Bryan "Baby" Williams also known as the Birdman, in a recent interview discussed his feelings on his ability to rap, problems that met his Cash Money label, new album, and his son Lil Wayne.
According to the Miami News, Baby discussed in a move that's rare in the unabashedly arrogant culture of hip-hop, admits he was aware of his flaws. "I felt like I couldn't rap, and I was around these li'l niggas and I felt like they could bag me up with rappin'," he says. "The only thing to do was for me to shine. I felt like I needed to be a jewelry nigga, a car nigga, to stand out from everybody." He and Fresh flaunted mega-mansions and fleets of cars on MTV's celebrity pissing contest, Cribs, but when Fresh departed in 2005, claiming still-unsubstantiated monetary misconduct, once again Birdman was left holding the bag. But to a guy who has consistently proven his skill of making cake out of shit, change is always good.
Speaking on his label, Birdman stated that all big labels met their demise such as Master P's No Limit, Diddy's Badboy and NWA. Cash Money Millionaires were no different. Around 2001, original members BG, Turk, and Juvenile all jumped ship amid allegations of financial mishandling. Birdman was handed the blame. But several years later, it seems there's no love lost on his part.
"I'ma tell ya this here, bebe. Hopefully I'ma put that shit back together," he says. "And I'll do it just to show that you know a nigga ain't trippin'. I'm a hustla, I'm grown, you know. I been doing this. They need a nigga, ya heard me. They out in that world drownin' like a mothafucka, ya heard me."
Speaking on Fresh leaving the label, Baby says, "I think it was a gift
and a curse."" The curse is 'cause I never would have wanted it to be
like that, 'cause I came up with him. But the gift was once I let the
shit go, it gave us an opportunity to start molding our talent," he
says. "Now we get to pick what we like and what we think people like."
Since then, "we" has meant Birdman and Lil Wayne, the last original Hot
Boy standing. Wayne was never a Lil like Bow Wow or Romeo. He was always
a manchild, even at the age of 11, when Birdman took him under his
wing. And Birdman insists he always knew Wayne would be a star.
"Wayne never stopped," he explains. "He take it like a professional; he
never stop working and that's why he where he is. And besides that, the
li'l nigga super gifted, extra-smart, talented like a mothafucka. You
know it's possible that they can have another Wayne come out, but what
he 'bout to do is a miracle for us to see. We was fortunate to grow up
on Tupac, but he died young. This shit Wayne got bigger that. Bigger
than Tupac, bigger than Biggie and Jay-Z. It's crazy."
In 1999, when Wayne went on record and told grown men to "separate me
from the fake" and that they "better vacate the premises," it seemed he
was issuing a call to foes in the street. But looking back, it was
clear that Wayne's statement was prophetic and that he was talking to
cats in the game right now. Currently his career is unparalleled. Now
13 years in the business without having fizzled out, he boasts a voice
that is flooding Top 40 radio stations as well as tracks featuring him
alongside Beyoncé and Britney. And he still maintains the underground
cred that made him famous.
With the release of his latest album, 5 Star, slated for release
December 18, and his contract with Universal up at the end of the year,
more changes are undoubtedly on the horizon. But one thing he promises
won't change is his presence in the industry. "This is our way of life,
so this shit ain't goin' nowhere. We want it so bad, so we gonna go
real hard regardless."
COMMENTS
Word. Wayne been kissin more than jus Baby's face.
i am very close to seconding this i like sum of wayne shit especially dedication 2 carter 2 and drought 3 but the shyt ive been hearing lately is trash he need to step his game up he is not a legend
haters read then get mad
shit u niggas are stupid...clean ur ears..weezy is it..dont hate cuz u anit nothing...face it if tupac or biggie were alive still they would have to work 10 times harder then they did....and far as i care jay z's wack as a muthafucka...WEEZYs the futur ur notihng face it...shoot ur selfs u wanksta ass wannabes that anit shit so stop hating...:>like weezy this weezy that ur the ones on his dick not baby...so fall off eat shit and die.....learn how to listen to lyrics not ur lil gangsta talk bullshit u fake bitches needed to LISTEN....go learn sumthing....dont hate the great BITCHHHHHHHHHHHESs
For the wayne fans talkin shit...i feel bad for you gentlemen cuz you don't know shit about the game. Wayne blowin up right now cuz he's hoppin on all these tracks with the little finger snaps and ringtones and shit. He's the epitome of what's killin hip-hop right now. He hop on a track and maybe spit a few hot punch lines...but the messages he's sendin ain't no different from what any of these other cats in the game are sayin. Hip-hop no longer has any meaning cuz the only sellin these days is garbage from niggas like mims and it's cuz niggas support rappers like weez. We got niggas like mims toppin the charts but then there's cats like saigon who spit that real shit who've been int he game for years and he still hasn't hit the mainstream. Somethin's fucked up in the game right now and it's got a lot to do with niggas like these^^^
Well look who your asking? Baby's form of hip hop is extremley wack with nothing relevant and you can't expect baby not to say Wayne is the "best" cuz they tounge kiss and suck eachothers cocks from time to time.
