Usually, I like to read Lil Wayne’s interviews & poke fun. As MTV’s been releasing excerpts of their interview this week, I’ve been amused & confused, trying to decipher through the babble.
However, when Wayne started speaking on his love affair with his pink cup, I couldn’t even laugh anymore.
“Do your history, do your research,” he vented. “It ain’t that easy — feels like death in your stomach when you stop doing that sh–. You gotta learn how to stop, you gotta go through detox. You gotta do all kinds of stuff. Like I said, I’m a selfish-ass n—a. I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It’s gonna be hard to tell me I’m slipping. It’s hard to sit and tell a n—a ‘Stop.’ ‘F—, how can we tell this n—a to stop when every f—ing thing he do is successful? This n—a is making progress.
On the words from family & friends…
“It’s inspiring me, but I’mma tell them now they better stop,” he warned. ” ‘Cause they [are trying to] push me off the edge. If I jump, I’m taking the world with me. That’s my word.”
You know, sometimes we’re our own worst enemies. Couple that with fame, fortune & a few “yes” men in your ear & it’s a dangerous mixture. Delusions of grandeur as those more poetic might say.
I’m not judging.
When you’re consumed by something – be it drugs, alcohol, the opposite sex or a behavior – it’s hard to break free from it, lest you feel as if you couldn’t breath or function without it.
As a recovering asshole, I’m gonna send one up for Dwayne.
Truly hoping he doesn’t have to fall on his ass to know what it means to him.
Lil Wayne On Syrup: ‘Everybody Wants Me To Stop … It Ain’t That Easy’ [MTV]
EDIT – I’ve had this footage of Bun speaking on syrup for a few weeks, but couldn’t find the proper context to work it in.
Now seems like a good spot.
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Max B – Drop That Top
J-Kwon – Boo Boo
Max B – Haters
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1st NICCA
Damn, Wayne is messed up. I ain’t a big fan of his, but he need to stay of that lean.
I read this earlier today.
People (people that I personally know… who are certainly old enough to know better) are now drinking promethazine and codeine concoctions.
And it makes me sick to my stomach.
I could see a teen or someone in their early 20′s being influenced by a rapper, but this ish is ridiculous.
These people I know are adults with children and careers… taking Hip-Hop’s lyrics and way of life too far.
As far as Wayne… he speaks truth about the effects of addiction (physically), but you have the resource$ to get off of it without experiencing withdrawals – so detox before it hurts you in your career or worse… kills you.
Always easier said than done unfortunately. The thing is – it has so little to do with the power of money…but with your own personal willpower.
damn them some corny newscasters
Bun Beeeee
Looks like Nivea better get used to the idea of a menage a trois: Her, Birdboy, & that pink cup of his…
True Gotty…niggas may speak on how “powerful” they are in the streets, but they don’t have what it takes mentally.
I need some help…I’m looking for a track called “Creepin”, I don’t know whose song it is, but Twista, Kurupt, 8 Ball, and Too $hort are all on it, I’m looking for the full song, the version I have cuts short during Kurupt’s verse.
i’ve never been a huge ugk fan, but i respect everything theyve done for houstons hip-hop scene and their impact on hip-hop in general.
john bonham
jim morrison
jimi hendrix
odb
pimp c
lets hope weezy doesn’t add himself to this tragic list.
Guess I have some strong willpower then.
I speak from experience – but never touched an illegal drug in my life (thanks doc).
Been through it.
Made it.
Hard part for creative types as well is that they link their creativity to the drug experience. Makes giving up the drug that much harder.
Take the title song. ‘Dying,” is some tripped out shit, maybe my favorite Lil Wayne song ever…partially because it makes me want to go roll a blunt and drift off. Clear that’s what Weezy was doing when he made it. Could he even come up with that shit if sober? Hard to say.
But there are alot of dead artists who let the drugs get the best of them. Hopefully Weezy wont be next on the list.
Damn I plagerized!
all u need is green, unfortunately some ppl can’t even control themselves with that..
yep..@complexone…Fox 26 news is hella corny
in the ‘H’.
I’m a writer.
I drink at least I six-pack a night, and since I get by in life, it’s hard for people to tell me to stop, they have nothing to point out, no “problems” to highlight.
