Cool & Dre recently chopped it up with DJ Booth over the phone to share stories behind some of their biggest songs that they have produced.

One of these tracks that the production duo named as one of the biggest in their catalogue is Lil Wayne‘s “Phone Home” off his Tha Carter III album.

You can check out Cool & Dre reveal how “Phone Home” came about, which was during a recording session for DJ Khaled’s “We Takin’ Over” single, below.

The Miami producers also explain that the idea and start of Tunechi‘s Rebirth album came after creating this C3 song with Tune!

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Cool & Dre recently sat down with BET to appear on their “Rate The Bars: VS” series. This is where they rated lyrics from Lil Wayne‘s mixtapes and albums.

In the clip, the production duo rated lyrics from “Album Lil Wayne” and “Mixtape Weezy“, which included the songs: “Dedication 3“, “A Milli“, “Bank Account“, “I Am Not A Human Being“, “SportsCenter“, “Phone Home“, “Watch My Shoes“, “6 Foot, 7 Foot“, “Addictive“, and “Playing With Fire“.

You can check out Cool & Dre‘s ratings after the jump below! What do you personally prefer out of “Album Wayne” and “Mixtape Weezy“? Let me know in the comments section below!

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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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For Tha Carter III‘s tenth anniversary yesterday (June 10th), Dre from production duo Cool & Dre chopped it up with GRAMMY about producing on the iconic Lil Wayne album.

Dre told the story of how him and Wayne created “Phone Home” off the Grammy Award-winning album at The Hit Factory recording studio in New York.

You can read exactly what the producer said after the jump below! Was “Phone Home” one of your favorite songs off C3?

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Weezy drives and crashes a golf-cart, and then gets a lap dance from Nicki Minaj

We posted some photos from Lil Wayne‘s show at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida on April 5, and now we have some footage from the night! Hit the jump for the rest of the videos, and Wayne‘s next stop on the “I Am Still Music” tour will be tonight (April 8 ) in Greensboro, North Carolina at the Greensboro Coliseum.

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