. And the world, like, some world's environments in America at one point. Yeah. It's changed a lot. They got gentrification. They got Starbucks and shit.

Yeah. What? Yeah. You know, one time I went to New Orleans, y'all niggas barely had McDonald's. Yeah, I know. I like G-Louise. But you had churches.

Yeah, we got churches, but we got Popeye's. See, Popeye's was originated in New Orleans. And let me make that story clear, because a lot of people think Popeye's is just some general fast food place. And they don't know. They think that we just put the word Louisiana on there for nothing. Let me give you history.

Al Copeland was an orphan. He's a white guy. He's passed. Rest in peace. His name is Al Copeland. He was an orphan. And in that house that he was raised in, he was an old black woman.

And it was a house full of kids. He was an orphan. So he would be the only kid that would sit in the kitchen and watch her fry chicken when it was dinner time. And that's how he came up with Popeye's. That was my mom's, one of her first jobs. My mom's a chef. Wow. Did we just get a Popeye's?

Hell yeah. That's what we do at Drink Jazz. All right. You had a chicken sandwich? I yeah. That's what we do at Drink Jams. And this is, oh, all right. You had a chicken sandwich? I had it. It was,

it's, it's, it's, yeah, so my chef made it. My chef made it for me and that was awesome. That's how rich you is. You ain't even go out

to get your own shit. That was awesome. I got the, I got one out and got it and then the chef, I noticed that chef put it on the menu a few times

and I was like, is this what chef's trying to say? And so I picked it one day, and it was the same thing, and it was awesome. So you have a menu in your crib? No, I get texted the menu every night. We have 50 on here.

We have buffalo on here. We have naan on here. Let's pretend we get it, too. I can't believe it. Hold on, let me check my text. Wait, let me check my text. I got a text too. I'm gonna tell you what.

I'm gonna tell you what my text say. My wife says I'm home taking medicine. It's not as exciting as this nigga text. So you enjoy being coupled up? I think I thought, I felt like you was a single nigga forever. Like, no. But no, no, no. But you enjoy it? I enjoy it.

Yes, I do. I like that, man. I like that. I want to see, because you, no wedding vow, not yet. Like, eventually in the future, I feel like you want to be a wedding nigga. Like, you going to have a wedding nigga. I definitely want to be a wedding nigga in the future, yes.

I want to, I'm going to run down that motherfucker I want to run down that motherfucker when I run down that out I'm not saying it matters like I'm with Kevin Hart if it don't work. It's me this time So I gotta be very careful I'm gonna use that I like Use that mentally I'm gonna use that mentally, you know what, Buffett? Don't work this time. It's your ass. You ain't seen Camel Hard shit neither? Damn, Wayne. We got to get you on Netflix or something.

You don't have Netflix. You just watch sports. That's it. I watch National Geographic and Discovery. You know what I watch a lot? I've been watching the History Channel because it just started showing World War II in color. That's a good one.

I've been watching that shit heavy. Heavy, heavy. World War II in color is awesome. So what I mean by that, you know, every war they have to, the soldiers, there's one or two soldiers or at least more that's filming. Like they get trained, the whole shit,

like they train to kill and all that. But their job is to go to war on the battlefield and just film that shit. They finally released all that footage, my nigga. My nigga. My nigga. I'm talking about you just watching the camera all of a sudden, everything go boom, and you just see the sky.

You see the sky. That nigga dead, man. That shit's dead, man. What camera be? Camera, that nigga dead. That shit is ill, man. What camera be? Camera be that nigga. That nigga a girl, man. Camera niggas over here think they work in this shit. That shit a girl.

Go to World War II with us and shit like that. Those are real cameras, nigga. Real cameras, that nigga a girl. Yeah, so that's what I be into. So what you love more, performing or making the music? Making the music. Get the fuck out of here. I see you perform.

