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Lil Wayne Chats To Birdman, Chris Brown, August Alsina, 2 Chainz, Omar Jahwar, Brett Berish & Aaron Jones For Episode 12 Of “Young Money Radio” [Videos]

Lil Wayne Chats To Birdman, Chris Brown, August Alsina, 2 Chainz, Omar Jahwar, Brett Berish & Aaron Jones For Episode 12 Of Young Money Radio

The finale episode of season 1 of “Young Money Radio” took place on July 17th that included Lil Wayne chopping it up with special guests Birdman, Chris Brown, August Alsina, 2 Chainz, Bishop Omar Jahwar, Brett Berish, and Aaron Jones.

Weezy chatted with August about his new “stateofEMERGEncy: The Rise Of August Alsina” documentary, his new The Product III: State Of Emergency album, their “Resent” collab, and if he still misses plus loves Jada Pinkett Smith. He even conversed with the CEO of Bumbu, with the Green Bay Packers’ running back, and with Bishop O about the Heal America Tour, the OGU program and got a surprise appearance from Deion Sanders.

Also on episode 12 (watch it all below), Tunechi spoke with Breezy about his new joint Slime & B project with Young Thug, his top 3 artists of all time, his clothing line Black Pyramid and basketball, as well as with Chainz about his “Most Expensive Shit” show before they hint at shooting a new music video in a week or so – possibly for ColleGrove 2?

Before the episode came to an end on Apple Music, Wayne talked with Baby about the early days of Cash Money Records, how Ronald “Slim” Williams is doing, which music artists they think will have longevity in the game, how Cash Money stayed strong for so many years, sports, and confirmed a Like Father, Like Son 2 collaboration album as the #1 Stunna wants to have that as his farewell project before he makes an official retirement from rapping!

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Lil Twist Reveals Why Lil Wayne Stopped The Release Of His Debut Album & Recalls The Early Days Of Young Money [Video]

Lil Twist Reveals Why Lil Wayne Stopped The Release Of His Debut Album & Recalls The Early Days Of Young Money

Lil Twist recently sat down with Real Lyfe Starz for a one on one 40-minute interview that you can check out below.

During their conversation, Twizzy recalled the early days of his career, how he got signed to Young Money, Gudda Gudda giving his artist Fooly Faime a bit of Molly (Ecstasy) before an awards show, and shared a story involving Drake and Degrassi headshots on set of Lil Wayne‘s “A Milli” video shoot.

The Young Money artist also talked about why Wayne stopped his debut album Don’t Get It Twisted from ever being released, how he became a part of the “Growing Up Hip Hop” cast, wanting to get Nicki Minaj on his upcoming Young Carter 2 project, having a Weezy feature on it, and much more!

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Mannie Fresh Recalls Seeing Lil Wayne Drinking, Recording “Fuck Tha World”, His Parents & More

Mannie Fresh Recalls Seeing Lil Wayne Drinking, Recording Fuck Tha World, His Parents & More

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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