The finale season 6 episode of TV One‘s “Uncensored” series aired on May 7th and it was all about Lil Wayne.

In the show, Tunechi sat down with Missy Elliott to talk about growing up in Hollygrove, his little half-brother Semaj, his late stepfather Rabbit, being raised by his grandmother Mercedes, shooting himself at a young age, the late Uncle Bob who saved his life, giving him a job in New Orleans promoting Young Mula, and thinking Uncle Bob had passed away earlier than what he did (Tune mentioned it on his “London Roads” song and in an awards speech).

Weezy also discussed what made him want to form Young Money, recording over 100 features alone in 2007, his inspirations, how he came up with “Bling Bling“, his experience in Rikers Island, the state of hip-hop right now, his children, what he wants his legacy to be, and much more. Check it all out in the video below, enjoy!

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As it is #ThrowbackThursday today, here is a rare Lil Wayne interview from back in 2002 when he was just 19-years-old and around the time he was releasing his 500 Degreez album.

In their conversation, Weezy speaks on how his “Way Of Life” single featuring Birdman and TQ is the very first song on Cash Money Records to have a sample, his Mercedes G-Wagon 500, loyalty, and much more.

Tunechi also discusses his mother Cita giving him his very first little brother on March 29th (Semaj) and being inspired by Bone to braid his hair. You can check our this rare interview after the jump below, enjoy!

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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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I previously posted plenty of pictures just under 3 weeks ago, and now the latest episode of Elliott Wilson and TIDAL‘s “Car Test” series with Lil Wayne is available on YouTube.

Throughout the episode, which you can check out after the jump below, Wayne can be seen chatting to Elliott while driving around Miami in a Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG 6×6 and listening to his brand new album, Funeral.

In their conversation, Weezy talked about wanting to keep his Rebirth album series going with the “Funeral” title, including songs that he recorded years ago on Funeral, why he still does intros, outros and skits on his projects, and confirmed he is still working on his forthcoming Velvet album.

Tunechi also spoke on learning how to create hooks after Mannie Fresh and Juvenile used to do them for him back in the day, trying to pay attention to new generation rappers, how his collaboration with The-Dream came about on “Sights And Silencers“, and much more!

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In this post, you can check out episode 2 and episode 1 of Lil Wayne in “The Bumbu Room“, which is where he answers fan-submitted questions that are unique.

For episode 2, Weezy explains why he would choose Nike over Adidas, why he doesn’t mess with Bentley, which place in the world has the hottest women and hottest strippers, having Shaq over Tim Duncan, and more. He also told a story of dressing up as Michael Jackson when he was a kid with his grandmother’s wigs.

The debut episode included Tunechi revealing if he has ever ashed a blunt on a booty, what HoodyBaby does with big booties, why he would choose real asses over fake asses, why he would rather run everywhere than yell every time he spoke, how many side bitches are appropriate, and more. He even picked Nicki Minaj over Rihanna and Kobe Bryant over Michael Jordan!

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