I thought you were. You can't take what that said performance to me on a scale of one to ten is a hundred. So it's still both. I started off with performance. That's how I started doing this whole thing, performing, dressing up as Michael Jackson for my grandmother and her friends. Yeah, they just drunk in the living room. They want some entertainment. I'm about to put that wig on and come up there

and tear that fucking living room up. Yeah. I got tired of rapping other people's stuff. You know, when it's time to do the little performances for everybody, I got tired of saying a song that you heard already. And that's what made me finally go to the, you know, that day, one of those days, next time I go out there,

I'm going to sing my own stuff and see what happens. And I did, and it worked. So that's when I kept at it, yeah. Now, Drop It Like It's Hot and Bling Bling got to be like the hip-hop dictionary. Yes, it did. Bling Bling first. Bling Bling.

Shout-out Magnolia Shorty, rest in peace. That was a female artist for Cash Money. She helped me come up with that one. The line was, tell me what kind of nigga got diamonds that'll blind you. So I always rap my verse to somebody first before I do it. I rapped it to her. She was like, that shit cool, but you need to do one of them little sound effects you do. You know, like Missy. You know, that's my favorite artist. And so she was like,

Missy's your favorite artist? Yeah. Wow. And she was like, you need to do one of your fucking favorite artists. Do a little sound or something. I was like, I don't hear, where would it come in at? I was like, tell me what kind of nigga got diamonds that are blind. She was like, what sound diamonds make? I was like, fuck, bling? She was like, tell me what kind of nigga got diamonds that'll bling blind you. And so I did that, and that's when, after I did that. That's tough. After I did that, Manny Fresh was like, that's a hook.

You know, it became, it started off just that line in the song. Manny Fresh was like, that's a hook. We need that. He made me run it on the feet like I need a faster beat. Wow. And he came back and it was bling bling. Every time I come around,

it's like bling bling. That's how it should start. Did you think like the white people would take that shit? Fuck no. I didn't think they was going to know

what the hell we talking about. You know what I mean? What are you even talking about? I was in Hawaii the other day. They just said bling bling. I was like,

what the fuck? These niggas don't even know where he is right now. What the fuck are these niggas don't even know what it is right now what the fuck are these niggas walking

you know but that shit is humongous yes that's regular vocabulary

in all of America and the world like you said on I watch

your sports and when they say it as a regular word you know

like he got his bling on and his bling no stopping no laughing at what

you just said no back then You know that's like Stuart Scott saying booyah, you know, we're gonna react to it They saying bling like like they like that's a regular so his bling to the left was on the tip of the like wow That's a real word Geez the weeds Papa cheese make some noise for that guy I got no crack. I'm sorry. I'm taking it to my nose. Are you good? Okay? Okay, Oh also said it was his suggestion put you on the soldier remix. Let me quote him again I'm sorry this I don't know I went to my nose. I don't know. Let me go to this. I don't know

His shit I'm gonna notice shit like I'm a fucking journalist. I gotta relax He said He was messing with beating I Put him on soldier he was messing with B then I put him on Soldier Beyonce Soldier song right I remember her saying Wayne and I said yep

I trust me it's gonna go it was a all I can know all I know that I can attest to at that time was whoever whoever's idea was to put me on that, I know for a fact that it was a gamble for that, you know, for whoever. So whoever was in charge of that, I remember, you know, being told,

you know, being told that killers, because this is a gamble for these, you know, they were Destiny's Child, you know. And I remember being a little insulted about it. I remember being like, because we watched it. We came up with them. They from Houston. That's right. They stayed old.

So we've done shows with them when they wasn't. We've had shows with them when it was the Hot Boys, Hot Headline, and that bitch. You know what I mean? Destiny Child, these little four little girls from Houston. You know what I mean? So I was like, damn, they blew up like that. That's where a nigga telling me, man, make sure you kill this. Because what I mean by gamble, I mean so I was like damn they blew up like that to where a nigga telling me man make sure you kill this because

what I mean by gamble meaning there's certain features that I got that I got in my career that it was not a guarantee you know it was like you know you do a verse on this and maybe you'll be the one to end up

on this joint but they also thinking about putting such and such on this joint. But they also thinking about putting such and such else on this joint too. So that was, but that was so long ago. You know what I mean? They don't do things like that now, but I, and that was one of those joints.

