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Lil Wayne has given us a number of the finest verses in rap historical past and in addition a number of the most bewildering interviews, reactions and quotes the style has ever seen. Whether or not he’s forgetting that Ye and JAY-Z as soon as made a whole album collectively or unable to inform his Tha Carter installments aside, the New Orleans legend has spent a long time proving that nobody — not even the “A Milli” hitmaker himself — absolutely understands the thoughts of Lil Wayne. It’s a part of what makes him so iconic and, fairly frankly, such an entertaining artist to maintain up with.
Retaining that in thoughts, Rap-Up rounded up 11 occasions Lil Wayne left us questioning issues a bit. Have a look under.
1. “I Don’t Know Tha Carter III, Tha Carter II, Tha Carter I From Tha Carter IV”
Think about forgetting a number of the biggest albums in rap historical past, particularly after they’re yours. In 2023, whereas celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of Tha Carter III, Lil Wayne brazenly admitted to Rolling Stone that he remembers subsequent to nothing concerning the collection’ early installments. “You could possibly lie, you may ask me [about] such and such music, I wouldn’t even know what [we’re] speaking about. So, it holds no significance to me in any respect,” he advised the publication. To his credit score, he’s usually talked about that he doesn’t write his rhymes down, so possibly he simply used that mind area for one thing else.
2. Response To Black Lives Matter Motion: “What Is It?”
In a 2016 interview with ABC Information’ Linsey Davis on “Nightline,” he genuinely appeared baffled by the idea of Black Lives Matter. “What’s it? What do you imply?” the artist requested, later saying, “I do not really feel related to a rattling factor that ain’t acquired nothin’ to do with me. Should you do, you loopy as s**t.” Though Lil Wayne later issued an apology, blaming his irritation on the interviewer’s earlier questions on his daughter, it’s positively one in every of his most uncomfortable and unlucky slipups.
3. Being Confused About Who Reginae Carter Was Calling “Daddy”
Listening to your daughter confer with another person as “daddy” is just about each father’s nightmare, together with the Younger Cash Leisure founder’s. Throughout their journey to Toronto, Reginae Carter requested him to inform her followers how a lot he cherished her. “Daddy, one second, simply say how a lot you like me,” she mentioned. Lil Wayne’s face hilariously dropped earlier than he replied, “Oh, I believed you had been speaking about some n**ga for a second.”
4. Not Remembering His Personal Bars On “Lolllipop”
“I mentioned that?!” was Lil Wayne’s response to listening to Fox Sports activities host Darnell Smith recite his favourite verse from the “Lollipop” remix: “Secure intercourse is nice intercourse, higher put on a latex / ‘Trigger you don’t need that late textual content, that ‘I feel I’m late’ textual content.” Genuinely amused, the rap veteran admitted, “I don’t know after I mentioned it, or why I mentioned it, or the place I mentioned it, however I mentioned it.”
5. Not Understanding Ye And JAY-Z Made ‘Watch The Throne’
By some means, the “She Will” rapper, who’s collaborated extensively with each Ye and JAY-Z, had completely no concept the pair launched a whole joint challenge, Watch The Throne. “They did an album?” he reacted to discovering out. Even funnier is the truth that the 2011 effort’s “H·A·M” set off years of Weezy and Hov tossing again disses on tracks like “It’s Good” and “La Familia.”
6. Considering 21 Savage Was A Group
Should you’re nonetheless doubting that Lil Wayne operates in his personal world, look no additional than him infamously mistaking 21 Savage for a gaggle of 21 rappers. Throughout an interview with “Drink Champs,” he recalled the “Financial institution Account” rapper getting irritated as a result of he thought Lil Wayne was “making an attempt to be humorous.”
“Once they requested me [about him], I mentioned, ‘They acquired 21 f**king lil rappers in a single group?’ I used to be so critical,” the chart-topping artist recalled. “I used to be like, ‘Man, that is like a brand new Wu-Tang, proper?” It’s additionally value mentioning that, in that very same sit-down, Lil Wayne confused High Dawg Leisure — the legendary label behind Kendrick Lamar and SZA — for an individual.
7. Being Satisfied Racism Was “Over”
Typically the Grammy Award winner may be higher off simply saying nothing — like when he advised Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe on “Undisputed” that he thought racism was mainly over. “I must say, not solely did I [think] it was over, I nonetheless imagine it’s over, however clearly it isn’t,” he defined earlier than scrambling for the best phrases to say. He later referenced being saved by a white police officer after trying suicide, which explains his perspective, however doesn’t precisely clear up why he phrased it that method.
8. Not Understanding “Not Like Us” Was A Drake Diss
Lamar’s Not Like Us” — which, relying in your perspective, both luckily or sadly laid Drake to relaxation lyrically — delivered some brutal bars aimed on the OVO Sound head. That made it all of the extra stunning when Lil Wayne began rapping alongside to it in a Las Vegas membership earlier than segueing into “The Motto,” his joint effort with Drake. Although the second sparked hypothesis into whose facet he was taking, he later confessed within the aforementioned interview with Rolling Stone, “[I] didn’t even understand it was Kendrick!”
Possibly he genuinely missed the traces “Say, Drake, I hear you want ’em younger” or “Licensed Lover Boy? Licensed pedophiles,” however that appears onerous to imagine. Nonetheless, to Lil Wayne’s credit score, he acquired the lyrics mistaken (“They don’t like us”), so we’ll let this one slide.
9. “Gucci Who? Gucci Mane?”
Truthfully, many people would’ve had the identical response if Gucci Mane was ranked above Eminem. Throughout a sit-down with Tim Westwood, Lil Wayne reacted to MTV’s Hottest MCs in The Sport checklist and understandably could not conceal his disbelief. The artist was high-quality with JAY-Z and Drake making the minimize, however Gucci Mane touchdown within the High 5 left him momentarily shocked. “Gucci who? Gucci Mane?” he requested earlier than doubling down: “…was on the checklist and Eminem wasn’t on the checklist?” Clearly, he rapidly course-corrected (probably dodging beef within the course of, too) with, “Shout out my n**ga Gucci.”
10. Considering “Wheezy Outta Right here” Was Future Shouting Him Out
You’ve got most likely heard producer Wheezy’s “Wheezy outta right here” tag numerous occasions on hits like Lil Child’s “Sure Certainly,” Meek Mill’s “Going Unhealthy” and Gunna’s “pushin P,” however Lil Wayne spent a very long time genuinely believing Future was shouting him out. “I needed to ask Mack [Maine], ‘Why that n**ga Future preserve shouting me out on folks’s songs and so they ain’t even speaking about me on the music?’” he admitted to Younger Cash Radio.
11. “Weezy F. Child, And The F Is For Phenomenal”
One other iconic gem from The Weblog Period, Lil Wayne and Pharrell joined forces for 2009’s “Sure.” Every part was going nice till the Younger Cash rapper mistakenly thought “phenomenal” began with an “F.” It was a mistake that not solely led him to desirous to take away the road but in addition scrap the complete mixtape that it was hosted on. Seems the “F” was actually for “f**ok up.”
“He would possibly misspell one thing on objective for lyrical train and wordplay, however he’s actually exact about his wordplay,” Lil Wayne’s former longtime supervisor, Cortez Bryant, defined on “Faux Shore Drive.” He added, “He was actually down, pissed, [and like], ‘F**ok the entire mixtape’ simply due to that one rattling line.”