Lil Wayne got curved by Ja Morant after offering to “help” him, according to Skip Bayless.
During a recent episode of The Skip Bayless Show, the sports commentator revealed Weezy reached out to him in an attempt to connect with Morant amid his recent gun controversies.
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Bayless claimed Wayne wanted to sit down with Ja Morant to discuss his life experiences, including his actions that led to spending time behind bars on Rikers Island.
“Lil Wayne, I said this on a previous podcast, texted me, he said, ‘Hey, can you connect me with Ja? Because I could help him. I’ve been there, I’ve done all this. I’ve wound up in prison, Rikers Island, I know what happens. I know where you can go wrong and I know what’s right,'” Bayless said.
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“I said, ‘I’ll try.’ And I reached out to Ja, ‘Would you sit with Lil Wayne, would you talk with Lil Wayne?’ Wayne would fly to him — he’d fly to Memphis in a heartbeat tonight. Wayne would private plane it and go right to Memphis if he thought he could save a career and a soul.”
However, Skip Bayless said he didn’t hear anything back from Ja Morant or his team.
“I got nothing back from Ja — didn’t expect anything back,” he said. “And in the end, I just hope Ja and Antonio don’t turn out to be one of those people you just can’t reach, you just can’t fix, you just can’t save.”
Lil Wayne recently showed his support for Ja Morant on an episode of Showtime’s All the Smoke podcast by reflecting back on his own experience having money and fame at a young age.
“The best I could do is remember when I was younger and my homies, my squad, my n-ggas around me, at the age where they don’t have money,” he said. “I’m the one with the money, and I don’t even know how much money I’ll end up with, but I’m the one with some money in my pocket — I know I got a bright future.
“My homies, they ain’t on a payroll. They my homies, they live good when they with me. When I gotta go to work and all that, they gotta go back to being who they gotta be. So what I’m saying that to say, they in them streets and I was aware of that.
“So if I was going through something at that point in time, something public what slime going through, I could imagine the rebellious attitude I would have if my homies is egging that attitude on.”
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He added: “Do y’all know that boy? ‘Cause I don’t,” he said. “I know him from dunking and jumping, and I only started knowing him when I started paying attention to him in his last year of college.
“He come from like a town with 3,000 people. Like, what? What y’all expect? Y’all gave him $200 million. I just said, a town with 3,000 people. You expect him to be responsible? Now we tripping.”
