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Who favorited?Lil' Wayne Speaks On Competition And Pain
by on November 30th, 2007
Lil Wayne recently had an interview for Complex magazine where he spoke about everything from how he writes to what he thinks about the current state of hip-hop. It was brought up that he had been singing a lot more on his latest tracks, so when asked about it he responded by saying it was the "Pain, that's all that is, pain, pain brings that out you." So where is the pain coming from?
"Me. If you blame something else for your pain then you're an asshole. You are your pain, nigga. You can cut yourself right now. That don't hurt because you are your pain. If it hurts you, then you done that, it's a mind thing. You ever notice when you have a very stuffy nose or you have a cold and you eat something, you don't taste nothing, you be like, "I can't eat nothing, I can't taste it, I'm hungry," that's because you don't actually taste nothing, you know what I mean? You are you, you make everything around you. You make water, you make the sky, because it's you, if you don't want that to be water then it ain't water, fuck. It's you, so...ya dig?"
Confused? Well don't worry, he clears it up for us when he was questioned on weather he feels he's competing against anybody. Lil Wayne brought up Oscar De La Hoya as an example of his respect for getting Floyd Mayweather in the ring, losing the fight and still coming out with more money. "When Michael Buffer started speaking he didn't say broadcasting live from Showtime HBO, that nigga said, his first words were, 'Brought to you by Golden Boy Promotions...' That's his fight, I don't give a fuck, beat me, you made my fight, [claps] thank you. Can you please whoop my ass again on TV? It was the most viewed fight ever in history; I broke records, thank you. That's how you gotta think man, that nigga's a monster. Him, Tom from MySpace and Bill Gates, I just wanna smoke three blunts with them, just three, just three blunts, I bet you I'll come back high, whoo, them niggas are beast."
He said he had a lot of love for people who do whatever they want. "....Martin Luther King said we can do what the fuck we want, he do what the fuck he want, him and Bam Margera. What will Bam do next? Whatever the fuck they want...that's one of my favorite shows." So does the man write his lyrics? He says he doesn't really write. "I don't write nothing, I just keep ideas and never fucking use them. I just write down shit, like bad situations or stories. Jot them down as I go, like, cool idea, and if I fucking remember when I'm in the studio-when I'm in the studio, when I hear a new song, I'm going to start a line off fresh and I always just keep going because I be like, "I'm killing it right now but I know I got some bad ass ideas written down."
When he is laying down his verses, he says he like to "visualize" everything first. "I like to see it before I say it, how I want to look on the video or if it's going to be a single, I take it all the way down to if I was rapping this motherfucker song a capella to a person that don't know or like me, that's how I approach every song, how can I get a person to pay attention to it? I ain't gotta get you to like me but I can get a person to pay attention. Like, the people you're sitting next to on the plane and they're wondering why the fuck you're sitting next to them in first class, I want them to be able to ask me a question and I'll be able to start rapping to them and they don't even know it's a rap." Quite a plane ride.....
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but im lost gotta read it a few more times to understand
good shit tho
You ever notice when you have a very stuffy nose or you have a cold and you eat something, you don’t taste nothing, you be like, “I can’t eat nothing, I can’t taste it, I’m hungry,” that’s because you don’t actually taste nothing, you know what I mean? You are you, you make everything around you. You make water, you make the sky, because it’s you, if you don’t want that to be water then it ain’t water, fuck. It’s you, so…ya dig?"
Crazy talk
this nigga does way to many drugs. even tho i cud relate to that.
and even tho he on some ozzy osborne shit.
i feel like hes bein real. and he gets respect for that.
he got no seritonin left.
cuz he pops e all the time
Please tell me this shit was taken out of context and scarmbled around to make us laugh…PLEASE!
This is by far one of the dumbest fuckin’ interviews I’ve ever came across….
“You ever notice when you have a very stuffy nose or you have a cold and you eat something, you don’t taste nothing, you be like, “I can’t eat nothing, I can’t taste it, I’m hungry,” that’s because you don’t actually taste nothing, you know what I mean? You are you, you make everything around you. You make water, you make the sky, because it’s you, if you don’t want that to be water then it ain’t water, fuck. It’s you, so…ya dig?"
Wow…the whole time i’m reading this I swear, I’m really starting to understand what the D.A.R.E program and all of those fuckin’ after school specials were about now.
All I kept hearing in my mind throughout the whole interview is:
THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DRUGS!
~Be Eazy!