dis nigga is fuckin crazy for sayin sum stupid shit like dis
i agree
i am a lil wayne fan..... and i think what he said is stupid... thats disrespect 2 the greatest
Nigha all shut the fuck up cassidy is the truth
baby needs 2 slow the fuck down. let wayne pave his own way instead of destrying his career by prematurely comparing him to 2 of the greatest. in my opinion he never will be that great no matter how many mixtapes, albums, or videos he puts out
i dont even want to read this damn article for real.... i cant even fathom how he is going to justify a statement that fuckin bold
i think the goal was to have people talkin. and guess what we're doing...
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Since you didnt read it basically this is what he is saying....We was fortunate to grow up on Tupac, but he died young. This shit Wayne got bigger that. Bigger than Tupac, bigger than Biggie and Jay-Z. It's crazy." Now 13 years in the business without having fizzled out, he boasts a voice that is flooding Top 40 radio stations as well as tracks featuring him alongside Beyoncé and Britney. And he still maintains the underground cred that made him famous.
So in a nutshell Wayne has been doing WHAT he does for some time now! Look how long his career has been in...when do you see him following off ......I DONT any time SOON! He has 2 records scheduled to come out Dec. 18th and also on Feb.12th......Wayne is everywhere.
what weezy has done in ten+ years of rapping cant compare with what BIG did in 1 album. get the fuck outta here.
I mean they talked a good game.. now its time to see what he brings with the Carter III... I aint sayin nuttin bout it till it comes uo..
yea me neither ima just wait.
lol. I guess a homo is better than Big, Pac and Jay. Get the fuck outta here. I mean no hatin Wayne is tight but I think he will never make it to top 5.
baby, wayne, and thre stans only say this shit because it creates buzz for the artist and they kno they can get away with it. they aint sayin its true its just their opinion.
so i dont give two fucks how good they say wayne is because i still hold rights to MY opinion
He Doesnt Even Have a Legacy
Naw...Wayne got talent.. If U deny that ur a hater regardless of what U say.. He has talent, flashes signs of lyrical ability at moments but then kills it wit a dumb song or verse...He has talent..
We cant say his statements aren't true.. We gotta wait till the Carter III drops.. cuz what happends if it drops on some ill-matic shit.. probably wont but... I pretty much kno it has to be at least "ok" because most of the hott tracks he coulda put on it "Gossip" , "Trouble", "Burn This City" arent even goin to be on "Carter III" . So hopefully thats him sayin. "I got hotter shit in stored".......Gotta wait till his c.d. come out to say these comments aren't true..so stay tuned..
no no no..... dont get what i said twisted... let me rephrase it.... With all these younger kids, even old ones these days.... The way they love that nigga wayne, He has the potential to be among the greats to them. I personally dont put him in the class with B.I.G. and the rest... but its kinda like the way young people compared Tyson in his prime to Ali. But the older crowd was like hell nah, Tyson is good but he isnt Ali. Thats just the way shit goes...
Don't mean to get off subject, but are you trying to take my name, I never heard of you before. (No disrespect, just joking)
Like on sum serious. I dnt know about the best but the nigga wayne is damn close. I would definitely put the nigga in Pac's category on anyday. I ain't sayin that cause I'm a fan Shyt my nigga is Styles. Wayne could be the best rapper ever an if not definitely in the top 5 all-time. He's gifted an dedicated to what he does. So, i feel he has the right to be ranked with the best of the best
lil wayne bigger than tupac, shit we all know tupac is like the air jordan of rap, the walter payton, the magic johnson, not only was tupac the greatest rapper that every was, he raped about shit that matter, plus u never see tupac kiss a niiga on the mouth shit please!!!!!
i feel you 100%... 2pac wasnt my favorite artist, biggie wasnt either... through out the 90's and still to this day i was always on my WU shit... but what im saying is that whether we like it or not music has changed and it will keep changing. Today little niggas say that little wayne is the best rapper alive... 2020 its gonna be some nigga named "Big Ron"... and so on and so forth...
co-sign
lol we need a joke of the day section, carter 3 got a lot to live up to if cash money makin claims like this
Wayne couldn't hold Tupac's jock strap. Let's make at least one classic album that people still quote ten years later before making such a claim. Pac sells more records dead than Wayne does alive. Mixtape and single appearances don't build a legacy (see Fabolous). Also, I tried to listen to Wayne on several occasions, and all I hear is him singing or sounding goofy through all of his songs. Gimmicks don't make hip hop legends, hot bars do.
wayne may goof arond a lot but he does have hot bars...shit makes you think and a lot of his new shit is deep shit not just silly goofy shit. he wasn't sayin he's better than pac he was sayin pac died young and wayne is young and still has a long way to go and he's already so big right now. but of course everyone has their own opinion...
