The countdown to Tha Carter V continues as Lil’ Wayne cover’s XXL’s August/September issue with a ‘grillem’ expression. Guess he still has no worries, but one thing he’s confident on, is his music and his team. Check out a few quotes below from the issue that’s in stores now.
On Tha Carter V: “I was feeling the success of Tha Carter I. I felt like people wanted to hear me. I was amped to do that, but then Tha Carter III? I don’t know what happened. It was amazing. And then Tha Carter IV was just unexplainable, and now this one here, there’s no words. I just hope everyone likes it. I’m always feeling like I ain’t done sh*t. I’m still nervous about Tha Carter V… I’m confident about what I do, but I’m still nervous about what people think.”
On Hip-Hop: “I know I’m authentic because I’m 35 million years in the game. I don’t know where the authenticity is in the game anymore. Today everyone sounds alike, they looking alike, they acting alike, they dressing alike. I came out when everybody was super different. You had an ODB. You had a Busta Rhymes and then you had a 2Pac. You had a Biggie. And everybody was different. Biggie was talking about Mob and Mafia sh*t. 2Pac was wylin’, talking about West Coast this and that. You had n*ggas like Meth and Red talking about how high they got and making people laugh. And then now, you got them, them. You got the categories and then everyone falls under it.”
On Drake & Nicki: “Call me old-fashioned and country, but with Drake, that was the first time I’d seen someone that knew how to sing and rap. That’s all it was. I didn’t know nobody who knew how to do that. You had those old school singing niggas, where people would do a little eight-bar verse on their songs. But [Drake] was spitting and singing and killing that too. It took a while though. 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.’”
“I wanted a female. Every team needs a female to rep your gang. She was annihilating n*ggas. I mean males. I was like, ‘I have to beef my sh*t up on that muthaf*cka.’ She just knocked it out the park from day one. She’s just Nicki. I don’t know whose idea it was, but it was a good idea.”
Amanda Barona (@ThatDancer)
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