Lil Wayne has long been a fan of JAY-Z. Weezy recently chopped it up with one of his favorite rappers today, Lil Baby, for Rolling Stone‘s Musicians on Musicians series.
The two traded stories about albums that had a huge impact on their early lives and Weezy thought back to his teenage days as a rapper on the rise listening to 1999’s Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter for the first time.
“JAY-Z, Life and Times of Shawn Carter, plain and simple,” Wayne answered when asked about his favorite album. “It was the first album where I actually [bought] the car that the rapper was talking about. That was my album.”
The Young Money boss actually ended up getting Vol. 3 lyrics tattooed on him and has freestyled over album hits such as “Big Pimpin” in the past.
“Also, Jay talked so crazy,” he continued. “He went bananas on that album. I got lyrics from the album tattooed on me and shit. I have songs that are remakes of spinoffs of songs from that album.”
From “Hello Brooklyn 2.0” to Tha Carter III‘s “Mr. Carter” and T.I.’s “Swagga Like Us” posse cut, the Brooklyn legend and Weezy have collaborated on multiple occasions throughout their decorated careers.
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Meanwhile, Wayne is spending Thanksgiving week giving back to the community. The 38-year-old hosted Tunechi’s Turkey Give-A-Way on Tuesday (November 24), which donated 500 turkeys to families around his hometown of New Orleans.
Revisit JAY-Z’s Vol. 3 below.
you’re done Wayne trying to stay in the headlines… only uneducated whites will accept this clown now, you lost…Wayne
Agree 100%! This dude is definitely a clown. I have lost all respect for this dude. Lil Wayne sounds just like the way he looks!!! Trash!!!!
Lil Wayne states the same thing over and over again. We all know that you love Jay Z. Okay, we get it! Another thing, right now Jay Z is trash! Dude is Pop music all day long. Jay sold his soul longtime ago. Not knocking his money game though but musically complete trash.
ridin dirty like 10 times harder along with hundreds of other records
way to support the south the cats that raised u smh
to each they own
memba berry theres videos of jay z ridin around bumping UGK4Life
not the otherway around
Classic album. Jay z is one of the few if not only rappers who flex talk is straight facts. People will hate but what they don’t understand is Jay z is showing how to evolve in this game. As he grew his music grew..that’s why Genres like country has straight legends..these dudes started out young and music matured as they matured.
i dont wanna say that vol 3 is Hov’s ‘worst album ever’ or that its in his top 5, cauz its not… its even worse than [that]… shit was is & willl always be empty af dont get me wrong here; ofc Hov has had classics under his belt, jus saiyan [that] v3 wasnt 1 of them, is all…
Yep. Felt the same way. It was a very forgettable album.
When that album dropped, I was ready to stop fucking with Jay heavy. That and the Dynasty album were a step down in his progression to me. Then, The Blueprint put him back on my must listen list.
Whoever thinks this album is trash is crazy, The Intro, So Ghetto, Do It Again, Dope Man, It’s Hot, Snoopy Track, Is That Your Bitch, Come And Get Me, NYMP. It wasn’t a classic but it was solid. There was some filler on there but it wasn’t the worst album.
YEAH ITS REVISIONIST HISTORY. ANYONE THAT LIVED WITH THIS ALBUM AT THE END OF 99 KNOWS THIS SHIT WAS KNOCKING AND PLAYING EVERYWHERE.