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Mack 10 recently did an interview with BallerStatus, in which he spoke about working with Lil Wayne and how he knew Weezy F Baby would be very successful, even 10 years back. When asked how he got so many big names on his first single So Sharp, Mack 10 replied:
Just a phone call, it wasn�t nothing. I been doing this a long time and I I�ve sold probably five or six million records independent. So I�m alright on my side of the tracks, ya dig what I�m saying? In the indie world, it�s like Hoo-Bangin� is as good as it gets in the independent world. The last Westside Connection record was on Hoo-Bangin�. It wasn�t nothing but a phone call. Wayne is my folks, Ross is my folks. It was nothing.
BallerStatus: Back to the Cash Money topic. What�s your first memory of Lil Wayne and what�s your thought on the type of success that he�s having now?
Mack 10: I was one of the first to tell Baby and Slim years ago, like way before Wayne�s success right now. I said �Bet the house on him.� If you ask Baby I think he�ll tell you that I said �Bet the house on Wayne, he got it. Just let him be him and do him.� That�s what he did and the rest is history. Wayne is a special talent, period, and I knew it. This success is not new, Wayne been going platinum since he was fourteen. Everybody looks at Wayne like all this new success, but it ain�t new. He�s been going platinum for 10 years now, but it seems like people forgot about that. That�s what makes him even better because usually people don�t get better the longer their careers go. They don�t get bigger 10 years later, but that�s what this kid did and that�s just phenomenal really.
Mack dime certainly has a point, Weezy was selling millions of albums back in the 90s. That�s pretty cool that he just gave Lil Wayne a call and got him on his first single.
Just a phone call, it wasn�t nothing. I been doing this a long time and I I�ve sold probably five or six million records independent. So I�m alright on my side of the tracks, ya dig what I�m saying? In the indie world, it�s like Hoo-Bangin� is as good as it gets in the independent world. The last Westside Connection record was on Hoo-Bangin�. It wasn�t nothing but a phone call. Wayne is my folks, Ross is my folks. It was nothing.
BallerStatus: Back to the Cash Money topic. What�s your first memory of Lil Wayne and what�s your thought on the type of success that he�s having now?
Mack 10: I was one of the first to tell Baby and Slim years ago, like way before Wayne�s success right now. I said �Bet the house on him.� If you ask Baby I think he�ll tell you that I said �Bet the house on Wayne, he got it. Just let him be him and do him.� That�s what he did and the rest is history. Wayne is a special talent, period, and I knew it. This success is not new, Wayne been going platinum since he was fourteen. Everybody looks at Wayne like all this new success, but it ain�t new. He�s been going platinum for 10 years now, but it seems like people forgot about that. That�s what makes him even better because usually people don�t get better the longer their careers go. They don�t get bigger 10 years later, but that�s what this kid did and that�s just phenomenal really.
Mack dime certainly has a point, Weezy was selling millions of albums back in the 90s. That�s pretty cool that he just gave Lil Wayne a call and got him on his first single.
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