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Drake Recalls Visiting Lil Wayne In Prison
‘There’s a whole world moving out there that he hasn’t seen for so long,’ Drizzy tells MTV News.
When Drake visited Lil Wayne last week in Rikers Island, it was an experience like no other.
“It was just not the country club,” Drake told MTV News on Tuesday, the day his debut album, Thank Me Later, was released. “It wasn’t his Miami condo. It wasn’t Atlanta. It wasn’t Tree Sound Studios, all the places I’m used to seeing him. It wasn’t Club Liv in Miami. It wasn’t any of them.”
Drake has tried to wrap his head around Wayne‘s situation in prison. It’s been difficult, but he did grasp some jewels from their visit.
“He kept looking to the window,” Drizzy described. “He’d look up at the window almost like he’s looking right through it. It’s frosted, so you can’t see out. I was like, ‘Why does he keep staring through the window? There’s nothing out there.’ To him, there’s a whole world moving out there that he hasn’t seen for so long. He was just like, he told me something I never thought I’d hear him say, which was, ‘You’re the ultimate artist. You’re better than me. You don’t have the tattoos, you don’t cause any trouble. People like you.’ He was like, basically, ‘Look at me and look at you.’
“He was like, ‘Man, listen. You know what I think you’re about to do? You’re about to do 2 million,’ ” Drake recalled, echoing Wayne‘s sentiments from last week’s “Nino Brown Story, Pt. 3″ preview. ” ‘You’re about to do 2 million the first week.’ ”
Drake thought back to a conversation they previously had, when the Toronto native wanted to get a tattoo; Weezy advised against it.
” ‘Whatever, man, whatever you do, do not get no tattoos never in your life,’ ” Drake recalled Wayne telling him. ” ‘They gonna think you got it because you came around me.’ He said the same thing to me [during the Rikers visit]: ‘Don’t change yourself, please. You got it. I’ve never met a young dude that has it figured out, but you got it. Don’t mess it up. Just be you. Sing! Rap! Be you. Don’t stop smiling.’ That’s what he said.”
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some deep shit
yea an first
real talk. wayne does hear what people say bout him and there are parts of himself he doesnt like. he is alot deeper than people give him credit for. so to all the haters, stop hatin.
Damn, wezzy said drake was better than him does this mean drake is best rapper alive?
Or was prison gettin to em?
Free wezzy
ps. Drake n Wayne good friends
Free wayne. Love wayne.
“You’re better than me. You don’t have the tattoos, you don’t cause any trouble. People like you.”
that is true. a lot more people like drake then they like wayne. a LOT
Drake is good but wayne is the best alive. Free Wayne
stop the hate, improve yourself before attacking someone you dont know. wayne knows himself and hes changing and hes changed more than we know while hes been in prison. let him be, hell be new when he comes out of there. waynes seen so much that drake can only imagine, he should take that as a huge compliment coming from wayne. people like drake because hes commercial. they play decent drake on the radio, whereas for wayne all they play is his features with commercial artists. thats someone wayne will never be, a commercial artist. hes more than that, he has the talent. drake has mad talent too, but waynes untouchable and he changed the rap game forever. drake can only dream of doing that.
i agrre with u so musch
just once again shows that the system can hurt you, and take away valuable time from your life, Even if your a decent person, not even committing any act of violence or true crime yet he gets months in jail in the prime of his life. FUCK New York, and every person in NY that puts up with their draconian gun control laws that are clearly biased and targeted.
greatest advice ever that can be given to someone like drake
FreeWayne Drizzy is HipHop
Im with wayne Drake is the truth!!
O’Wow There Both Good.
Yet Lil’wayne Is Still The,
BEST RAPPER ALIVE!
FREE WEZZZZZY! ♥
I’m with Wayne. Drake has delievered from the very beginning from his career. Wayne took a while to develop. Drake has a long ways to go and has had amazing success. He can only get better. If he stays true, he’ll be a top tier rapper than will always be remembered…and just because he’s commercial does not mean he can’t be better than Wayne. Whether rappers like to admit it or not, they would all love to be commercial and at the tip of everyone’s tounge. I’m sure its an amazing feeling that everyone in the industry is itching to feel. It just so happens that Drake is the perfect balance. Like J. Cole said, he’s nice and charismatic to be liked by mainstream(white america) but clever and witty enough to be hip-hop.
young mula babbiie luv it
i Love When Lil Wayne Talks About Deep Things Like That, But Drake MayBe A Better Person, But Lil Wayne Is Still My Favorite Person No Matter What
this shxt touched me , (:
WAAAY TOO FUCKIN RAW
damn tunechi is deep
wayne is the tightest person ever and this proves it. he’s so deep and smart and people dont give him credit for it. the is no comparison to wayne. he’s his own unique genius and i honestly don’t think most people understand him. Drake is tight an everything but far different from wayne. if more people understood wayne there would be much less hating on him. he’s special man….
To Drake that some real shit wayne told you don’t need the tattoos you got everything. And To Police FREE Weezy Right NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!
this gave me goose bumps !
Free Weezy yo
weezy just ment drakes better then him because his image is better,people miss read weezy because the tattoos etc.. FREE WEEZY!
Its not about whos better or whos the best rapper alive. Its about morals and principles that wezzy over the years has aquired and is seening the bigger picture as we speak. Wezzy has been one of the most talked about persons in the history of rap and music and for that he is the best rapper but never the less you can’t take away what Drake has done for Young Money, Drake has put a new face on the record lable and has been changing the industry of rap to what its going to become. Drake has a lot of potential and will overcome lil wayne at one point. I dont belive that wezzy is admiting defeat but only giving Drake a set of mind that only a person like wezzy can understand. Drake will become or has already become the new face of Young Money along with Nicki Minaj. Wezzy when you get out be shur to hit me up for a custom golf cart specialy made to your taste FREE like you should be. Im out Joaquin
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umm , just cause lil wayne has all the tattoos & piercings doesnt mean anything to me , he seems like a down to earth person. Even if he has made some mistakes in his life everybody has or will. And people love his music that comes from the inside , dont judge him for the out <3
Freee Weezy ! Love you Young Money!
i miss weezy f.baby all ya’ll haterz need 2 stop hatin weezy sed dat 2 drake cuz he don’t wanna make drake do da same mistake he made so ya’ll niggaz stop hatin
youngmoney all day
weezy f.baby all day i luv weezy
U’LL B FREE @ LAST.WE MISS U WEEZY!