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C: [Laughs] What's your writing process like? You just jot everything down?
Lil Wayne: I don't write nothing, I just keep ideas and never fucking use them. I just write down shit, like bad situations or stories. Jot them down as I go, like, cool idea, and if I fucking remember when I'm in the studio-when I'm in the studio, when I hear a new song, I'm going to start a line off fresh and I always just keep going because I be like, "I'm killing it right now but I know I got some bad ass ideas written down."
C: How do you lay down your verses?
Lil Wayne: Sporadically. I just be chilling, drinking, smoking and I'm like turn the mic on. I visualize a lot of things too, I like to see it before I say it, how I want to look on the video or if it's going to be a single, I take it all the way down to if I was rapping this motherfucker song a capella to a person that don't know or like me, that's how I approach every song, how can I get a person to pay attention to it? I ain't gotta get you to like me but I can get a person to pay attention. Like, the people you're sitting next to on the plane and they're wondering why the fuck you're sitting next to them in first class, I want them to be able to ask me a question and I'll be able to start rapping to them and they don't even know it's a rap. That's how you do it, that's how you bring people into whatever you want to bring them into.
C: I see...
Lil Wayne: What I mean is, if you working the door at the Trump Towers, and when you got the job they told you to say "hello" or "goodbye" to everybody that pass out that motherfucker, but when you clock out and you work your door at your house, you don't even speak to motherfuckers, or you be like, "what up nigga". You can't come to the Towers and say "what up nigga," you gotta say, "hello" and "goodbye." Now it's on you to get your point across to where even they say "what up, nigga." You gotta figure out a way to make them motherfuckers feel exactly what you're saying because everybody went through the same thing, the whole world. Black, white, green, yellow, purple, dogs, animals, people, we all go through the same thing, ain't no different shit about us, nobody.
Lil Wayne: I don't write nothing, I just keep ideas and never fucking use them. I just write down shit, like bad situations or stories. Jot them down as I go, like, cool idea, and if I fucking remember when I'm in the studio-when I'm in the studio, when I hear a new song, I'm going to start a line off fresh and I always just keep going because I be like, "I'm killing it right now but I know I got some bad ass ideas written down."
C: How do you lay down your verses?
Lil Wayne: Sporadically. I just be chilling, drinking, smoking and I'm like turn the mic on. I visualize a lot of things too, I like to see it before I say it, how I want to look on the video or if it's going to be a single, I take it all the way down to if I was rapping this motherfucker song a capella to a person that don't know or like me, that's how I approach every song, how can I get a person to pay attention to it? I ain't gotta get you to like me but I can get a person to pay attention. Like, the people you're sitting next to on the plane and they're wondering why the fuck you're sitting next to them in first class, I want them to be able to ask me a question and I'll be able to start rapping to them and they don't even know it's a rap. That's how you do it, that's how you bring people into whatever you want to bring them into.
C: I see...
Lil Wayne: What I mean is, if you working the door at the Trump Towers, and when you got the job they told you to say "hello" or "goodbye" to everybody that pass out that motherfucker, but when you clock out and you work your door at your house, you don't even speak to motherfuckers, or you be like, "what up nigga". You can't come to the Towers and say "what up nigga," you gotta say, "hello" and "goodbye." Now it's on you to get your point across to where even they say "what up, nigga." You gotta figure out a way to make them motherfuckers feel exactly what you're saying because everybody went through the same thing, the whole world. Black, white, green, yellow, purple, dogs, animals, people, we all go through the same thing, ain't no different shit about us, nobody.
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