Lil Wayne has revealed that he stopped writing down lyrics after learning that JAY-Z strictly freestyled without a pen and paper.
Weezy joined The Pivot Podcast on Tuesday (July 11) where he reflected on the moment he threw his notebook in the trash and went off the top.
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“Like Biggie, love Biggie, love Jadakiss — I love all that shit, but Jay. The moment I heard it I stopped. You could ask my boy. ‘I heard that n-gga JAY-Z don’t write no more.’
“We went in the studio and we did ‘10,000 Bars’ and that was the last time I rapped anything off of a paper.”
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The “10,000 Bars” track Wayne is referencing is a 35-minute song from 2002 featuring the former Hot Boys rapper spitting the last of his written rhymes in a rapid-fire fashion over an assortment of pieces while the pieces of paper being discarded are even picked up by the microphone.
Last month, Wayne recalled a time that Birdman chewed him out for allegedly trying to sound like JAY-Z when he was rapping.
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“When you find a favorite artist, you’re going to start sounding like them,” he told Rolling Stone. “It took Birdman and them to pull my ass aside and be like, ‘Bro, I’m tired of every song you doing sounding like damn JAY-Z. You’re not JAY-Z.’”
Jay and Lil Wayne have long had a competitive relationship while colliding on tracks like DJ Khaled’s “GOD DID,” Tha Carter III‘s “Mr. Carter,” “Hello Brooklyn 2.0,” and “Swagga Like Us.”
Amid their battles, Lil Wayne once hailed Hov’s 1999 Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter as one of his favorite albums of all-time.
“JAY-Z, Life and Times of Shawn Carter, plain and simple,” Wayne told Lil Baby in 2020. “It was the first album where I actually [bought] the car that the rapper was talking about. That was my album.”
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The Young Money boss actually ended up getting Vol. 3 lyrics tattooed on him and has freestyled over album hits such as “Big Pimpin” in the past.
“Also, Jay talked so crazy,” he continued. “He went bananas on that album. I got lyrics from the album tattooed on me and shit. I have songs that are remakes of spinoffs of songs from that album.”