And I’m not a millionaire like Weezy F. But it’s good to see him actually acknowledging this, it’s at least a first step. Good luck to him (even if I don’t fiend over all his verses).
yeah, the best music has always been created by those under the influence.
Parliament/Funkadelic
Rick James
the band that did the theme for The Great Space Coaster…lol
I will not lie…
Dope (even in prescription form) makes you…
Well…
Dope.
But I am certain most already know this.
There was a reason he was found more than once with narcotics.
They do make you more “creative.”
And quicker in your creative process.
(Unfortunately)
Yo, the other thing to consider is the history of artists who have their lives cut off early, only to have critics rave about them after they’re gone. The promise of an artist is almost always greater than the product. I think that idea is even more accentuated when you apply it to someone’s life as an artist, which is what Wayne clearly considers himself, as well as dozens of authors, painters, poets, actors and the like have before him. Do we as listeners value what he stands for or who he is prior to opening his mouth as ‘Lil’ Wayne’? At a certain point you get limited by the statements you’ve made in the past, trapped in your own art, I guess. What would happen to him if he stopped blazing and sipping? That’s such a huge part of his steeze that it’d be hard for him to drop it.
Can someone hook up thay weezy dying track and the one song produced by kanye? Thanks
Really good points by Lund, who might as well become the world’s first professor on Lil’ Wayne.
It makes me think of a Ghostface show in DC where Ghost asked in between sets how many people in the building were smoking. After an extended cheer, Ghost had a rare revealing moment where he explained that he hadn’t smoked since half-way through the recording for “The Pretty Toney Album”
He said the album was taking him such a long time that he had to take a step back, consider what was inhibiting his creative process and fix the problem. Three solid albums later, you could say it worked, and it’s easy to see the distinction in content.
While Supreme Clientele was full of abstract non-decipherable sentences, Pretty Toney onwards really started focusing on the detail (you almost hear the shift halfway through the album “Beat the Clock” is the old random snippets and “Run” is the new detailed Ghost). Especially on Fishscale and More Fish, its clear he started focusing on details details and more details (just peep “Shakey Dog” or “Alex (Stolen Script)”).
Weezy without lean is like Dilla beats that sound clean
it ain’t gonna happen, it don’t sound right like yo momma rappin’
@ Jesse H.
Supreme Clientele has end-to-end burners, nothing but anthems on there.
I saw Ghost rock at the Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival last summer, and all them NY heads were screaming for Ghost to rock joints off of Supreme Clientele.
I don’t think sober music makes for classic material
^WTF?
LOL
rap is the one form of music that hasn’t really had rampant use of drugs (i don’t count weed as a “drug”)…with the exception of Three Six’s cocaine use and New York rappers talkin bout PCP…jazz, rock, country, blues – all saturated with cocaine, herion, heavy drinking, etc…looks like hip-hop has finally found its drug of choice, and it’s not just for the south anymore…i don’t see it stopping any time soon, it seems like it’s becoming more and more accepted and used, even as we see people die because of its use…you have to think that, especially with rappers’ love of excess and insistance on actin tough and living dangerously, the death toll’s just going to continue to rise…smh…damn shame…folks need to learn their limits or just give drugs up
All I know…
if Wayne was to OD in the near future, he’d leave behind a legacy of heaping bird shit.
Mixtapes. Outtakes. Guest appearances. Freestyles.
???? Best rapper alive????
Nope.
I feel like dying is probably my favorite lil wayne song.
and i’m not much of a fan of the man.
As for kicking addictions, it’s a battle.
You only win by fighting it out all the way through, not fighting it out the right way. You dont need rehab, you dont need to gracefully exhort the habit. You just need to do what it is you need to do to be who it you need to be.
My 2/100
TC, Hush.
He’ll be one of those rappers who release 30 posthumous albums.
Wow you all……..I can’t really co-sign with the you gotta be high to make a classic. Thats like saying you gotta be on steroids to play ball.
Yo Bomber whats the password to that Weezy?????
and here’s another hit: Barry Bonds
we damn sure remember those that made their mark, though…whether it’s through the use of steroids or coke or weed
He’ll be one of those rappers who release 30 posthumous albums.