OK HOW n fukkkk could u listen 2 sumbody dat doesnt kno shit bout rap "lil wayne is bigger den 2pac ,biggie, and JAY_z ....Ahhh man he must b kissing or sukn on wayne 2 much fukn homo wayne copd his style from gillie da kid cash money iz ASS...!!!!!!!
Word....13 years is a long time to have a legacy, but Wayne truly started getting his serious shine about 4-5 years ago...Ill admit the fact that he has the potential to be Major...I mean, best of all time Major...but its a long road. You look at people unanimously in the top greatest of all time, they did so much. They changed with time. Waynes been here awhile, but he hasnt done what the rest have done. But I believe in about 2 more years, wayne will be even bigger than he is now..and thats word.
This is were the Lil Wayne mess gets outta control. Wayne comes out wit some hot mixtapes and then erbody on him sayin he better than the best who ever did it. Wayne's LPs don't sell to the notch of Jay, Big, or Pac. He's a mixtape rapper and thats it.
ReDef.
dOn't even put them in the same catagory as lil wayne.
For wayne to be even considered he needs to create classics, that don't mention anything about f*cking women or how much money he has or how 'hard' he is...
Dude sux he's not even close to LEGENDS like them plus I dont even get what he sayin.yeah i kiss my daddy that makes me happy your not a rapper and your not a beast get down and kiss my feet as you admit deafet.
First the kiss now this. I agree that lil wayne iz nice but to mention his name wit TUPAC and BIGGIE. Thats exaggerating
i have to agree it is going a lil over the top but of course baby gonna think highly of his lil homie
seriusly, the dudes got potential... but biggie came out with two albums... he was in this game for like 5 years... waynes been in it for like 13 and hasnt amounted 2 big' shadow yet.... he needs a LOTTA work but hes got potential... if eminem is gonna b on his album then i ges i gotta hav a lil faith in tha carter 3.... wayne might be in the top 30 of all time, he has potential to b in the top 10... but hes gotta step his ish up.... come and get yo money lil duffle bag boy
The crazy part is that I've grown to accept and even like some of his shit.
But him being considered the best... c'mon we gotta specify on exactly what we're calling him the best of.
He has a lot of hott shit when you just listen to and accept him as a regular rapper.
But when yall start putting him on a pedastool of the likes of BIG, PAC, JAY, NAS and Kiss...
THEN we start having problems.... because THEN I have to analyze EVERYTHING that he says and most definitely DOES.
When you analyze everything....they're are far better mc's out there way sharper lyrically then Lil Wayne is.
Wayne's like the new version of LL! Lol...damn...
I mean he has all of the kids and women loving him... but what makes him better is that he also has all of the "wanna-be-what he says he is" men following him as well.
The boy has a nice flow... especially considering how it USED to be before they signed GDK...
But I view him the same way I'd view a rich white boy from the suburbs coming out with a gangster album being a Blood and rapping about killing...
A FUCKIN' GIMMICK with a nice buzz!
~Be Eazy!
So true Wiz, thank God someone puts thought into what they type, instead of just running their fingers.
i swear wiz one of the only niggas dat got comments that make some actual since cosign yo point i like wayne but HONESTLY is he fuckin wit biggie if he still alive? HELL NO pac? HELL NO wayne been in the game a long time but ppl startin respectin him as a lyricist jus a few years ago
lol wayne is nice but how the fuck does he compare him to Pac, Big and Jay. he does have talent but there is more work to be done
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm really starting to think Baby and Wayne are using the term "the best ever" as a marketing tool to get the publics attention. To get people to buy the music.
Wiz - well said.
Definitely ^^^ It's how they keep his "BUZZ" going...
He has a helluva PR team! Everyday he's DOING or NOT doing something (and shit...someone lol).
Then fans get interested...jump on the band wagon and voila... Wayne's all anyone knows...like the male Britney!
Lol..I'm an ass!
~Be Eazy!
yoo after i heard dat dumb statement i stop readin dis shit
1st off, i cosign baby like a million times dat he cant rap for shit
2nd, i dont think baby means wayne's better lyrically than them niggas(maybe jay lol), as he said pac n big both died young so they didnt get da chance to do as much
wow...wayne is no where near LEGEND STATUS!...in my opinion he has NO CLASSICS!...name a song or album he had that jus changed the whole game!...NOTHIN!, and im not a hater, but BE REALISTIC!...hes over rated!
