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Apparently, Lil Wayne has by no means listened to Watch The Throne, Ye and JAY-Z’s joint album that introduced us hits like “No Church In The Wild,” “N**fuel In Paris” and “Otis.” Throughout his cowl story with Rolling Stone on Thursday (April 17), the New Orleans rapper confessed — reasonably matter-of-factly — that he wasn’t conscious the 2 artists put out a complete mission collectively.
“What’s that?” Lil Wayne requested the publication’s Andre Gee when he introduced up the collaborative effort. After he clarified, “Kanye and JAY-Z’s album,” the “Lollipop” hitmaker replied, “They did an album?” The 2 reportedly spent the subsequent 5 minutes combing by means of the aforementioned tracks.
That being stated, who is aware of whether or not they received round to “H·A·M,” the track by which Hov seemingly dissed Birdman, just for Lil Wayne himself to famously hearth again on 2011’s “It’s Good.”
Lil Wayne And JAY-Z Have Traded Jabs Earlier than
“I am like, ‘Actually, half a billi,’ n**ga, actually?’ You bought child cash / Hold it actual with n**fuel, n**fuel ain’t received my woman cash,” JAY-Z rapped on the time. Not lengthy after, on the Tha Carter IV minimize, Lil Wayne shot again: “Talkin ’bout child cash? I received your child cash / Kidnap your b**ch, get that ‘how-much-you-love-your-lady’ cash / I do know you faux, n**ga, press your brakes, n**ga.”
The Brooklyn native downplayed all of it later that yr, telling MTV the change was purely “sport” and “that’s rap.” Two years later, nevertheless, he took one other jab on the Timbaland-produced “La Familia.” JAY-Z spat, “N**fuel wanna kidnap wifey / Good luck with that, bruh / You could gon’ disguise your entire household.”
In Lil Wayne’s protection, he did not recall a lot about his personal Tha Carter sequence again when he celebrated the third installment’s fifteenth anniversary in 2023. That doesn’t utterly let him off the hook for blanking on Hip Hop historical past — one thing rap followers would undoubtedly name out any new artist for — however perhaps, simply perhaps, after practically 14 years, he genuinely would not bear in mind.
In case you, like Lil Wayne, haven’t heard of Watch The Throne earlier than 2025, take a pay attention beneath.