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And still never get 4 Cigs…
once had a professor tell the class, “humans are the only species on the planet that have the ability to rationalize themselves out of existence…”
can’t believe cats think being sober hinders you from making classic material. you may lose the ability to make an aspect of HIGH classic material, but classic material altogether? I’m calling bullsh*t on that one…
I’d be one to say Wayne would probably benefit from being sober, since most criticisms surrounding his work focus on his lack of subject focus….
wealthy or not, here’s a toast to dude gettin’ his sh*t together…
and TC,you’re right…
30 posthumous albums and we’d still be waiting on that “one great album”….
a clever verse EVERY NOW AND THEN does not constitute a “Greatest Rapper Alive” title…
“Sorry but I don’t respect who you applaudin’
little nigga flow but his metaphors boring
don’t make me turn daddy’s little girl to orphan
that would mean I’d have to kill baby like abortion.”
Glad to see folks aint havin it. Where were ya’ll on the Larry Davis post? lol
and Gotty…..still waitin for that info mayne!
@ Big Fonz
goleech.org is the password sorry bout that big homie
^ Thanks bro. My boy at work feens for anything from Weezy.
@ Nonchalant-
Def. no slight on Supreme Clientele with that comment, I love that album like any Ghost fan, but I don’t find Fishscale any less classic in my book. My main point was that the content in his later material seems more focused which is potentially because he stopped smoking. Even without weed though, its clear that he still has his vices. Listen to “Keisha’s House” off of Pretty Toney and you’ll hear a perfect example of a guy getting a bit too drunk at a house party and the mindset that goes along with it. Bottom line though: I’ll take good Emceeing, whether they need or don’t need drugs/alcohol to create it.
Hell Andre 3000 is clean and there’s no way anyone can front on dude’s creativity (from ATLiens: “… no drugs or alcohol so I can get the signal clear as day”)
In my experience, weed works differently for everybody, (more so than most drugs). I personally love the feeling it gives me, but I can’t write anything coherent that’s worth a damn when I’m high.
earth drugs man = weed, shrooms
^^^ all u need
a drunk mind speaks with a sober tongue.
^ less inhibited maybe
^true
and aren’t inhibitions barriers?
Proof in the support: Bun B is REALLY an eloquent guy and posed well. PEACE
HipHop State of Mind! heu Greums..!
“My flow sick, so sick it’s like my shit is dyin’
It rains a lot in my city, ’cause my city’s cryin’
Cause my city’s dyin’
But I emerged from all of that I am a living pion
Neer, Scion/Fear God, not them.”
… “I Am Hip-Hop! And I ain’t dead, I’m alive.”
huge difference b/w releasing inhibitions & abuse.
NDIAMONDS
You ever heard Dj Signify – Signifiying Breaks?
other than the conmen joints that one is my fav.
I gotta find it on mp3, still got the tape.
http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/?p=1041
Man I swear I wrote a post on musical greats & drug abuse. But I’ve been looking off & on for three weeks w/no luck.
Is that Red & Meth new?
http://www.zshare.net/audio/207205487ca55f/
lil wayne – i feel like dying
Lil Wayne??? Who cares???!!! Had enough of him from 2007, put out an album or shut the fuck up already!!!
lol @ cats in here justifying their drug use for whatever reason. “I know how the pleasure feels, I’m not judging,” (Thought) but still, smarten up. All those greats who abused drugs to no end…Sly, Parliament-Funkadelic, Marvin…looks how that shit ended up. Trust me, there are sober niggas running circles around you all.
Barack did his share of partying back in the day, but son couldn’t run for president until his nose was clean. Hell, he may have even put those Newports down.
yeah, that whole”get high to tap creative energy”…it’s a crock and a crutch.
Having been sober for 4 years, I’ve learned one thing about myself – creatively, I’m just as dangerous sober, perhaps even more b/c there’s a cohesiveness in the finished product most times.
Hehe…true story, I made TSS to keep myself busy while remaining sober.
those loosies are disgusting. TC how do you spell that clipse sound again?
sober life > high life
with the exception of maybe miller high life, because that’s the champagne of beers. haha.
they’ve been doing this in texas since like the late 80′s, early 90′s.
dudes need to lay off of this stuff man.
its ridiculous.
too many have fallen from this practice.
Kush life > Sober life