We all saw the full interview last month, and now Emmanuel Acho has released a behind the scenes video of how his “Uncomfortable Conversation” with Lil Wayne came about.

In the bonus clip (watch below), Emmanuel shares the story of how he first got word Tunechi wanted to speak to him about mental health and wanting to commit suicide at a young age.

Weezy then explains he admired seeing how Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka battled and fought their mental health issues and figured he would do the same even if it helped just one person!

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On Friday night when everyone was praising Lil Wayne‘s verse on Drake’s “You Only Live Twice” song, Wayne was spotted meeting Japanese professional skateboarder Yuto Horigome.

Tunechi and Horigome, who recently won Gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, had a skateboarding session together in Los Angeles, California.

You can check out some footage and photos from their skating sesh after the jump below, as well as a clip of Yuto letting Weezy hold his gold medal!

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Michael Phelps has been killing the Rio 2016 Olympics this summer and before his swimming races, he is seen listening to music through his custom Beats headphones.

During a live Facebook broadcast a few days ago, the American swimmer confirmed he has been listening to some old Lil Wayne music before his races, such as songs like “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy” to which he also mentioned that his son Boomer has a shirt which says “Stunting Like My Daddy” on it.

It’s no secret that the greatest Olympic swimmer is a fan of Tunechi as back in 2008 he also revealed that his go-to song was “I’m Me“. Tune also dedicated his “No Quitter, Go Getter” track to Phelps and gave him an iPod full of unreleased music.

You can watch Michael Phelps‘ full live broadcast after the jump below. He discusses the music he has been listening to this time around before his races at the 6:00 mark!

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Gabby Douglas recently told MTV at the premiere of Justin Bieber’s Believe documentary that she listens to a lot of Lil Wayne and Drake music while she works out and trains. The Olympic Gold Medalist also explained that Weezy and Drizzy‘s music gets her hyped, but she only listens to the clean versions of their rap songs.

“A lot of rap music. Lil Wayne and Drake, the edited versions of course, but it gets me really hyped up.”

If you didn’t already know, Gabby Douglas is the very first African American gymnast to win a solo Olympic gold medal. In 2012, Wayne also tweeted how proud he was of Gabby for winning her medal: “Glad i lived to see what Gabby Douglas did in the Olympics. Icon.”

Lil Wayne just called into DJ Drama‘s Hot 107.9 radio show to talk about his upcoming mixtape, Dedication 4. Wayne said he will release the tape on August 15th and named three instrumentals that he has already rapped over, which are “Burn“, “Cashin’ Out” and “I Don’t Like“!

They also talked about Tune‘s own three favorite mixtapes (SQ6, Dedication 2 and No Ceilings), explained what “Mixtape Weezy” means to himself, the criticism Dedication 3 received, the success of his Young Money artists Drake, Nicki Minaj and Tyga, says he will be attending the 2012 MTV VMAs this year, 2 Chainz, the 2012 Olympics, skateboarding, B.G.’s jail sentence, says the rumors about J. Prince Jr. suing YM about Drake are false, and more.

“Shout out Nicki ass”