Lil Wayne was recently out in the Big Apple with the New York Times to promote his jail memoir, Gone ’Til November but that wasn’t the biggest takeaway from his interview.
Like most established rappers, his opinion regarding the new generation of Hip Hop talent is doing the culture justice is highly valued yet no one, not even writer Joe Coscarelli, could have been prepared for his response after being questioned about a chunk of the so-called mumble rappers of today.
When asked about whether or not the likes of Lil Yachty, Lil Uzi Vert, 21 Savage and Kodak Black were “motivating” him to stay on his toes, Wayne replied, “I swear to God I didn’t know you were saying people’s names just now, so that should probably answer that question. I just do my own thing.”
Burn.
Wayne’s answer was particularly savage seeing that he just appeared on the 2016 BET Hip Hop Awards where three of the four rap upstarts also appeared on the televised event. (Black is currently accumulating #FreeKodak hashtags in a Florida jail cell.) Which means either Weezy didn’t even bother tuning into the 10th annual awards extravaganza or he totally blacked out when the much talked about artists hit the stage. For what it’s worth, he also claimed not to know who Donald Trump is even after admitting to binging on Celebrity Apprentice while incarcerated in 2010.
Who?: Lil Uzi Vert and 21 Savage get it in at the 2016 BET Hip Hop Awards.
Despite being the undeniable highlight, Wayne’s commentary about his fellow “Lil’s” didn’t complete his conversation. There has been much speculation as to who was holding his Carter V album hostage, with Tunechi nearing the one-year anniversary for his verbal and legal “fuck Cash Money” campaign while Birdman recently told the world he didn’t even possess a copy of the album.
Wayne somewhat validated his estranged surrogate father’s claims by revealing that he broke out the long-delayed after a long stretch and its contents were completely foreign to him.
“It’s done, sitting and wrapped as is,” he admitted. “I just listened to it for the first time in months the other day. I had forgotten every single word on it, because I work every day. I popped it in, and I was like, it’s still so much better than everything I’ve ever heard. Not what’s going on right now — everything I’ve ever heard.”
While C5 probably needs an update, Wayne’s opinions, no matter how controversial, are still intact. During a September 2016 visit to Skip Bayless’ new FOX Sports show, Undisputed, the 34-year-old Dwyane Carter was adamant in expressing how he didn’t feel like racism actually existed — a belief he doubled down on to the Associated Press for it was a white police officer who the one who cared the most when he infamously shot himself in the chest at 12-years-old.
“Yeah, he was a cop, and my life was saved by a white man. I don’t know what racism is. I know a good (expletive) named Uncle Bob, though.” he recalled. “He was white as snow. Them (expletive) that hopped over me were blacker than me. (He) stood there and waited until the doctor said ‘He’s gonna make it.'”
Maybe Uncle Bob also knows who Lil Yachty is? Just a thought.
That is something you say when you embarrassed that you actually know them. Like I pretend not to know Justin Bieber or One Direction.
Oddly enough I’ve not heard of lil Wayne since Carter 3…
Lil wayne always sucked, so who cares?
he probably doesnt know who any of those guys are. i sure as fuck have never heard of any of them. im sure its just the lattest music that 16 year olds are listening too.
as far as him lying on espn about never experience racism first hand, i actually applaud that. its a very power message. even though its bullshit, there will be tons of people that believe him and start to continue the trend into the future.
I only hear of them on this piss weak site.
Wayne denying his kids lol
Ooh, that’s gotta hurt for the four of them, because I’m sure they all look up to Wayne.
That’s cause all them niggas is straight trash along with Wayne’s garbage ass. All these lame ass in the closet ass rappers are a spin off of Wayne.
Thank you Rudy,
Wayne had a stretch after Carter 2 when he was killing the game. Then all of a sudden he became lazy and started that “mumble rap” which these young kids thought was cool. Rap is talking with melody, but it has to be coherent.
if you’ve listened to Wayne’s features this year yo cant call him trash. Listen to his intro on dj drama street quality music 2. then listen to his feature on solange’s album called “mad”. Then talk to me about Lil wayne
Anybody that supports uzi vert and the rest of these black imbeciles is supporting the death of Hip Hop. We need to rename this shit to something else so people dont confuse Hip Hop and Rap with this imbecile Bullshit non-English music.
I bet they make music way better than you could.
HE DOESNT KNOW DOLAND TRUMP? WHAT A COP OUT HE IS PROLLY VOTING FOR HIM ON SOME DUMB SHIIIIT. ALSO IS THAT A DISS TO THESE RAPPERS OR WHAT BECAUSE HE FUR SURE KNOWS THEM.
No shit it’s a fucking diss, you dumbass. Do you want us to keep spoon feeding you??……idiot.
Well said they are all terrible, but black people like ignorant shit these days. They play all this dumb shit at trip clubs where us black people waste out money. SMH. One step up and 20 steps back.
Wayne killing them. Mumble rap. Hah!