Wayne's career remains in legal limbo thanks to his drawn-out dispute with Cash Money Records.
T-Wayne comes at an interesting time for T-Pain and Lil Wayne. Cole.įeaturing a host of producers, the eight-track project includes a familiar-sounding beat from Bangladesh, the producer whose past work on "A Milli" made it one of Wayne's most successful singles. Dre's years-in-the-making Detox (which he finally killed for good with the release of Compton in 2015) and a rumored-but-unconfirmed collaboration between Kendrick Lamar and J. Rap Up reports that the photo was taken over a decade ago on Wayne's tour bus. In the history of lost and long-mythologized hip-hop albums, the T-Wayne project falls somewhere between Dr. Related: Fans Call Nicki Minaj, Drake, And Little Wayne’s Collab The Rebirth Of Real Hip Hop 'The 1st pic I ever took w the man that changed my life,' she wrote over a picture of she and the now 39-year-old together.
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Also available for free download on the artists' shared website, it's a nostalgic rewind to an era when both T-Pain and Lil Wayne were at the apex of their careers. T-Wayne - his once-promised collaborative project with Lil Wayne, originally set to drop around 2009 - is finally live on Soundcloud. T-Pain just unleashed a real rap unicorn. "The object in the mirror is more near than it appears, oh s-t/And sometimes I fear who in the mirror/That n-a weird/He done died so many times but still here/Why am I here?/Here/Life/What is my meaning? My reason?" asks.Īs for fame, Lil Wayne tackled the subject in "Famous," rhyming, "You probably thought that my career, be short and sweet/You wish that I was in your shoes, I'd take them off 'cause life's a beach/And superstars don't sparkle, we shine deep/And you can't spell fame, without me/And may my Hall of Fame speech be short and sweet/Like "Thank God, f-k fame and thank me."Īs he continued, "Never question myself unless I ask am I dreamin'/The fan mail and subpoenas, jail cells to arenas/Car wash to the cleaners, Walmart to Neiman's/They told me time would tell/I told time to kiss my a- and I heard can you look this way?/Can you look this way?/Flash! I must be famous.T-Pain and Lil Wayne are T-Wayne. On "Open Letter," the rapper addressed his fans while contemplating his purpose.
The star also referenced his reported "lean" use, rapping on "Don't Cry," "I sip from the fountain of youth/So if I die young, blame the juice." "I found my mama's pistol where she always hide it/I cry, put it to my head and thought about it/Nobody was home to stop me, so I called my auntie/Hung up, then put the gun up to my heart and pondered/Too much was on my conscience to be smart about it/Too torn apart about it, I aim where my heart was pounding/I shot it, and I woke up with blood all around me/It's mine, I didn't die, but as I was dying/God came to my side and we talked about it/He sold me another life and he made a prophet."Īccording to Billboard, Lil Wayne mentioned the incident on previous songs, but this is the first time that he's acknowledged it was not an accident and that it happened after his mother told him he would not be allowed to rap. On "Let It All Work Out," the rapper revisited the moment he attempted suicide at 12 years old. He touched on his impoverished beginnings in "Can't Be Broken," rapping, "In 1982, my momma take me to a space shuttle/Say now I'm raising you and ain't no baby food/Unless you go and take the neighbors' food." From drug use and suicide to stardom and meaning, Lil Wayne certainly had a lot to say.