“We are not the same I am a martian”
Lil Wayne
NO IM NOT A HATER..AND THANK U D-BOI07 FOR PUTTIN IT IN ELEMENTARY FOR THE SLOW NIGGAZ..
BUT LISTEN, LIL WAYNE IS RANDOM AS FUK…HE JUS BE TALKIN…THATS THAT COKE UP HIS NOSE OR SOMETHIN. HES A CRACK HEAD 4 REAL..
MONEY IS MAKIN LIL WAYNE..HE AINT MAKIN MONEY…
TALKIN ABOUT DELA HOYA IS A BEAST JUS CUZ HE GOT MORE MONEY…BUT WHO GOT THERE ASS WHOOPED…
LIL WAYNE WOULD GET FUKED IN HIS ASS WHOLE FOR A MILLION DOLLORS I BET HE WOULD. MONEY HUNGRY NIGGAZ AINT GOIN TO HEAVEN…MONEY IS KOO BUT ITS ONLY TEMPORARILY HAPPINESS .
WEEZY AINT NO BEST RAPPER ALIVE / HES NOT NO BEST eVER..HELL DA FUK NO!!HAHA…
PAC
BIG
NAS
JAY
SAIGON
BISHOP LAMONT
AND THE LIST GOES ON…..
FUCK WAYNE!!
KEEP SUPPORTIN GAY PEOPLE..YALL NIGGAZ IS GAY IF YALL DO….
PERIOD..
WHAT HES TALKIN ABOUT IS KINDA SMART BUT OK?? AND….HAHAHA..RANDOM ASS NIGGA…
IM OUTRO IM GETTIN TIRED OF HEARIN OF THIS DUDE..
I DO LIKE HIS WORK ETHIC THO! CUZ HE STAYS IN THE STUDIO AND IM FILLEN THAT. BUT WHERE DOES HE BY THE TIME TO BUST ALL THESE GUNZ HE HAVE?? HAHAHA..
STUDIO GANGSTA…
YA BOI BG 7 4 14 GDN nigga
Sooner or later I’ll cut it knock the blades in yo ass
You homo niggas getting Aids in the ass
While the homie here tryna get paid in advance
I’m staying on my grizzy I’ma bonafide hustler
Play me or play wit me then I’m going find your mother )
Now if ur one of the the people that think that shit is so hot i bet when that nigga came out with drop it like its hot with juve and the hotboyz yall niggaz wasnt on his dick.And yall girls sayin how good this nigga look.when that nigga first came out yall didnt even know who he was.Yall only knew Juve and BG
Lol.
Peace!
it made sence. but he said it in a retarded ass way.
if he was smarter he could have said….
LIFE IS WAT U MAKE IT. U CONTROL UR DESTINY.
instead he made people readit like 4 times to understand.
and u kno hes doing drugs wen he compares it to being on coke
nose stuffy
numb
cant eat
It’s not what you say…It’s how you say it.
but alot of the time he says shit that noone understands at all.
Fuckin crackahs.
is it you plies?
and im as black as they come bruh, lol
wtf is he talking about?
cocaine is a hell of a drug……….
Cut yourself sober to see if it doesnt hurt
Seriously..you’re an idiot..only a stan can make sense of some stupid shit like that. “This ain’t a real blog site” …what does that even mean?..We’re not a blog site..we’re a hip hop news site.
Lil’ Wayne = just confusing
Is the hip hop community ever going to be united?
“You ever notice when you have a very stuffy nose or you have a cold and you eat something, you don’t taste nothing, you be like, “I can’t eat nothing, I can’t taste it, I’m hungry,” that’s because you don’t actually taste nothing, you know what I mean"
Was in any shape or form insightful or deep..that’s like saying
“You ever notice how when someone gets hit by a car and they get hurt ..and they be like “ow it hurts” “I can’t feel my legs” that’s because they got hit by a car, know what i mean?"…
It’s just idiotic. You can try to find the deeper meaning in what he said but believe me, I doubt there is one.
Maybe he is from Mars.
yo lil wayne is gay. he kissed another man..if thats not gay i dont know what is.
Yeah, I said it. Eff it.
ND YA HE ON THA HIGH SHIT BUT NIGGA STILL SMART. HE JUST THINKS DIFFERENTLY. ND NIGGAZ TALKN BOUT STUDIO GANGSTA. NIGGA WAS ARRESTED LIKE TWICE IN THA LAST 2 MONTHS ON POSSESION OF THA DRO ND GUNZ. NIGGAS TALK SHIT LIKE THEY KNO IT. ON THA REAL IF U DONT KNO DONT SAY NUTHIN.
