Big Sean recently complimented Lil Wayne on social media by saying he changed rap forever, and now he has done an interview with MTV to elaborate on his praise for Wayne.

The Detroit rapper talked about Weezy‘s verse on their collaboration “Deep“, revealed he used to ride to school bumping Dedication, Tha Carter and 500 Degreez, and mentioned he is “one of the biggest Lil Wayne fans in the world”.

Before they changed subject, Sean also added “and that Carter V on the way too, he told me to say that”, which is hopeful news! You can watch their conversation in a video after the jump below!

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Q-Tip recently took part in an interview with Noisey and during their conversation, he had some nice words to say about Lil Wayne:

“I love Wayne. I think he’s a fucking beast. He’s an ill lyricist. He’s a prodigy. I love to do stuff with him. And that’s my boy, too. We talk sports and all of that shit. Yeah man, he’s acutely intelligent. Highly intelligent, skilled. He’s just got so much soul. I could go on and on about him. He’s one of my favorites, as an MC, as a visionary—like, he’s just dope. He’s just so dope. He’s fucking brilliant… he’s just a cool motherfucker, man. He really is. He’s a special guy. And I really love, like, Tha Block Is Hot, 500 Degreez, all that early stuff, too.”

The two of them have previously collaborated on “Renaissance Rap” and “Thank You“. What are your thoughts on Tip‘s praise for Weezy?

Like everyone else, Kendrick Lamar does not want Lil Wayne to quit or retire from music! The Compton rapper, who had been drinking, recorded a public service announcement of himself talking to the camera about Wayne and rapping his old verses word for word at 5:30AM this morning.

K. Dot‘s reaction to hearing Tunechi wanted to leave hip-hop was “Fuck that!”, as well as shouted “No!” more than a few times. He also mentioned that he was in the studio working on features and he can remember Tune back in 2007-2008 knocking out “ten motherfucking features in a row… back to back”.

The old Weezy verses that Kendrick was rapping are: “Gangsta Shit” off 500 Degreez, “Ridin’” off Guerrilla Warfare, “Respect My Mind” off Guerrilla Warfare, and “Where You At” off 500 Degreez. You can check out the 3-minute-and-a-half clip after the jump below!

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Wild Wayne from New Orleans radio station Q93 recently spoke with Lil Wayne over the phone for an interview to promote his “Lil Weezyana Fest” that will be taking place next month.

During the 30-minute conversation, Weezy spoke on his Free Weezy Album, music being his life, if it ever gets difficult for him, getting advice from Juvenile during the early Cash Money days, trying to impress Juvie on songs instead of fans, calling Birdman’s work phone every day and rapping on the voice message, who his influences are, Baby not liking the idea of Sqad Up, naming his album 500 Degreez after Juvie dropped 400 Degreez, Young Thug trying to name his album Tha Carter VI, finding Nicki Minaj and Drake, getting texts from his idol Jay Z, and more.

Tunechi also revealed in the interview that Kevin Gates was signed to Young Money for a minute and that his own favorite songs from FWA are either “My Heart Races On” and “London Roads“. You can listen to the full conversation between Tune and Wild Wayne after the jump below!

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While at Tom Joyner’s 2015 Fantastic Voyage cruise just over a week ago, Global Grind chatted with Juvenile for an interview that you can read below.

During their conversation, Juvie confirmed that we can be looking forward to some new music from himself, Lil Wayne and Mannie Fresh to come in the future!

Juvenile also spoke on if he thinks Young Thug wanting to name his project “Tha Carter VI” is karma coming back to Weezy after he named his 2002 album “500 Degreez“, which was of course inspired by Juvie‘s “400 Degreez” album title.

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