Every team needs a female to rep your gang. It wasn’t until I heard him spitting on one of my beats when I was like, ‘This fool’s retarded.’ When I hear something that I know I can’t do better? That’s when I’m like, ‘They need to be on the team.’ But was spitting and singing and killing that too. You had those old school singing niggas, where people would do a little eight-bar verse on their songs.
I didn’t know nobody who knew how to do that. He wasn’t afraid of how he sounded because he knew what he was saying and how he was saying it would always sound good.Ĭall me old-fashioned and country, but with Drake, that was the first time I’d seen someone that knew how to sing and rap. He was doing it because he could make it sound good and exceptional. It was like if he was playing with a baby. It was the way he pronounced words and the way he used his voice. On Prince being a huge musical influence: I’m still nervous about ‘Tha Carter V’… I’m confident about what I do, but I’m still nervous about what people think. I’m always feeling like I ain’t done shit. And then ‘Tha Carter IV’ was just unexplainable, and now this one here, there’s no words. I was amped to do that, but then ‘Tha Carter III’? I don’t know what happened. I was feeling the success of ‘Tha Carter I.’ I felt like people wanted to hear me.
You got the categories and then everyone falls under it.Ĭheck out more quotes from Wayne, plus pictures from his cover shoot below… You had niggas like Meth and Red talking about how high they got and making people laugh. 2Pac was wylin’, talking about West Coast this and that. Biggie was talking about Mob and Mafia shit. You had a Busta Rhymes and then you had a 2Pac. I came out when everybody was super different. Today everyone sounds alike, they looking alike, they acting alike, they dressing alike. I don’t know where the authenticity is in the game anymore. I know I’m authentic because I’m 35 million years in the game. Yep, Weezy’s got a few things to get off his chest. In Jeff Weiss‘ cover story, the seasoned YMCMB soldier opens up about his forthcoming album, signing Drake and Nicki Minaj, and the lack of authenticity in hip-hop today. Lil Wayne tour kicking off in just over a week, and not to mention his massively awaited Tha Carter V LP on the horizon, Lil Wayne graces the cover of XXL‘s August/September issue.