Lil Wayne Covers ‘XXL’

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Lil Wayne returns to the cover of XXL for their August/ September issue. The feature isn’t available to peruse online, but below are a few pull quotes.

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 shit. 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 AUTHENTICITY IN 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 shit. 2Pac was wylin’, talking about West Coast this and that. You had niggas 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 PRINCE BEING HIS MAJOR MUSICAL INFLUENCE:
“It was the way he pronounced words and the way he used his voice. It was like if he was playing with a baby. You know if he was playing with a kid. [Imitates a baby cooing] It was the way that he was exploring it. He wasn’t doing it because it was funny. He was doing it because he could make it sound good and exceptional. I realized that I could do that too. He wasn’t afraid of how he sounded because he knew what he was saying and how he was saying it would always sound good.”

ON SIGNING DRAKE AND NICKI MINAJ:
“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 niggas. I mean males. I was like, ‘I have to beef my shit up on that muthafucka.’ 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.”

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  1. THE REAL mac DIESEL says:

    ONLY THING I AGREE FROM THIS “OVERRATED AND WACK SINCE DAY ONE” NIGGA IS THE AUTHENTICITY OF HIP-HOP!!!! BUNCH OF FUCKIN’ CLONES WITH NO TALENT AND STAR POWER!!!!

    DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!

    1. el jim chapo guzman says:

      Wayne not wack he’s just to fuckin rich to..rap like he’s broke. Wayne is not hungry anymore he comfortable.

      1. THE REAL mac DIESEL says:

        SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! HE’S WACK!!!!

        DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!

        1. el jim chapo guzman says:

          You shut the fuck up I ain’t b dot nigga, I’m el jim chapo guzman nigga. Don’t get me fuck up son.

          1. pit says:

            jim chapo guzman tho *dead*

          2. el jim chapo guzman says:

            i’m fuckin alive nigga.

    2. Brian B.Dot™ Miller says:

      but, u like nothing.

      1. THE REAL mac DIESEL says:

        BUT, YOU LIKE WHAT’S HOT JUST TO GET FREE ENTRY AT INDUSTRY PARTIES!!!!

        ……….HA!!!! SORRY FOR BEING SELECTIVE WITH MY MUSIC, BENSON!!!!

        DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!

  2. TheTruthHurts says:

    Wayne has always been decent at best, very overrated. And XXL is in the shittier too, if you’ve read any issue in the last year you’d know that. Rap Radar is barely any better.

    1. It's Just Music says:

      yet you went on your computer or mobile device.
      typed in rapradar.com
      got hit with a bunch of advertisements (that rapradar gets paid for generating traffic)
      clicked this article
      signed in
      and wrote this comment.

      I agree about the wayne thing though. Decent and overrated as fuck.

      1. TheTruthHurts says:

        Ha yeah its so hard to click the Rap Radar Tab thats with all my other sites, ignore all the ads on the side of the screen, read a dumb article and comment on it with my profile that i’m signed into… Do you know how this site works even though you have a profile? Get a fucking life commenting on a comment that affects you 0%, go back to riding B. Dot’s dick or YN or XXL since this shit makes you butt sore you fucking loser.

  3. The Incredible Creation says:

    *waiting to hear that album tho* http://toomanyfuckinrappers.tumblr.com/

  4. BEE says:

    Kant Wait 4 da Carter V

  5. yeah says:

    Nowwww you’re nervous and concerned how people think as you’re on your way out…..

  6. SD #ash Tag says:

    This is laughable. Used to love this dudes music. Lost me after Carter 3. Now he’s just a fuckin clown.

  7. cannon says:

    Weezy F! wish he was leanin maaane…damn. still in my top 5tho.

  8. ZoomZoomDad-Otis says:

    Its a Wack Weezy sighting ! This guy is the epitome bottom trash when it comes to making music.

  9. Hussle says:

    If yall tell me those singles “Believe me” and “Krazy” are anything close to what we want from weezy….yall trippin!!! Those singles are lukewarm and yall know it…even the biggest fans know it. I been a Wayne fan since shittt idk. The block is hot??? But he aint even trying to make a good song anymore. Sounds lazy…

  10. I wasn’t a fan of C4, but I have a feeling Wayne might just show up on C5. It’s just a matter of time before we find out. Hope he does well though.

  11. JMcL says:

    Wayne is a god dam legend. he makes classics and some of you just cant see that

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