That was one of those joints. I don't know if that's how it was. He wasn't for sure on the record. Yeah. It was like, you know, so you better kill this because you know, this is a,

and if they do choose you, I even knew that this was a gamble for them. You know, why, why y'all even messing with a Lil Wayne? You know, I'm around this bitch talking about pussy and this and that. Y'all Destiny Child. Beyonce about to be a Beyonce one of these days. You know what I mean?

So it was a gamble, and that shit worked. That shit worked. We ended up on tour together. Goddamn, we got close. JT, my dear. That's crazy, man. That's hard. I'm just saying, man.

It's just, I want you to- I remember just the wardrobe for the video, all that was serious. All that was, you know, don't do too much, don't do too little. You know, all that was very serious, that shit. Crazy. So I never knew he had nothing to do with it.

Yeah. All I knew was- So it was the first time you hear him with that. I swear to God. I never knew that. All I knew was it was... So it was the first time you heard of him? I swear to God. I never knew that. All I knew was it was... You know, I was at that age, I was still kind of a student to the game, and I was still kind of a, you know,

you go left, go left. You tell me where to go. Wherever they told you to go, you just do it. Yeah, I was still that guy. You tell me. So this was handed to me on my... You know, hey, got this feature for you. It's called soldier.

You got TI on here. You know what I mean? And, but it was also told to me, which I don't know if it was true. It was also told to me. So like we, they,

they trying to, um, you guys. So it was like, this was a test for me and him for the Southern. All right. That's what it was being told to me. Like this was you or T.

No, no, me and him. Okay. And we was like Like for the southern Like features Yeah And not it gonna be

Some other guy Yeah not it's gonna be Somebody you were already expecting That's gonna be him A J You know what I mean So it was like You know you guys need to

I didn't I knew not We didn't know each other like that But I already knew He gonna kill his shit I'm gonna kill my shit And we gonna be on this fucking song And that's how it happened

God damn This is a great fucking story. Wow. Again, I got 1,900 other artists in this shit, but I just, I ain't gonna find a way with your hoes. Nah, you good. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I had, you know, wow, what should I do?

I mean, the fuck? I ignored a lot of these other niggas. Once he answered, I mean, what the fuck? I ignored a lot of these other niggas. Once he answered, I said, fuck it! I went too far. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. But it's real shit. It's real shit. I just want you to know how much you're revered about our generation, our culture,

because, like I said, I'll tell you a crazy story one night one night and it's got nothing to do with this interview but it has everything to do with it

is one night I'm in LA and I'm just you know I'm just by myself and Kid Cudi hits me and was like yo can you come with me

to a show and I was like no problem so I go to him to a show and I didn't think these kids would appreciate me at all and what I didn't think these kids would appreciate me at all.

And what I didn't know is, you know, like, these kids is guards to Pharrell. And they actually did know that I have something to do with Pharrell. So when I came on the stage with Kid Cudi, these kids went crazy. And the thing is, I just never knew, like, these other audiences. so my question to you is like

when you start going to the rock and roll route where you it wasn't like like was it something that you was confident you say you're confident this whole time but but still like you know you start right you know the shiny bells it was certain things you started to rock the air rings right here the goals you know in a different way yeah was that something that you was like you know, the shiny belts. It was certain things you started to rock, the earrings right here, the goals, you know, in a different way. Was that something that you was like, you know what? My hip-hop audience might turn their back on me. I remember you was doing

Blink-182. I just came up to it. I think even Lip Biscuit had signed and all that. Was that something like you was a little bit worried or you was, you know, I know you said the confidence, but still, like, it's got to be a part of us to say, you know what, you know, the true hip hop core. You know, the thing about that, when I did that, the thing that mattered the most was the people around me, my friends. You know, they showed they showed lack of interest in it.

