Above, Lil Wayne explains Drake‘s absence from the “I Am Still Music” tour and confirms that he will be touring overseas after the NBA finals this summer.

In a recent interview with MTV News’ Sway, Wayne once again explained Drake’s absence and understood from the fan’s standpoint how his protégé’s omission from the tour looked from the outside, sympathizing with the speculative remarks of Young Money supporters. “That’s just due to this world we live in today,” said the Young Money captain. “Because I remember back in the days when if someone wasn’t on tour then the first thing we’d think was they were doing a movie or they were doing something else that was productive.”

Wayne went on to add, “Nowadays if you don’t see somebody in the picture, then it’s ‘Oh, he’s leaving’ and he’s this and “Oh Wayne, you’re mad at this person’ and I don’t even deal with it man. I just get my money and call the shots.” – MTV

R&B singer Amerie recently updated fans on her “Heard ‘Em All” Lil Wayne collaboration and said his “disappearance” from the accompanying music video was partially due to his newborn child with Lauren London.

In addition to the video, Amerie also explained her respect for the self-proclaimed ‘Greatest Rapper Alive’.

“He definitely is [going to appear in the video],” Amerie told interviewer Lola Plaku. “We just have to do that shot, which we’ve been trying to do — and he just had a baby and he has another baby coming soon, we of course don’t know what day is going to be so [sighs] hopefully it goes — no I’m not going to say hopefully it goes down; it is going to go down…Lil Wayne is great. I’ve liked him since he was with Cash Money…I’ve always liked what he does, and I love his energy. For me it was just awesome working with him. Of course I like the stuff that he’s done recently as well, but he’s just really into the artistry. He’s really into being an artist and I think that’s awesome. Because sometimes people are into the life, but not into the art of it.” (SOHH)

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