LIL WAYNE IS THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE….
BUT HE ISN’T THE BEST EMCEE ALIVE FEEL ME?
wayne could say “hjgyfudfjhbidyi” and dudes would still rub their pussies to it.
It would seem anybody who ain’t comment with tha intent to say, he’s retarded, or he smokes crack, or look how dumb he is, is getting hated on because they ain’t follow tha plan that was meant for tha article, damn I thought these were just all opinions, I didn’t know things had gotten to tha point where people are trying to dictate comments as well as tha news, mannn, tha government ain’t tha only ones trying to make power moves…a lot of news is against hip hop, we shouldn’t have one of our own bashing hip hop, and Wayne is hip hop because he’s tha picture that is out there…this ain’t a good look, many news heads are right when they say they don’t have to criticize us because we do it enough
yall prolly right.
but that dude gets mad respect from me.
this dude nows is shit,
ive always told everyone i met you do you and i do me if we cool. then we cool if not its whatever like fuck it.
Like Him Saying Bam Margera what will he do next watever the fuck he want. so if wayne want to do whatever the fuck he want then so be it.
i guees wayne is saying you make life what it is so leave the life you want ya dig.
shit wanye nows whats poppin. get at me.
money over bitches all day everyday.
its a real shame, but his substance abuse has killed his short term memory. his speech sounds mad trippy and reminds me of mushrooms. you know when u first trip, and like normal people “just don’t understand”? like when you think you have the world figured out completely but can’t put it into words? i think wayne is stuck in that sort of daze. he has the world figured out (however dark and whacked out his vision is)and he tries to explain his world to through his music and his interviews. no one gets him, but he doesnt give fuck. that’s his “thing”… not giving a fuck. seems like a vicious cycle.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT HE’S TALKIN ABOUT?
This Nicca should stick to his features, call the wackest current NY dudes for a guest spot, call Fat Joe & Ja, I’m sure they will be happy to make Gar-ba-ge hits with you,…& please shut the fuck up,…I can’t even hear yet alone listen to this dude no more. I think he def. has an identy crisis,…
I’m sure his dada Marrying an 18 year has fucked him up since he don’t get his attention no more
-——————————————————————————————————————-In the past couple of years, you’ve won over lots of fans and critics. Your popularity has skyrocketed. What’s your mind-set right now with Tha Carter III coming out?
My mind-set is always the same. I’m never there. That’s the mind-set I stay with: You’re never there, until you’re there.
Where is there? Do you mean the top?
Who knows? Maybe the top isn’t where I need to be. But I just know one day I will be there. Wherever there should be. That’s what my mind frame is every day: working on getting there. You’re never there.
Tha Carter III is probably your most anticipated album. Do you sense that you have a different type of popularity now?
The difference is more… And people expect more. I want this shit to be the best. It ain’t even about being great. They want me to be better than something they can compare it to—whatever they compare it to. Whatever’s best, they want me to be that. That’s a great feeling, ’cause I know I gotta meet that quota every time. And it makes me try to be on my shit.
That pressure, does it—Not at all, sweetheart. My mama taught me things backwards when I was small. Love was hate. Opposite. When you grow up, you find out what’s real, but you already used to the words… Trust me, I’m human, baby. I don’t want nobody looking like, “That nigga’s lying.” It’s pressure, but I’m different. Pressure to me may be a turn-on. I need that motivation. Pressure to somebody else is pressure.
In your last XXL interview, you said you weren’t concerned about sales, that you just wanted to make a great album.
Yeah, that’s very not important to me—sales. I’m not set out to be bought. I’m set out to be heard… I’m focused on making great music. Every time I step in the booth, there’s nothing else. I’m not trying to make a great album. I just try to make great music.
Your development as an artist surprised a lot of people. You went from being just another member of Cash Money to being recognized as a top lyricist in the game. Do you ever wonder how the perception of you has changed?
If I thought about that, I’d be the craziest dude in the world. ’Cause perception is from somebody else’s eyes. I can’t get in your head and see what you see, so why would I even care about what you see? Fuck what you see. I wish all you bitches was blind… A lotta people didn’t expect me to be this good. I like them just as well, because now that mean I have to be better for them. To blow their mind. Now I have to do something superstupid for them to be like, “Damn, I ain’t never knew you’d be this good.”