Yeah. OK. My friends. Lack of interest. Lack of interest. Like my friends did when I did reggaeton, so I relate to that. They showed up, you know, like, you know, my friends, you know, they want to hear everything I do. You know, when I come, when they hear, they already know, they want to hear what you did, like, what's the last thing you done,

what's the last, let me hear that shit. And when they start noticing that, it's this, you know what I mean, it's this rock shit. And all that died, all that, let me hear the last thing you did, let me hear it, you know what I mean, then when I play it for them, you know, things like that, rock shit and all that died all that let me hear the last thing you did in here you know me and then when I play it for me nothing's like that shit don't leave a blink 81 of these who told us I just left it just came off of it yeah yeah thank my name too okay you finished it yeah okay yeah that was a rumor man I was there say that I went on stage and

said I'm not used to this crowd I'm not I don't know I'm not I, I'm not used to this crowd. I'm not, I don't know, I'm not, I had said I'm not used to opening, coming out this early and watching people still file in as I'm performing. That's what I fucking said. Everybody, and I saw the rumor came out, I said, I'm not used to a rock and roll crowd. No, nigga, I'm not used to coming out this fucking early and motherfuckers

just coming. Niggas are still sitting down while I'm not. You know, we gonna come out, we gonna set this shit back later or something. And that's what happened. I started't know. You know, we're going to come out. We're going to set this shit back later or something. And that's what happened. I started going out later. Well, anytime you got a rumor

that you want to straighten out, you can come right here. This is your house. This is your home. We want you to do that. We're not cutting this up. We still want to talk. But I just want you to know,

anytime you want to do this, this is your house. This is your home. And we appreciate it here. Thank you, man. You know what I'm saying? This is your home. And we appreciate it here. Thank you, man. You know what I'm saying? Because it's real talk. And we down the street.

Yeah, we down the street. And we used to work right across the street from you. We heard you have a skate park in the studio. We literally across the street from you. We ain't going to say

we don't blow it up with it because we there. You know what I'm saying? But across the street. Yeah, we were running across the street. Right down the street. We've never been in New York.

No, we've never been in New York. We've always been in Miami. Yeah, we've always been in Miami. Yeah, you know, I lived in Miami 14 years too. Yeah. We've never been, you know, we've always been in Miami. Yeah, we've always been in Miami. Yeah, I lived in Miami 14 years, too. Yeah. And I never left. Yeah, he's gone.

Yeah, but, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm, you knew all this. Yeah. To the core. But your second home is Miami. Oh, definitely. Definitely. I'm New York to the motherfucking core. Yeah, I'm telling you.

To the bone bristle. You already know. But I'm New York to the motherfucking cold. To the bone bristle. You already know. But I'm a Miami nigga. If you want to catch me dropping, if you want to catch me, but I'm a New York nigga, listen, listen. If you want to catch me out of the air, I'm a Miami nigga. Like, I came from, like, I like it. It's kind of cool.

It's kind of cool. I don't- You more than like it. You live in this motherfucker, yo. I love it. Okay. I love it. But don't get it twisted. Once the this motherfucker. I love it. Okay. I love it. But don't get it twisted.

Once the winter stops, I still go back home. I go back. But during the winter, I cannot do it. I don't want to be cold no more. I think I worked enough to not be cold.

I appreciate that. I agree with that. Do New Orleans get cold in the winter? No. No, right? It gets cool. You know, to us in New Orleans, you know, also we, like Miami, we used to have a damn weather.

And so, you know, once it hit fucking 72 out here, we like, oh, it's fucking freezing. In New Orleans, once it get like 40, we like, man, what the fuck is going on? Yeah, because 32 degrees is freezing. Okay, what's going on? Y'all all right? What the fuck is all that clapping over there, guys? Y'all not happy to see each other like that? Crushing weed.

Crushing weed? That ain't no fun. That sound like gun crushing weed. I didn't know what it was. You crushing glass. Yeah, but yeah. So, yeah, I'm not. By me traveling everywhere, I'm used to different, you know.

But, yeah, I understand what you mean. Sometimes we didn't do too much to be dealing with the elements, man. We got to deal with comfort. That's right. Comfort zone. As long as we still get it in. Yeah. And we work hard.

Yeah. But, like, what I was saying was once that shit came out and once I started going going once I hit a tour and my friends got to see that shit in front of them and see wow he's created another fucking world and what happened was I had you know I bought all my skaters on tour with me and my whole set was a tour skate park my whole tour stayed so much they got to see that shit and got to see that while he packing his bitch every night and guess what it's them folks and hit it every night they ain't here to see that shit and got to see that while he packing his bitch every night. And guess what? It's them folks in here every night. They ain't here to hear that motherfucker. Whatever, to hear him scream.

