This video works for people outside of the USA as well.
In the rapper’s upcoming “Behind the Music” special, set to air September 10 on VH1, he talks openly about scrapping his rhyme books during a furious recording session, where he transformed from Cash Money’s young sidekick to the label’s heavyweight superstar.
“The only way I won’t be able to rap anything I’ve written again is to record everything I’ve ever written before once,” he explained of what led to his now notebook-free style.
The result was a 35-minute freestyle called “10,000 Bars,” on which Wayne’s disjointed rhymes, parts of various working songs, become a cathartic release and set the tone for his memorable mixtape run and a series of Carter albums.
“That changed Wayne as an artist,” his longtime manager, Cortez Bryant, said.
I think this is crazy how Wayne doesn’t write nothing down anymore and it just shows how great of an artist he actually is. Also, I can’t wait for this “Behind the Music” to air on 10th September.
Shouts to MTV
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 am
Tez looks funny with his glasses lol
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 am
Tez always wears them
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:24 am
Anyone know where I can download this 10,000 bars song? Thx
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:26 am
CANT WAIT FOR THIS AND YES ITS FUCKING OUTSTANDING HOW HE WRITES NOTHING DOWN
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:30 am
whats behind the music a serie or a move?
sorry:$
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:35 am
I wanna hear 10.000 bars yo. hahahahaha that shit must be fire
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:38 am
I’m pretty sure they talking about the SQ7 tape
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 am
Actually, I think the “10 000 bars” is a mixtape called Before The Carter
September 2nd, 2009 at 12:47 am
10, 000 Bars is the SQ7 Tape. DL it here http://www.datpiff.com/Sqad_Up_Lil_Wayne_SQ7.m1888.html
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:00 am
whas that SQ7 for carter 1 ?
it looks like it could be the 10000 barz tape cuz its all freestyle and i think it is like 35 minutes long
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 am
but it says 10000 barz was just 1 freestyle and this ones are all little freestyles
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:39 am
come on i know u can get a longer video of dis
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:51 am
I need to get my hands on that track.
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:56 am
@ L.I.L 10,000 bars wasn’t freestyles they were verses he wrote down and spit off paper on different beats until he ran out of verses thats why they’re split up
September 2nd, 2009 at 1:59 am
okay so the SQ7 tape is 10000 barz?
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:55 am
Greatest Rapper in HISTORY…not alive
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:05 am
man wayne is a genous thats my motherfuckin nigga i been fuck with wayne since hot boys
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:46 am
I used to have the 10,000 bars tape back in 2002, but it was recorded way back in 2000 . He did this before 500 degreez and before carter 1. He was only 18 years old, I remember hearing him say his age. And the original 10,000 bars freestyle wasn’t broken in different tracks, it was all one long freestlye and as the beats kept changing he kept rapping… I must say, I never heard anybody else do that before, and the fact that he was only 18 is crazzzy
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:33 am
I used to respect wayne. He put out all those mixtapes & came with hard ass lyrics. But not enough people know he had a ghost writer since he was 16. We’ll never know what he actually “wrote”. He was caught “freestyling” his album a while back. Everyone was rapping along as he “freestyled”.
sad to say, but wayne’s just an image
September 2nd, 2009 at 6:41 am
ii cant wait to c dis…
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:09 am
A week tomorrow ya digg
September 2nd, 2009 at 2:27 pm
i cant wait for the show
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Icant wait c show on sept.11
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:18 pm
hes a beast dogg!..jus amazing THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE!
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:14 pm
wow wayne is on another level how can u freestyle and remember all of these songs its just crazy
September 2nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I also read in an interview, about 4 months ago, of lil wayne that he said:
i don’t believe in the bible, because nothing that’s written down is to be believed.
that means he be talkin the truth when he’s spitting, but somethings don’t make sense,
he said that he never killed somebody but in songs he talks about that he kills people etc.
that’s what i find so strange..
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:19 am
they spit them all up. . . but he didnt stop the whole time(they just kept playin instrumentalz one after a nother, cause he says”idk this was up next nd then gets off”)
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:20 am
split*
September 4th, 2009 at 2:51 am
jus to let u niggaz knw gay-z never writes his lyrics down either and hes been doing it alot longer than wayne fyi
September 5th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
How can ya’ll say your Wayne fans and not have heard 10,000 thats when i knew it was over even after hotboys i had my doubts. Wayne needs ta do it again after a min of slacking songs hopefully forever can bring him back cuz he went in. if u aint hear 10,000 i suggest you download it ur gunna need alot of time he spits some real shit
September 8th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
MAYBE SUMDAY…LIL WAYNE WILL BE IN THE LEVEL OF EMINEM ND STUFF…AND MAYBE HE CAN BE CONSIDERED AS THE BEST RAPPER EVER TOO
September 17th, 2009 at 3:08 am
man listin.!
10,000 bars is some hard shitt.! but writinq music down is what held him back.!
Lil Wayne has crazy lyrics in many sonqs.! and name one that dosent make sence and I’ll prove it does.!
Lil wayne is a rapper, no Lil wayne is THE rapper…he hasnt even ben in the qame that lonq…but yet…he’ll murder your favorite artist.!
eminem, kanye, 50, anybody.!
Lil wayne’ll kill em.!
he’s the realest, illest, baddest, and best rapper alive
point blank period.!