For the second anniversary of Juice WRLD‘s unfortunate death a few days ago, his record label Grade A Productions released his second posthumous album called Fighting Demons.

In an interview with Complex magazine, Grade A Productions founder Lil Bibby and Juice‘s manager Jideonwo revealed they tried to get a Lil Wayne sample cleared for the new project.

However, Bibby explained he was unable to clear a sample from Wayne‘s interview with Emmanuel Acho about mental health and it wasn’t Weezy or Acho who blocked this from happening, it was the studio who owns the content.

You can read what the two of them had to say about trying to include a Tunechi sample on Juice WRLD‘s Fighting Demons album after the jump below! Would you have liked to hear a WRLD song presumably about mental health with a Tune sample?

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Kidd Kidd recently chopped it with Mikey T The Movie Star for a virtual interview with Report Card Radio.

During their conversation, Kidd spoke all about his “Ejected” single featuring Lil Wayne and why there was not a big push behind it, as well as why there was no music video.

The former Young Money and Sqad Up member also mentioned 50 Cent was interested in having “Ejected” himself and revealed Fiddy had called up Birdman to personally clear Wayne‘s verse. Check out everything what Kidd said below!

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Mack Maine recently chopped it up with Complex to share some details about Lil Wayne‘s brand new album, Funeral, which you can read in full below.

During their interview, Mack confirmed that Weezy was more involved with this project, they have already shot a music video for “Mama Mia” that is being directed by Mike Ho, there was a feature from DaBaby that didn’t make Funeral because of a clearance issue, and there was even a collaboration with Young Thug that was left off the album because Thug wanted to record fresh vocals.

The Young Money President also revealed why Funeral was a few hours late with its release, how he picked the tracklist for the project, how their relationship with XXXTentacion‘s family developed, why Tunechi first thought 21 Savage was a group, his vision for YM this decade, who is currently on the record label, Nicki Minaj‘s upcoming album, and much more!

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Damian Lillard was the special guest on episode 71 of Elliott Wilson and Brian “B.Dot” Miller’s Rap Radar Podcast with TIDAL.

During their interview at around the 19:45 mark, which you can watch below, Dame discusses first meeting Lil Wayne and working with him in the studio (says Wayne sent him multiple songs).

The rapper/NBA player also revealed that the first project he ever bought was Wayne‘s Tha Block Is Hot album, what his friendship with Tunechi is like, and what happened over Birdman/Cash Money not clearing Tune‘s verse on “Loyal To The Soil“!

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Last month, Rick Ross stopped by HOT 97 to appear on their “Ebro In The Morning” radio show to chat with Peter Rosenberg and Laura Stylez, as well as to promote his latest album, Port Of Miami 2.

Around the 16:00 mark, Ross was asked why Pusha T did not appear on his and Lil Wayne‘s “Maybach Music VI” collaboration to which he revealed that both teams cleared their verses. However, he didn’t think it was the right time to put both of them on a song together:

“What’s so dope about it is that both verses were cleared from both parties, but like I said, it was more about the bigger picture. Is this gonna move them two getting together closer? And I didn’t feel like this was the time for that.”

After talking about “Maybach Music VI” (watch the full interview below), Rozay brought up how he would like to see a collaboration from Wayne, Drake, Kanye West and Pusha drop next year! Could you see a collabo like that ever happen?

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