Right. Whatever the hell he about to come out here and do, they screaming it right back at him. So to show them mattered a lot to me. To show my friends that, you know, I understand it ain't your wave. But just know that whatever wave I form, you better get on that motherfucker with me. Because it's going to end up being a title As a fan, you know, you know Kanye West got Sunday service I don't know that what Kanye West got Sunday service like when he goes out he does church. He does like a certain thing now

So I thought of little Wayne skate park Saturdays. Okay. I want in on this, Wayne. Okay. All right, so Skate Park Saturdays, you go everywhere, and you just take your crowd or audience,

they skate park, and mama, I don't know why, they got popcorn and candy cane. What is this shit, candy? Candy. Candy. Candy. You got candy,

and you got your fans. They come out. It's skate park Saturdays. Wayne, Louisiana is going fucking lit. Everywhere. They get to skate with Wayne. Any park. This is why people come to Sunday service.

They love the Lord. They love the Jesus. But they want to hang out. He do it at a certain spot. No, he does it anywhere he wants to. He's moving around now. Yeah, but we're going to set it off. You want Tommy Hawk?

He'd really be, he'd really be. It's not Tommy Hawk, it's Tony Hawk. You know that, man. You know that, man. I'm just listening. Tony's gay vert.

Yeah, me and Tony. He's gay vert. He's gay vert? He's gay vert across Gay Street. You know Mark Gonzalez? Yes. That was my favorite skater.

I was a skater when I was a kid. Yeah. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mark Gonzalez is my favorite. He's a street skater. Mark is a motherfucking dog.

What are we going with this? Hold on. What? I was a skater. I was a skater. I've never heard you say you was a skater, boy. Vision Streetwear. Mark is a guy.

Mark Gonzalez is my favorite skater. He was a Latino. He was a guy. He was a graffiti artist. He designed all his skateboards. He just liked anything about it. That's all. He's racist.

That's it. I think he won't know anything about skating. Mark Gonzalez is the man, bro. He's a guy. Yeah, he's a guy. He just like anything about Benzala. He racist, that's it. That nigga don't know anything about skateboarding. Mark Gonzalez is the man, bro. Yeah, he got it. Yeah, he got it. He's a great guy. Yo, Mark Gonzalez is the man, bro. I'm going to roll with you because where he got your back?

He OG, too. Let me just tell you how rich Wayne is. Look at this nigga. Look at this nigga Roach. This nigga Roach is a nigga whole. I know a nigga like Boris Can roll three blunts Out of this thing God damn

That's my man Big up to Boris man Make some noise for Boris So it's like You know I know I'm bouncing around But you know This is when I google you

At age 12 Like you actually Shot yourself Like what the hell What happened What's going you at age 12, like, you actually shot yourself? Yeah. What the hell? What happened? What's going on? Like, is it that bad at 12?

You know what the hell? It is that bad. Yeah, man. Like, for real. What's that bad? I mean, New Orleans. No, no, no. I got you fine.

The gun at 12. It's that bad. It's that bad, but nah. It was that bad. It's better now. All right. Yeah. And they were saying you're trying to, but nah. It was that bad. It's better now. All right. Yeah. And they were saying you trying to commit suicide.

I don't think you trying to commit suicide. You was playing with the gun in my mind. I was playing with the gun. I was doing the wrong thing, tripping. Okay. I was listening to Biggie. Biggie. And I was looking through a mirror.

Fuck. So Biggie was on. The TV was behind me. I'm looking at, trying to look at Biggie through the mirror. That nigga said, baby, baby. That's the song. That was the video baby, baby. Baby, that's the song. That was the video that was on. What?

Baby, baby. That's all I remember the last words he said. Baby, baby. That's the last thing I remember him saying. You shot yourself to One More Chance? Yeah. Damn. You can't be doing that.