Have you felt the change from just a rapper to a superstar?
[Long pause] I’d be lying if I say I don’t. I’m trying to be modest. Yeah, I did. Because I carry myself different now. I dress different now. I act different. As far as behind the mic, though, no. Because I don’t look at myself as a superstar behind the mic. Never have. I look at myself as—I don’t know why I keep using these damn words—great or the best. As far as the skills part of it or the technical part of it, that’s the only thing that’s grown. It ain’t about I’ve grown into this superstar. It’s about I’ve grown into this person that people pay attention to. I’ve grown into this person that people expect from.
Is it hard to meet those expectations when you record so much material and with so many different artists? Is it hard to maintain high standards? Some people say you’re what makes those songs hot—I’m what makes the song great. You can’t play “This Is Why I’m Hot” on the radio right now. They gon’ call up and be like, “What the hell is that?” [Sings the hook to last winter’s ubiquitous hit from Mims] This is why… That’s not hot. That’s old. You can play “Tha Block Is Hot.” Fuck my song. You can play Destiny’s Child “Soldier”! You could do that. That’s okay. You could play Lloyd’s “You.” Chris Brown. I don’t make hot music. I make great music. If I make hot music, then I been on fire for a long fuckin’ time. The flame is burning out, sweetheart. I’m not hot. I’m great.
Okay. The collaborations with nonrappers like Gym Class Heroes and Enrique Iglesias obviously expand your audience and increase your visibility. But do you think it could be damaging in any way?
No, I just think it’s setting a trend for music. Like, if you wanna be successful, you gotta work like shortie. You gon’ see him on the BET Awards. He gon’ perform twice on that bitch. On MTV Awards. He gon’ be on the pre-show performance. And then he gon’ come out with a new mixtape, and then he gon’ be on this person single. You gotta tackle it like I do. I think I’ma set that bar and have people thinking, man—
That working hard actually works.
Yeah. I set a bar for everybody, mentally. Everybody in the game. I say mental bar ’cause of what I think they can or can’t do. ’Cause I don’t know what nobody can do. I don’t think nobody knows what they can do ’til they do it… A lotta people have better situations than I, and they know that. People look at me like, “I can do that.” Work that hard. Work like Wayne. I’m changing it. It used to be, “Work like Jamaicans.” Work like Wayne.
[Laughs] 50 called you an industry whore because of all your guest verses. Is there anybody you would turn down doing a record with?
Hell no. Whores get paid. I don’t care. It’s music, let’s make it. I’ll only turn you down if you ain’t got the price. I’ll turn you down and away.
Some people think you’re oversaturating the market, though. Have you ever thought about that?
Listen. [Leans in, speaking directly into the recorder] Darling, I don’t care what nobody think. Talk to me like you talking to Martin Luther King or Malcolm X. You’re not about to ask him about what he think about what somebody said about him. You ’bout to ask him about his greatness, and his greatness only. I don’t care what nobody think. If I did, you wouldn’t be sitting on my muthafuckin’ million-dollar bus in my 15th year at the same muthafuckin’ company and business. I’m a role model. You should get like me. Get like you? No. Get like me. Ya understand me? I’m not hot. Hot dies out. Baby, I’m me. Who the fuck done this? Nobody. Compare me to people that’s not even living, baby. And they didn’t even do it—what they comparing me to. No disrespect to them. You found songs on those people after they died. I’m still living.
that right there is ALL wayne needs to say.he never wants to burn out like mims. and as much as people hate on wayne, we all know, he will never burn out, cuz he is great.great should be a noun . read into what hes saying you will see hes real and isnt putting on a show.he sticks to his guns, and he dont need to fukin pop guns to do that. to be a true gangsta. ppl hate cuz he sits in the booth alllllll day and smokes allll day. he has been doing taht for years. so its who he is. sure he babbles off at the mouth and may come off unclear, but thats to ignorant fucks that aren’t respecting his artform. . im not even a lil wayne dickriding wigga im a 2o yr old levi skinny jeans wearin whiteboy from sj taht respects rap as an art, and wayne has crafted it to near perfection, and hes not even done yet haha so get off waynes coaster if you cant handle the ride and i been listenin to wayne since i was bout 9 so thall shall fall back….dont pick the nigga apart, open your mind, ears and shut your mouth if you dont feel it cuz he dont give a fuck.but i do. hahaha i gotta stop.