Lil Wayne thinks André 3000 “feeling too old” to rap is super depressing, offering his own outlook on aging in the Hip-Hop industry.
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While talking to his guest, Tyga, during a recent episode of his Young Money Radio show, Wayne didn’t name names when he discussed his disheartened opinion on the matter, but made it quite clear who he was referring to.
“I read a depressing quote or two from someone that I respect a lot in Hip-Hop and music period,” Wayne said. “They would ask, ‘Why you ain’t been doing music,’ and they was like, ‘Man what am I gonna talk about? I’m in my 40s, like what am I going to talk about? What you want to know about me being 40 and the life I’m living?’ I was like that’s so depressing I have everything to talk about.”
“I thought that may be a downfall of me staying in it because, you may at our age, you may hear what’s going on and feel 'I’m so out of that. I ain’t bout to drop nothing,'” he said. “So that’s why I say I don’t listen."
The quote in question comes from André 3000’s interview for GQ’s Man of the Year series, where he discussed why his new album, New Blue Sun, doesn’t include any raps, or lyrics at all, for that matter.
“It actually feels … sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don’t have anything to talk about in that way. I’m 48 years old,” André revealed. “And not to say that age is a thing that dictates what you rap about, but in a way it does," he added.
Responding to Lil Wayne point of view on André's sentiments, Tyga replied, “But I feel like that’s why you gotta stay in it, though. I feel like you can’t be too far removed.”
However Wayne disagreed, arguing that, at his age, trying to keep up with current music trends might be more creatively discouraging. “So that’s why I say I don’t listen,” he expressed, “I just go in my little hole. I love what I do. I just put it out and swing for the fences man.”