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Hollywood Cole Talks Lil Wayne + Producing “B.B. King Freestyle”

Hollywood Cole Talks Lil Wayne + Producing BB King Freestyle For Him & Drake

Hollywood Cole recently chopped it up with HotNewHipHop for an interview on their “On The Come Up” series, which you can watch below.

In their conversation, Cole talked about producing the beat for Lil Wayne and Drake‘s “B.B. King Freestyle” that can be found on Side A of the No Ceilings 3 mixtape.

The producer also revealed Weezy‘s mixtapes were a big part of him first getting into music and that he would get Tune to spit a verse on his dream song! Do you still listen to “B.B. King Freestyle“?

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Bijan Amir Speaks On What It Was Like Producing For Lil Wayne On “Funeral” [Video]

Bijan Amir Speaks On What It Was Like Producing For Lil Wayne On Funeral

Bijan Amir sat down with Splice earlier this month for an interview all about how he got started and production advice.

The producer revealed it was Lil Wayne‘s Tha Carter III album that first got him into producing and inspired him to learn more about creating beats.

He also talked about how much of a “surreal” and “cool” moment it was to work with Wayne on Funeral by producing the “Bing James” beat featuring Jay Rock. Check out Bijan‘s full conversation below!

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Sarcastic Sounds Talks Producing Lil Wayne’s “Mahogany” Song & His Reaction To First Hearing It

Sarcastic Sounds Talks Producing Lil Wayne Mahogany Song & His First Reaction To Hearing It

Sarcastic Sounds, a 20-year-old producer from Toronto, recently chopped it up with DJ Booth for an interview.

During their conversation (read below), Sarcastic Sounds recalled how the very first rap song he heard was Lil Wayne‘s “Got Money” single featuring T-Pain.

The producer also discussed how he was approached to create Wayne‘s “Mahogany” beat on the Funeral album that involved some help from Mannie Fresh, as well as how he reacted to hearing it for the first time when it leaked on YouTube!

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Lil Wayne Chats To Mannie Fresh About Their Upcoming Collaboration Album On “Young Money Radio” [Video]

Lil Wayne Chats To Mannie Fresh On Young Money Radio About Their Upcoming Collaboration Album

In this post, you can find Lil Wayne‘s full conversation with Mannie Fresh that took place last Friday (June 26th) for episode 9 of his “Young Money Radio” show on Apple Music.

During their conversation (watch below), Weezy talked to Mannie about producing all of the songs on the Cash Money Records’ artist albums back in the day, his upcoming joint album with Bun B, and much more.

Tunechi and Fresh also discussed their forthcoming collaboration project, which could possibly be called Tha Carter/Fresh Files, as well as when they plan on releasing it (could be 2021) and having 7 songs completed for it already!

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STREETRUNNER Talks Being Sued Over “Playing With Fire”, Leaked Lil Wayne Songs, “I Can’t Feel My Face” & More

STREETRUNNER Talks Being Sued Over Playing With Fire, Leaked Lil Wayne Songs, I Cant Feel My Face & More

Kyle Kramer from Noisey chopped it up with STREETRUNNER earlier this month to chat with him about releasing the remastered versions of leaked Lil Wayne songs from 2006-2007 and how he thinks they were leaked in the first place.

The producer also talked talked about getting sued for “Playing With Fire” that ended up in the track being removed from Tha Carter III, the first time he met Tunechi at The Hit Factory Criteria Recording Studios in Miami, if Tune has changed as a person over the years, and wanting to release a Greatest Hits album of all the leaked Wayne songs.

STREETRUNNER even discussed producing Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana‘s “1 Arm“, what he remembers about the I Can’t Feel My Face era, personally wanting to hear the project over Rebirth, his reaction to first hearing Weezy was going to record a rock album, and more!

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