Wayne tells Binelli he knew he didn’t have raw vocal talent, but he dedicated himself to learning how to make his singing voice sound good on record. And then I said, ‘You know what? I’m not going to rap on this one.’ “īinelli follows Wayne from his posh Atlanta apartment to a club showcase where the MC checks out talent for his Young Money imprint to the studio - Wayne’s home away from home - where the superstar puffs his ever-present blunts and plays some Rebirth songs that recall vintage Beastie Boys and current emo, topped by Weezy’s Auto Tuned warbling. “I just got - I’m not going to say ’so good’ at what I was doing, but it became such a regularity for me that I got tired of it. Describing a wild night when he woke up in bed with three or four women he couldn’t name, Wayne reveals he had an epiphany. (Revisit Weezy’s journey from kid MC to superstar, in photos.) But aside from plucking at electric guitars onstage and in videos, Weezy never let on that his rap career could take such a significant detour.
“I’ve grown into this person.” He released his first album, 1999’s Tha Block Is Hot, when he was only 17, and built his name on being the busiest rapper in the game, dropping a relentless stream of mixtapes and cameos. “The rock shit just comes from what my life is now,” Wayne, 26, says. BusyWorkCloud A Bathing Ape adidas air force Air Force 1 air jordan Air Jordan 1 Air Jordan I alife asics Atmos Bape bbc Billionaire Boys Club BUSYWORKSHOP Casio chanel Clae Colette Converse CORE JEWELS Court Force Creative Recreation Crooks & Castles Dior Dior Homme dumpe fresh Dunk evisu Fila Fusion G-Shock Gourmet gucci ICE CREAM INSA jay-z jordan Kanye West kicks Lacoste Lakai Lanvin lego Levi’s Lil Wayne Louis Vuitton LRG Marc Jacobs Martin Margiela Milo NERD New Balance new era nigo Nike Nixon Original Fake Pastelle Patta pharell pharell williams Pharrell Pharrell Williams Puma Pump Reebok shoes Skytop SNEAKERS Solebox Spizike Stephen Sprouse Supra Swarovski Takashi Murakami.Accesories ART BOOKS CARS CLIP CLOTHES CULTURE DANSE Design DIVERS DJAYING ELECTRONICS events FOOD GAMES girls JEWELRY magazine MUSIC SNEAKERS Uncategorized