Similar to every year before “Lil Weezyana Fest“, Lil Wayne phoned into Wild Wayne from New Orleans radio station Q93 a few days ago to promote his upcoming 5th annual music festival that will be taking place on September 7th.

During their conversation, Wayne chatted about the growth of his “Lil Weezyana Fest” as it has changed to a bigger location for this year and it will include a jazz tribute, carnival food, rides and 2 stages at the upcoming concert, as well as how he wants his festival to be up there with the rest of the big festivals, such as Lollapalooza.

Tunechi then went on to list who is on his Young Money record label (doesn’t name Drake) and reveal he will release his Funeral album at the end of this year. He even mentioned that Funeral is done and it is now up to Mack Maine to pick a bunch of songs for the project and title them.

Also in the 17-minute conversation, Weezy discussed what he does to create new experiences, his Young Money Sports agency, Los Angeles Lakers, Green Bay Packers, and announced he has just partnered with video game company Ubisoft were he will be releasing funny commercials and ads for the Ghost Recon Breakpoint marketing campaign!

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We first got word of this collaboration last month and saw a preview of the collection earlier this month, and now more details about Lil Wayne‘s upcoming “Young Money” fashion line with clothing brand American Eagle have been announced.

For the back-to-school season, AE and Weezy will be releasing an exclusive 25-piece tie-dye and color-blocked collection of t-shirts, hoodies, shorts, jeans, socks, boxers, hats, chains, skate decks, and more. The price of these products will range from $8.00 to $100.00.

The collection will debut and drop next month on August 10th with American Eagle revealing the full line on July 30th. You will be able to find the items in all AE stores, as well as on their official online website. In a statement to WWD, Tune had the following to say about his latest clothing line:

“I know my fans wear and love the brand, so we came together to co-create a collection that blends my personality with American Eagle’s iconic style. We designed the AE x Young Money collection with purpose and pride. Whether it’s my music or my style, I have always used both as an outlet for creativity and to live my truth – without apologies. American Eagle gets it. The brand celebrates individuality and to me that’s something I want to be a part of.”

You can check out a commercial for Tunechi and American Eagle‘s new fashion collaboration after the jump below!

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Complex recently chopped it up with people that have worked with Lil Wayne on set of his commercials to see what it was like working with him.

Sara Gilbert, who is the Public Relations Manager for Sovereign Brands, talked about how Weezy acted as his own director to improve the scenes while on set of the Bumbu ads and the “A Word With Wayne” series:

“It must be from his experience being a professional for all of his adult life. He can hear something and put his own spin to it instantaneously. He might hear something upstairs or down the hallway-[maybe] someone shifted their weight and they have their keys in their pocket. He’ll stop and wait for the noise to clear and then he’ll resume or we’ll take it from the top. He doesn’t miss a stride, it doesn’t throw him off his game. The fact that he self-corrects, he’s directing himself, is amazing.”

Matt Aselton, who directed Tunechi in the commercials for Samsung, spoke on how his crew were unconvinced at first if Tune would be able to act the scenes, as well as how he reminds him of an athlete:

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I don’t why I’m only just seeing this as it was uploaded over 2 weeks ago, but here is another Samsung commercial starring Lil Wayne in called “Champagne Shopping” that was shot to promote how water-resistant the Galaxy S7 mobiles phones are.

In the ad, Weezy can be seen walking around a store pouring champagne on his Galaxy S7 before then buying some more bubbly to continue doing the same thing.

You can check out the new Samsung commercial after the jump below! Is this the funniest one yet?

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After performing live at Samsung’s 2016 Galaxy Life Fest during SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 12th, Lil Wayne chopped it up with Adweek for an interview about appearing in four Samsung commercials and the Apartments.com ad.

Weezy went into detail about why he loved shooting the commercials, wanting to do more advertisements in the future, appearing in the ads to hopefully get more brands to want to work with him rather than appearing in them as “Lil Wayne“, being part of the Super Bowl, and more.

You can read what Tunechi said after the jump below! Would you like to see Tune appear in more commercials?

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We have previously seen 3 teasers (here and here), and now Apartments.com have released their full official 1-minute Super Bowl commercial starring Lil Wayne, Jeff Goldbum, and an actor playing George Washington.

In the video, Jeff makes his way up to the roof of an apartment building while singing “Movin’ On Up” from The Jeffersons when he then meets Tunechi and George hanging out grilling burgers and beans (lol). Oh and don’t forget about Tune‘s signature apple pie!

You can watch the full hilarious commercial after the jump below. What do you think of it?

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