Before premiering “I Don’t Even Know You Anymore“, Netsky spoke to Zane Lowe on Beats 1 Apple Music’s radio show all about his new collaboration with Lil Wayne and Bazzi.

The Belgium music producer discussed why he got Tunechi and Bazzi on his new single, revealed it had been in the works for a while, and added that it was a “childhood dream” for both himself and the Michigan singer-songwriter to work with Tune.

You can check out everything that Netsky had to say, including calling Weezy “an icon and legend”, in a video after the jump below!

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Birdman recently sat down with Ebro for a one on one interview with Beats 1 radio to promote part 1 of his new documentary, “Before Anythang: The Story Behind The Cash Money Records Empire”.

As well as talking about the documentary, Baby also discussed his childhood, therapy, his relationship with Lil Wayne, how he first met Wayne, where the nicknames “Baby” and “#1 Stunna” came from, the biggest check he has ever received, legacy, and more.

“Me and my son had our differences, and that shit gon’ iron itself out, but still I gave that man a $100 million contract. One wire, press send, I was happy as fuck to be able to do that for Wayne, shoot him a $100 million.”

“I’m gon’ make sure he straight, we straight, and we gon’ continue doing what we started.”

You can listen to the 30-minute conversation after the jump below!

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Chedo from The Come Up Show caught up with Mannie Fresh earlier this month and chopped it up with him for over an hour on the latest episode of their weekly podcast.

Throughout the interview, Mannie spoke on Lil Wayne a numerous amount of times including why he always thought Wayne was a genius from a very young age, how Weezy felt at 17-years-old when Missy Elliott told him she enjoyed his music, trying to please Tunechi‘s mother with their music, Tune‘s childhood, Cash Money Records, “Bling Bling“, and plenty more.

You can listen to the full conversation after the jump below. Enjoy!

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Mannie Fresh recently took part in an interview with The FADER to share a lot of cool stories about Lil Wayne in the early days of his music career, which you can read in full below.

In the conversation, Mannie spoke on what it was like first meeting Wayne before he signed to Cash Money Records, the first time hearing him rap, his parents Cita and Rabbit, and the B.G.’z group consisting of Weezy and B.G.

Fresh also discussed witnessing Tunechi recording his “Fuck Tha World” track, recalled seeing him drinking, having no childhood, the Hot Boys studio sessions, Tune always trying to out-rap anyone on a song, and plenty more!

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We first heard this interview earlier this month, and now we can watch Mannie Fresh‘s 1 hour-and-a-half conversation with Thedo and MAQ for their “DaTakeOver” podcast.

In the interview, Mannie discussed all about Lil Wayne, as well as the early Cash Money Records days, Turk being “messy”, Tha Carter V, Cash Money passing on Kanye West, how the real pop group Bee Gees stopped Weezy and B.G. from using their group name “B.G.’z”, who released an album called True Story in 1995, and more.

You can watch the full sit-down interview in a video after the jump below. Fresh also plays snippets of upcoming collaborations we can be looking out for from him and Tunechi including “Start This Shit Off Right” off Tha Carter V, an EDM song, and a “Big Ballin’” remix!

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