Yeah, that's the one with the feet. I mean, it kind of makes sense, One More Chance. Yeah, that nigga come out. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. He said, you got to let me say One More chance. Yeah. I think I climbed. Oh, shit. Oh, shit. He said, you got to let me

say one more chance. I don't know if you know, Wayne, we celebrate, listen, Wayne, we celebrate your life because I'm going to be honest, you are a goat for real.

Thank you, brother. In real time. Thank you. Like, in real time. Like, I was, you were for four years and you know what the crazy shit is?

You never told me no. Matt May has never told me no and you guys have never lied to me years, and you know what the crazy shit is? You never told me no. Matt May has never told me no, and you guys have never lied to me. People from the industry, I really respect that, you know what I mean? Because I'm used to being lied to. When I meet people, I'm like, all right, cool, you're going to lie to me four times. And then, you know, I might give you one or two. You know what I mean? And that's how it is.

But when you got people that you know that you fuck with, like, I remember, like, I'm jumping all over the place, but even when you said, you did a record with Jay-Z and you did, I think it was called Hello Brooklyn. And your opening line was, Hello Brooklyn, what's your story? She says she on the run eating bus. She ain't nori To be in the club I was in the club and then then, right, that's mixtape week. Yeah, that was a verse with that said,

that was a mixtape verse that he just, he say, fuck that, we making this bitch about to be my single. Oh, word? Yeah.

That was the verse that was out already? Yeah. And Ho was on it like that? Yeah. Okay. All right, Ho, we on your ass.

All right, come on, where you supposed to be popping this? Come on, man. You know you working too hard when you do the Dominicans job So wow I didn't know that so listen, I'm be honest Wayne you can be hot you didn't know that I was like Oh shit, but more like that that they want to buy in but she ain't you the hottest nigga in the game time You had no reason to shot me up

then You were the hottest nigga in the game at the time. You had no reason to shot me up. Uh-uh. Then, this nigga do a joint, believe me. Nigga said, who's the cream cream that smells like porno noise? I can't tell you how much bottles I popped to that right there, my nigga. I would be in the club, just, woo! God damn it!

God damn, no, I wish it! God damn it! I know, I wish it! Every other journalist, every other journalist in the world is going to watch this part and be like, what just happened? We can't relate to that exactly because you're not a rap legend. You got to relax. This is what separates us. I'm not a journalist neither. I am just a entertainer. Slash, slash, slash rap fucking legend.

God damn it! Nah, but for real Wayne, I'ma be honest, like, you know, we're sports analogists, people, and I can remember, like, you know, like I said, you was a little guy, so you were going from, like, from one year, what is it, most improved player? Mm-hmm. To MVP.

Mm-hmm. And that same, most people don't do that. Mm-hmm. Like, they go from, like, and for you to do that and then to transition to where you transitioned to. And I guess I'm a little bit crazy, but what is the most person that was a fan of you that you couldn't comprehend? Like somebody that said, yo, I'm a Lil Wayne fan. And you're looking like, oh, shit, John Travolta, you got to relax.

I got that person for you. It's my man. I think it's my man's. I don't want to make sure we don't put this part on there because I would hate to get this man name wrong. What's my man from YouTube? And from Not from the Stones. Rolling Stones?

Yeah. Big Jack? Nah. We got Googles all over the place. Bono? Yeah. Oh, YouTube. Yeah.

He wrote, so we was at a hotel or something. We left, you know, the hotel paper that's next to your bed. He gave me a copy of an album or something like that. He signed the album or some shit, but he put in there that he wrote next to it. And it said, we've been in the same place, in the same city, in the same hotel now. Something like that. More than once. I have to.

I just want to say something. I have to meet you. I have to, I just want to say something, I have to meet you, I'm a huge fan, blah, blah, blah, and he was like, this is, like, basically left that center, I didn't meet you again this time,

but after meeting you, I was like, who is this from again, when they show me, I was like, you gotta be fucking kidding. Bono. Yeah,

I was like, that man don't know who the fuck I am. I was like, that man don't know who the fuck, that man don't know I exist.

That was a, it was nothing going on for him to, you know, it wasn't nothing like I exist. It was nothing going on for him. It wasn't nothing like some big Lil Wayne tour. Still not? No, he literally just left that on the hotel for me to get it. He must have heard that I was going to be there. Wow.

