Lil Wayne & Young Thug Prove It's Family First On New Wheezy-Produced Song 'Bless'

Lil Wayne, Young Thug and Wheezy have teamed up for a new single called “Bless.”

On the track, released on Friday (April 5), Weezy and Thugger let it be known that it’s family over everything, while the hook includes a shoutout to luxury watchmaker Audemars Pigeut.

The duo handle the chorus together, with Thug singing: “Family the only thing I love/ Half a million ’cause my AP gold, gold, gold.”

Check out the song below.

“Bless” marks the first single from Lil Wayne and Wheezy’s upcoming joint project Weezy Vs. Wheezy, which doesn’t yet have a release date.

It also marks Wayne and Thug’s third collaboration following 2014’s “Take Care” and “Out West,” from the former’s 2020 project No Ceilings 3.

Though the pair’s latest effort suggests they’re on good terms, that hasn’t always been the case.

Young Thug and Lil Wayne’s rocky friendship took a dive soon after Thug named his 2015 mixtape Carter 6, before he ultimately changed it to Barter 6.

Wayne didn’t take kindly to the move, saying during a concert days after the project’s release: “If there were any other albums that dropped recently, tell ‘em I said, ‘Suck my dick.”

He added: “Carter V coming soon. Ain’t no muthafuckin’ such thing as Carter 6. And anytime y’all book them bitch ass n-ggas to come up in this muthafucka, before they say one word, tell them, ‘Tunechi said, ‘Suck my dick.'”

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Things escalated shortly after, with Weezy’s tour bus being shot up in Atlanta.

The alleged gunman, Jimmy “Peewee Roscoe” Winfrey, reportedly had ties to Thug’s YSL collective, while Thug himself was named as co-conspirator in the original indictment alongside Birdman. Neither men were ever charged, however.

In a 2020 interview with Million Dollaz Worth of Game, Young Thug reflected on his relationship with Lil Wayne and claimed the rap legend didn’t even dap him up the first time they met.

“I got that n-gga name tattooed,” he said. “This n-gga’s name tattooed, it’s gang. He knew [I was a fan], for sure. I’m honest. I’m just a real person. I don’t know how to be in a room and be fake.”

He continued: “Man, that n-gga gotdamn … the first day he didn’t dap me up. Tried me. Now my feet hurt and I’ma real stepper. Left the pimpin’ hanging. One time I dapped him up (and gave me weak dap).

“I’m like, ‘Hey listen bruh, I’m never touching your hand again.’ Just off of that. I’m a player, I’m a real player and I don’t give no fuck. Nothing about me is a groupie, no nothing! You inspired me.”