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  • Warren G to appear on Lil Wayne’s ‘Tha Carter VI’

    Warren G to appear on Lil Wayne’s ‘Tha Carter VI’

    Warren says record with Weezy is on the way

    Warren G reveals his involvement in Lil Wayne’s upcoming album, the 6th installment of the Tha Carter series, calling the song ‘vicious.’ Stopping by DJ Hed and Gina Views’ Sirius XM show Effective Immediately on Thursday (October 31), the West Coast rapper let it slip that the collaboration was done.

    “I got a record called ‘All Alone’ with Lil Wayne,” he said. “It’s gonna be on Tha Carter VI. They was like, ‘We need this, Warren. Let us go on and get that.’ I was like, ‘Aight, that’s cool.’ It’s me and him on there. That muthafucka’s so vicious. When they hear that, they gon’ be like, ‘Wow!’”

    He added, “I hit him on the DM and said, ‘I got an open verse. Can you get down?’ It took him a while. He had hit me like, ‘Whatever you want Warren! Send the track to me.’ So I shot it to him. This is a banger. It was gon’ be my record because he did the verse for me but then when he heard it, he and [his manager] Fabian were like, ‘Can we have it for Tha Carter VI?’”

  • LL Cool J offers Lil Wayne some advice following Super Bowl Halftime performance snub

    LL Cool J offers Lil Wayne some advice following Super Bowl Halftime performance snub

    LL urges Weezy to wait for his time

    LL Cool J offers some consolation to Lil Wayne after repeatedly lamenting about the Super Bowl Halftime performance snub that saw Kendrick Lamar selected to headline the show instead.

    Recently speaking to Fat Joe on his new talk show on STARZ, LL said: “Lil Wayne is one of the most talented dudes on the planet, period. He’s one of our great artists, he’s an unbelievable writer,” he explained. “He’ll have his day — let Kendrick get that. Let’s keep it moving. I never did the Super Bowl!”

    He added: “Wayne comes from a very proud state, Louisiana, and a very proud city, New Orleans. But this is the thing: your time will come, you’ll have your day […] You can’t let that break you.

    “The only reason it makes me laugh is because I know how blessed he is, I know how successful he is. So he don’t need to worry about that moment. It’s just a moment, bro. It’s just one moment. It happens.

    “Let me put it into perspective: I’m in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I got not put in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame it felt like 999,000 times before I got in. It didn’t break me. I didn’t even make a comment. As a matter of fact, I laughed.”

  • Lil Wayne awarded key to New Orleans by city’s Mayor

    Lil Wayne awarded key to New Orleans by city’s Mayor

    Weezy was touched by the honors

    Lil Wayne was overwhelmed with emotions while receiving the praises of Master P and Mayor LaToya Cantrell of New Orleans. Cantrell awarded Wayne with the key to his home city during his performance at the LilWeezyAna Festival on Saturday (November 2).

    Wayne seemed touched as the mayor thanked him for all his contribution to the city over the years.

    Then Master P went ahead to call out that the city will be having its own Walk of Fame, and Lil Wayne will be among the first inductees. The No Limit Records boss also gave Wayne a handmade plaque with a fleur-de-lis symbol which will be official on Canal street by next February.

    Also proclaimed by the law, it became recognized that 6 and 7 of February are ‘Lil Wayne Day’ in the city of New Orleans.

  • Lil Wayne still working on ‘Tha Carter VI’ – ‘I just haven’t finished’

    Lil Wayne still working on ‘Tha Carter VI’ – ‘I just haven’t finished’

    Weezy shares update on upcoming album

    Lil Wayne is still in the studio crafting his forthcoming album, Tha Carter VI. In a clip recently shared on Instagram, Tunechi explained that he still has some work to do on the long-awaited project.

    “I’m in the studio as usual,” Weezy began. “Just finished working on a couple features. I would tell y’all who it is, but you know I wouldn’t do that. It’d fuck it up. So shoutout to those artists.”

    “And I’m working on [Tha] Carter VI, I just want you to know that,” he added. “I just haven’t finished.”

  • Lil Wayne admits Super Bowl Halftime Show snub ‘hurt a lot’

    Lil Wayne admits Super Bowl Halftime Show snub ‘hurt a lot’

    Weezy says he wasn’t prepared for missing out on Super Bowl Halftime gig

    Lil Wayne shares his fans’ disappointment after NFL chose Kendrick Lamar over him for next year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show performance. In a clip that surfaced on Instagram, Tunechi thanked his supporters for standing behind him following the snub.

    “That hurt. It hurt a lot. You know what I’m talking about. It hurt a whole lot,” Wayne explained. “I blame myself for not being mentally prepared for a letdown, and for automatically mentally putting myself in that position like somebody told me that was my position. So I blame myself for that.

    “But I thought that was nothing better than that spot and that stage and that platform in my city, so it hurt. It hurt a whole lot. But y’all are fucking amazing. It made me feel like shit not getting this opportunity and when I felt like shit, you guys reminded me that I ain’t shit without y’all… and that’s an amazing reality.”

  • Drake praises Lil Wayne’s leadership skills after old Young Money interview resurfaces

    Drake praises Lil Wayne’s leadership skills after old Young Money interview resurfaces

    Drizzy has always admired Weezy’s managerial capabilities

    Drake always has great words to share about his mentor and boss Lil Wayne. The Toronto rapper recently upheld his feelings for Tunechi after a 2009 interview of the Young Money honcho presenting his artists to the masses surfaced on social media.

    “We were so lucky to have the most supportive boss in the game always gassed us up,” Drizzy commented under the post.

    Journalist Jayson Rodriguez, who undertook the interview, shared more details about the clip, commenting: “This was my interview I did. During MTVu spring break in Panama City beach. I had to do a lot of work to round all of YM together on Wayne’s bus. Got them tho. Then afterward I interviewed Drake 1:1 in the lobby for his first US TV interview. Was quite an era.”

  • Lil Wayne’s early lyric notebook on sale for $5M

    Lil Wayne’s early lyric notebook on sale for $5M

    The notebook caused legal battle between Weezy & a memorabilia website

    Lil Wayne’s handwritten lyric notebook from his Hot Boys days in the late ‘90’s is up for sale for a whooping $5m. Per TMZ, memorabilia site Moments in Time is listing the notebook after a five-year battle with Weezy.

    The site first listed the handwritten notebook in 2019 after acquiring it from an individual who claimed to have found it in a car that was once in Hot Boys’ possession. However, Tunechi filed a cease & desist and demanded that the book be handed back to him.

    Moments in Time emerged victorious in February after Judge Kern A. Reese of the Civil District Court of Orleans Parish in Louisiana ruled that the platform did have rights to sell the book.

  • Lil Wayne includes Drake in his Top 5 rappers list, snubs Kendrick Lamar

    Lil Wayne includes Drake in his Top 5 rappers list, snubs Kendrick Lamar

    Weezy views Drizzy as one of the greats

    Lil Wayne has always recognized the monstrous talent in Drake since signing him in the late 2000s. Although many believe the Toronto rapper lost in his recent clash with Kendrick Lamar, Weezy still believes he’s one of top five rappers of all time, while Dot is not.

    “My Top 5 rappers of all time are JAY-Z, Missy Elliott, Eminem, ummm… The Notorious B.I.G. — oh, and this is no specific order right here — and Drizzy,” Tunechi said in a recent interview.

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