BABY ASS MUSH BE BLEEDING AND HE MUST BE CRAZY AS HELL IF HE THINK THIS IS TRUE...
he gotta be crazy weezy is nice but there are rappers alive 2day dat are better than him let alone pac n biggie
cosign, alot of rappers
like cassidy,slim shady,nas,papoose,jadakiss,etc. the list goes on dnt get it twisted wayne-iacs i like wayne but cmon u kno dis shyt is bogus 2 think he bigger/better than pac or biggie
H"S better than who? SO now hes about to start calling hisself the best rapper of All time? LMAO
Man,Wayne got to be kissing more then that mans' face...Oh man whats up Wiz ,speaking that truth..take it easy bro
Yea, I think a lot of people are getting his stuff twisted, it's more to a story than tha way somebody titles it...I think that's tha main reason these articles catch a lot of hate, tha people at Defsounds have to have degrees in media training because they instill people to already have a preconceived notion about what tha article is going to talk about and then people post...Wayne is different, Pac is tha great, but he a different great, he (apart from tha gang affiliated talk) was able to move communities with his words and stir up people with his songs, Wayne moves people but (right now) it's more of a strictly entertaining type of movement...I say (right now) because who's to tell what a man can do, but respect it or not he's got out more hot songs, collabos, and features than anyone, and almost all of his hot stuff is on mixtape right now
and just to keep it real most people don't even be on his hot stuff to a month or two later, thas why Duffle Bag Boy just got hot to mainstream but I been banging it since late Summer early Fall
man late summer is still old, u could cop that shit on an unofficial version of drought 3 back in may
You can't expect him to say less. To me Wayne is nice when he wants to be. But he's not bigger than Jay, Big or Pac. He never sold 10 million albums and he can't sellout a tour in 60 seconds. He's a star not a legend.
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Man what a fucking statement this nigga Baby must really have some good weed cause this shit is just blasphemy ........WAYNE better than BIG, AND PAC,,,,,,,,,,naaaaaaaaaaaaa son ,,,Wayne could be the better now, the best of the artist of today, i can accept saying that he is better than Jay but better than BIG,, no no no my nigga never in a lifetime
ok first off.. how are you gunna discredit Lil' Wayne for another man's actions? What baby shower does has nothing to do with wayne, im not knockin the story, because he sounds like a damn fool, and none of what hes sayin is, or ever will be true (big). Im tired of cats knockin his ability on the mic for his actions off and around it... let it go people
exactly on point wayne didnt even say it, an the wayne-haters that dnt like wayne because of his PERSONAL life i mean cmon it aint got shyt 2 do wit his mic skills big daddy kane posed fukin naked 4 a magazine! but nobody wont discredit dat man cus he a legend wayne does a lotta mickey ass shyt(aka-crazy ass shyt-jus sum toledo slang) but he a beast on the mic when given one
0K GUYS, MAYBE HE TOOK IT A LITTLE 2 FAR....B-U-T WAYNE IS DA HOTTEST NIGGA OUT. N IF HE CHOOSE 2 CALL HIMSELF DA BEST, LET DA NIGGA FUKIN BREATH, HE GOT HIS RIGHTS!!!! BESIDES, I WOULD LOVE 2 SEE JAY N WAYNE BATTLE A-N-Y-D-A-Y! I GOT MY SAVINGS ON.................? L0L. HAHAHAHA. NAH, JAY IS A LEGEND 4 DA OLDER CROWD, WEEZY DOES IT 4 DA YOUNGER GENERATION I THINK. DEY R BOTH DA ILLEST SO FUK IT!
Lil Wayne sucks he's NOT better then Big and tupac and jay-z or nas hes NOT better then Game.
Top 5 all time
2Pac Biggie Jay-Z Nas Eminem point blank period
wayne must be really good for baby to say that
FIRST OD ALL..DO THAT WEEZY GOT A CLASSIC ALBUM SO HOW HE FUCKIN THIS FAGGOT SAID HES BIRD GONNA COMPARE HIM WIT HOVA EVEN PAC OR BIGGIE..DONT MIND HIM FAM HES PROLLY HIGH OR SOMETHING..
Baby Should Lay OFF tha Crack
FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY
yo i got mad luv for illseed usualy but this dont judge wayne on his off mic shit HIP HOP AINT WHAT WE DO ITS WHAT WE EAT LIVE AND SLEEP so all he do should be watched he got talent but the best come on loon would rip him up
you're absolutley right. I dont have an ounce of respect in my body for lil' wayne, but i'm not gunna lie to myself he has created so much buzz, and delivered on countless occasions. If he didn't wreck the mic so often I wouldn't even bother fending, but he does... and if Jay can hook lil' wayne on a project even after their differences, than I can look both ways and call a spade a spade and let the man drop his music.. if the carter 3 is classic I don't want to hear cats saying they dont fuck with it because he kisses men, fucks around with superhead... etc etc... judge the material and not the man.
yall got to be the stupidest motherfuckers alive he didnt say better he said bigger
yall so fucking stupid yall only hear what yall wanna hear