And he left that shit on the hotel paper. Yeah, that's crazy, man. Let's make some noise for that guy down there. You know, I could go on for 15 hours, but let me just be clear. You're dropping a new album at a funeral? Yeah. That means everybody's dying? They're dead already. I'm in.

Just tell me what I got to do. Are tux? What am I going to do at the funeral? What? Regular shit? Can I come with a sweatsuit? I'm a sweatsuit nigga. Yeah, you got a sweatsuit.

But if you want me to dress up, I'll dress up. How am I going to the funeral? The funeral is just, you know, it's just, we just playing off all these,

you know, playing off all this shit like we always do. Playing off all this shit I've already dropped. I've already dropped Rebirth. So we're going to the funeral.

You know, we'll figure out what we got next after that. But I always have something behind it, you know. You know, Eminem dropped some shit,

Murder by the Numbers, last week. Um. So now, funeral, y'all niggas is on the same path. Y'all crazy, crazy lyrical, crazy biblical. So what can we expect from the funeral, though? Oh, man, don't even... It's not a compilation. No.

This is a Wayne album? This is my album, yeah. This album. Don't have no expectations, please, because I will definitely exceed every single one So don't just just listen to it and open-minded any features. Yeah, I have some features I think the features that I chose this time would be Definitely chose people features that you wouldn't expect by nose on it Yeah, we got one in the stash done good Bono yeah

That's hard. That must be this. Why is Al Yuba ever sore? We got one. I don't know. For real, I actually. Not yet, but you got it. I'm going to keep it real, for real. I forgot.

There ain't no regulations for us not putting it on the funeral. For real? I was thinking, I'm going to do this. I may have the homie on the funeral. For real? I was there. I was doing it. I may have the homie on the funeral. One time for that. Just so you know, you know,

I was like one of the first niggas saying slime. So I don't know if you know that. I know you know that. Yeah, I do know that. But the new name for slime is yanday.

Yanday. Because, you know, the yanday is a noun. You could be at the yanday, you could be slime is yonday. Yonday. Because, you know, the yonday is a noun. You could be at the yonday, you could be doing the yonday, or you could be going to the yonday. You figure, smell that? That's the new slime, yonday. Gotcha, yonday.

Yonday, you know what I'm saying? Because now when people say slime, does that only mean gang? No. Because, please, we've got to stop that. I don't think so no cause but do you think that that happened

like when people cause we said slime bottle said slime then you guys said slime yeah I got it from I got it from

uh y'all boys yeah it was your fault but then they guys got it from you and with that said I had

I didn't I knew y'all had there was no gang intentions there was no gang intentions in that at all. There was no gang intentions in all shit. And Cam and them said it, like he literally couldn't

say a sentence without it. You know what I mean? So that's why I really, once I, he just sliming all day. So it's hard to, you know, you know,

Al's about to slime me all day, Paul. So I'm just fucking sliming, sliming it is. Pick them niggas up. Pick up the Jewels. Pick up the Cam.

Pick up the Jim Jones. Pick up to all your crew. You know, everybody from Young Money, man. I want to pick up for y'all for always showing me love. Now, I got to say, I got to ask this before we get up out of here. Young Thug, was there ever, like ever like was it you think there was a misunderstanding in y'all thing because i don't i don't think i think that at the time where he i think it was like he named his barter what was it barter thank you name one of his albums like that

i look at it as just total respect and you know my mom always told me you know if they ain't talking about you you ain't you know if they not if they ain't talking about you, if you ain't talking about me, you ain't doing something right. Right. So, shit, I didn't look at it. And also, there was no dissing on there. He didn't diss me at all, so I looked at it with all respect. Also, when I see the homie. You saw him before?

A few times. Oh, okay, that's the part people don't know. Yeah, when we talk personally, he's always, he have nothing but the same, same Yeah, number of respect for me Before you say one word to me the first thing always let me know is how much you respect me and shit How much you know me how much you is a fan of my shit and shit? Yeah, I've had personal conversations with the home before that's beautiful Yeah, I don't want to give I'm gonna give up too many features, but you may be on that too. God damn, man. Make some fucking noise while I'm breaking this news.

