WHAT ABOUT ME “What About Me” is already a good f**king song adding Post Malone to it makes it borderline great. I think he’s in the studio right now, working on new stuff.Lil Wayne adds ten more songs to “Tha Carter V.” I’m interested to see what the future holds after this album cycle is done. His work ethic hasn’t changed from 2006 when he was doing all those mixtape features. I think now that they see how easy it is to just put music out and not have to get CDs made… Wayne is really the kind of artist who could drop an album every month if he wanted to. There’s so much Wayne music! This is really the first release Wayne has had since streaming took over. To finally see this shit out, I’m just super happy for him. I don’t even think this is work for him this is therapy for him, to go to the studio and rap. He’s going to the studio every day doing 12 hours of recording. It really fucked things up with Wayne, and seeing him go through what he went through… That dude never missed a studio session. Nah, it was just a bummer more than anything. Has this process impacted your overall process at all?
Two: the reaction was good, so that make things even better. Especially with four years of sitting there wondering if anyone’s ever gonna hear this song, or any of these songs. This is one of the rare times I really sat there when the project came out and listened to it beginning to end, and tried to enjoy it as a fan of music. When did I stop? Friday at midnight when the album was actually online. How did you feel when the album was officially announced? I always knew I would end up with something if the album came out. Me and Manny put all the mom skits into the songs.
I’ve always been someone they could call to do whatever. I’mma keep it real with you: I always know. We went through a whole lot of nerd processes to make it sound as amazing as possible.ĭescribe to me the moment you knew for certain you were on Tha Carter V. Once all the music was recorded, then we recorded to quarter-inch tape, then we recorded it back in. To the point where every reverb on the piece was replaced with a plate reverb. The amount of work that went into this production is more than I’ve done for anything. We replaced the plug-in pianos with real pianos. We built the new production around that theme. The main melody of the beat that’s playing in the background and the synth sounds, those are from the original beat. I believe he heard the final version-unless Wayne sent it to him beforehand-I think he heard his verse the way everybody else had, a couple days ago. Kendrick’s entire verse is completely reworked from he recorded to.
How different is the beat we hear today from the one you sent over? That’s like To Pimp a Butterfly-era Kendrick. When did Kendrick Lamar get on the track? Years went by of maybe it’s coming out, maybe it’s not. Before we even got a chance to touch the record, everything just got put on pause. And then that’s where the lawsuit happened. Wayne played me the whole thing, and it was a whole different ball game. I know Wayne and Kendrick linked up in the studio, and I wasn’t invited, which bummed me out.Ī couple days later, I heard Kendrick’s verse. Everybody was kinda like, “Maybe Nas would be crazy because it’s a storytelling song.” Omar was the one who said, “Kendrick would be cool.” Boom. Wayne was talking about trying to get a feature on the song. I heard it and I was like, “Oh, shit, this is crazy.” Then he did a second verse and at the time, his engineer was a dude named Omar Loya. He started writing to the beat, and it turned into the story.