I have decided to share scans from Lil Wayne‘s cover story for the April 2008 issue of The Source magazine for #ThrowbackThursday today, which took place during a recording session on his tour bus for “Let The Beat Build” and “Lollipop” off Tha Carter III.

In his interview, Weezy spoke on his recording process, ghostwriting for Dr. Dre, being born to rap, why he is the best rapper alive, and shared his thoughts on people saying he is doing too many drugs.

“Everybody talking ’bout ‘the boy on too much drugs, Baby need to take him to rehab’ and all this shit. I want you to know one thing: a junkie can’t do what the fuck I do. Can’t no drug, can’t no bitch, can’t no money faze me. I am the ultimate high. It ain’t what I’m on, it’s what I do, and making great music is what the fuck I do.”

Tune also talked to C. Vernon Coleman II about playing the guitar, believing every album he has put out is a classic, his daughter Reginae Carter, owning all of his publishing and masters, and more!

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Lil Wayne has donated a wheelchair accessible van to Jacob Blake, who was shot and paralyzed from the waist down by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin 6 weeks ago.

Jacob‘s father recently appeared on “The Dr. Oz Show” and talked about how his son’s favorite rap artist is Wayne, as well as how Weezy made a special phone call to them that made Blake cry.

You can watch Jacob Blake‘s pops discuss the emotional call in a video after the jump below. Good deed Tunechi!

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Episode 9 took place on Friday night (June 26th) of Lil Wayne‘s “Young Money Radio” show, which included special guests Jadakiss, Fabolous, Jack Harlow, Anuel AA, Gudda Gudda, Juelz Santana, Usher, Mannie Fresh, and Michael Thomas. You can check out videos of all of these conversations below.

During this show, Wayne chopped it up with both Kiss and Fab at the same time about how their families are doing, their latest projects, stories of the last collaborations they all did together (Jada says Tunechi finished his “Death Wish” verse before he finished rolling up), sending new music, and more. He chatted with Jack about their new “What’s Poppin” remix, his recent project, his influences, a t-shirt that has Tune‘s face on which he wears regularly, and protests in his hometown of Louisville.

Weezy also spoke with Double G about his new song “It Ain’t Ok” and his upcoming album “Lord Gudda“, with AA about his musical influences growing up, his Emmanuel album, getting locked up, his wife Karol G, soccer and possibly shooting a video for their “Ferrari” collaboration, with Usher about the importance of voting, his editorial in The Washington Post about making Juneteenth a national holiday, new single “I Don’t Cry” and a story involving Lil Twist, and lastly with New Orleans Saints’ wide receiver Michael Thomas about other WRs in the NFL, 21 Savage, NBA YoungBoy, plus much more!

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For episode 24 of Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson‘s “All The Smoke” podcast, they had Lil Wayne as the special guest and chopped it up with him for around 25-minutes. At the start of the video, Stack called Wayne the “best rapper of all time” and his “favorite rapper” while towards the end, Matt mentioned he named one of his sons “Carter” after Tha Carter III album.

During their conversation, which you can watch below, Weezy spoke on how his family are currently doing with this coronavirus lockdown, how he has “been self-quarantining for years”, his mother Cita and brother Semaj being in New Orleans where the virus is “really bad” at the moment, N.O. legend 5th Ward Weebie possibly passing away from this virus, and maybe recording a theme song for “All The Smoke“.

Tunechi also revealed he is hitting the studio up everyday while in lockdown, has an unreleased song with a bar saying “ballin’ like Stack Jack”, his sports knowledge comes from his grandma Mercedes Carter, he used to play American football back in the day, how Kobe Bryant made an impact on him, his current favorite NBA players, he is currently listening to Lil Baby, XXXTentacion and Young Dolph, and wanting to do a live concert from home with 5-6 unreleased songs!

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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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