Yo, Wayne, let me just tell you something, man. I really appreciate this. The reason why I appreciate this is because you're a real big figure. You're a really big figure. And it sets a precedent when you said you got an album coming out, Funeral, on January 31st, correct? And you come to see black media, you know what I'm saying?

Because that's what we, quote unquote, is right now. You know what I mean? But we hood media and we hip hop media. You know what I'm saying? And the thing is, when you come see us, it's such a blessing. It's such a presence that, you know such a it's such a such a president's that you know what we can control our own shit we don't have to go outside you know big up to Ellen and big up to you know Trevor Noah and all of them you

know we're great great great to see these guys but when you come to drink champs first it's just a precedence and guess what no no no let me just say this I'm gonna tell you off the camera let me just tell Thank you so much. Thank you. Good job. Yo, for real, no, no, no. Let me just say this. I'm going to tell you off the camera. Let me just tell you on camera. For real, man, you're one of the biggest artists in hip-hop. You have changed the music not once, but twice, but three different times.

You have survived, and you're going on, damn near, four decades. You will survive that, and you will be here, and you will be our generation, Michael Jackson in the gangster way, you know what I'm saying? The gangster way and not the other shit. The real shit, the greatest shit. But that's the biggest compliment and I've really looked at everybody's history. I really did.

I really compared you to every other ghost and the fact that how early you started to how you keep progressing, you might be the richest, and I'm talking about money, but the richest person in hip-hop history as far as you've been winning since then and you kept going and kept elevating the thing. And if anybody should say how they should market their career,

how you did, I would want them to do it after you, my brother. And that's just a person that has been to it. I am Charles Barkley. I've been to it. I am Charles Barkley. I've been in there. I am Shaquille. Let me say Shaquille O'Neal because I went platinum. Charles Barkley, I don't got a ring.

That's my nigga, though. That's my nigga, though. All right, that's my nigga, though. I love Charles. I love Charles. But, you know, I'm Kenny Smith, too. I'm from Left Frack City. You know what I'm saying?

I got rings. You know what I'm saying? I'm Vince Carter in my fourth decade. You got rings, nigga. You got rings. You got rings. Let me tell you something. I am proud to call you a colleague. That's Carter in my fourth decade. You got rings, nigga. You got rings. You got rings. Let me tell you something.

I am proud to call you a colleague. I'm proud to call you a friend. And I'm proud to call you one of the greatest rappers alive. Thank you, man. I'm proud to say that to your face. You see, I ain't break no tear. I'm proud to say that. You know what I mean? And the fact is, I was one of the very first, especially for my city. And I'm going to pick up Kormega, too. Kormega was in there somewhere. Yes, he was. You know what I'm proud to say that. You know what I mean? And the fact is I was one of the very first, especially for my city.

And I'm going to pick up Cormega too. Cormega was in there somewhere. Yes, he was. You know what I'm saying? I will not take that from you, Cormega. You're my brother.

You know that. But I take the pride a little bit more. You know what I'm saying? Because, you know, but I really respect your career. I really respect what you did. And I will always drink champs. Not

only just Nori, but drink champs. We will always honor it. Whether you come here or not, we will always big you up and we will always tell you how much you mean to this culture because you have changed it so many different times and right now you are the godfather of your culture and you got to take

responsibility of that. You got to start learning who this new guy is and start knowing so when you see them you can't be like they'll be like you're little wayne but yeah like what up you gotta be like what's up little exit i know you little exit come here you gotta start knowing them this is my man i know mac main is probably like but wayne you deserve everything you get. We deserve what you love. Funeral, we're going to make it go number one because we already know.

Man, yo, we really love you, Wayne. We're going to take a drop. I mean, everything I say, man. I mean, everything I say, man. You're my brother. Thanks for joining us for another episode of drink champs hosted by yours truly dj efn and nore please make sure to follow us on all our socials that's at drink champs across all platforms at the real noriega on ig at noriega on twitter mine is at who's crazy on ig

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