Towards the end of last year, Lil Wayne‘s former RIAA-certified, multi-Platinum and Grammy award-winning recording engineer Mike Banger sat down with Art Morera to appear on episode 46 of the Media Noche Podcast.

If you didn’t already know, Mike has recorded and mixed numerous Tunechi projects including Tha Carter IV, Rebirth, I Am Not A Human Being 1 and 2, We Are Young Money, Sorry 4 The Wait, Dedication 4 and 5, and No Ceilings etc, as well as also produced a few songs for Tune.

In this 1 hour and 30 minute interview, Banger spoke about numerous things such as working with Lil Wayne, witnessing the pressure of Wayne having the “Best Rapper Alive” title, first starting as an intern for Mr. Carter around Tha Carter days (recalls buying him Popeyes in the middle of the night), and much more. The parts about Weezy start from the 19:40 mark and last throughout the whole conversation.

PS: “YM Banger” from I Am Not A Human Being was named after Mike Banger because he produced, recorded and mixed all of the song himself!

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Cory Gunz recently sat down with DJ Thoro and Hynaken for an interview with ThisIs50 to promote his upcoming project called Kriminal Minded.

At the start of their conversation, the Gunna confirmed he is still signed to Young Money and revealed that him and Lil Wayne have so much unreleased “fire” music, which Wayne is saving, but he does not know when the songs will drop.

Before the interview wrapped up, the YM artist also spat a freestyle for the camera. You can check it all out in the video after the jump below! Are you ready to hear some new Cory and Weezy?

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For the tenth anniversary of Tha Carter III on June 10th, Billboard asked a few of the people involved with the classic Lil Wayne album to speak all about it.

Producers Bangladesh, Play-N-Skillz, Dre from Cool & Dre, and David Banner, as well as singer Bobby V discussed how the C3 songs came together and what the album’s legacy is looking like.

You can check out everything what they all had to say below. My favorite story has to be Banner revealing how he originally created “La La” for the film Shrek, but Wayne was like: “Fuck Shrek! I want that!”

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Lil Wayne‘s “A Milli” single off his Tha Carter III album, which was produced by Bangladesh, officially turned 10-years-old on February 13th.

For it’s 10-year anniversary, the producer chatted to Complex all about the song, such as creating the beat, how it ended up in Tunechi‘s hands, the sample, his reaction to first hearing what Tune did over the instrumental (he wasn’t feeling it at first), the legacy of it, his thoughts on everyone freestyling over the beat, Cory Gunz being on the original version of the track, and more.

Hit the jump to read everything what Bangladesh said about Weezy‘s “A Milli” record. It seems like only yesterday when the original version of “A Milli” leaked!

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After all of the teasing, the wait is finally over for the sixth installment in Lil Wayne and DJ Drama‘s Dedication mixtape series.

Weezy has released part 1 of his Dedication 6 tape online, which consists of 15 songs with features from Baby E, Cory Gunz, Euro, Gudda Gudda, HoodyBaby, Nicki Minaj, and Zoey Dollaz.

You can stream D6, download the full project, and view the back cover with the full tracklisting on after the jump below. Merry Christmas everyone!

UPDATE: Part 2 of Tunechi’s Dedication 6 mixtape will include features from Drake, Future, Jay Jones, Juelz Santana, Lil Twist, Trippie Redd, and Vice Versa.

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The official tracklisting for Lil Wayne and DJ Drama‘s upcoming Dedication 6 mixtape has been released.

The first part of D6 will include 15 songs and features from Gudda Gudda, HoodyBaby, Nicki Minaj, Baby E, Euro, Cory Gunz, and Zoey Dollaz.

Dedication 6 will also include the “Bank Account” and “Blackin’ Out” freestyles, as well as remixes over Lil Uzi Vert’s “XO Tour Llif3” and Rich The Kid’s “New Freezer“.

There will be a second part of D6 dropping at a later date, which I’m sure will include the song with Future and Juelz Santana, a track with Lil Twist, a track with Vice Versa, and a “DNA” remix. I’ll make a post about that next.

You can check out the back cover for Weezy‘s Dedication 6 tape after the jump below. Be sure to check back to LilWayneHQ.com tomorrow after your Christmas dinner to stream and download the project! What are your current thoughts on the D6 tracklist?

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