Lil Wayne and Wheezy have announced that they’re cooking up new material in the studio under the title Weezy vs. Wheezy.
The project, which is set to arrive on April 4, will feature the Young Money boss joining forces with the 2019 HipHopDX Producer of the Year.
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Though it isn’t yet clear whether the collaboration will take the form of an entire album, EP or just a single, Universal Music Group has dropped pre-save links for Apple and Spotify, which you can find here.
News of the Weezy vs. Wheezy collaboration is sure to thrill some fans, though Ebro Darden might not be among them.
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On the latest episode of Apple Music’s Rap Life Review, the radio talent and music executive made a case for more music from Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj.
“I think we’re owed as Hip Hop fans a collab Drake/Wayne album,” he began. “Or just an EP. Or a Drake/Wayne/Nicki – seven joints, five joints. Something. I think it’s love [between Drake and Nicki]. When the schedules align, they’re cool. She had him on her album, you know?”
The three titans were inseparable in the early 2010s but made fewer and fewer public appearances together as Nicki and Drake’s careers blew up.
In August 2022, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj and Drake shared the stage for the first time in almost a decade at Toronto’s Budweiser Stage for the third and final night of Drizzy’s October World Weekend festival.
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Last summer, Birdman claimed that while his label has been sent offers upwards of $4 million to $5 million for just Weezy alone, the numbers would quadruple if Nicki and Drizzy were added to the mix.
“So you know with Nicki and Drake, that shit about $15-20 million a show,” he said. “Big facts. A lot of [money on the table]. $4-5million a show. We’ve been offered about $4-5 million a show. That’s without Drake and Nicki.”
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Starting with 2021’s Certified Lover Boy, the Canadian superstar’s projects have since been distributed via OVO Sound and Republic Records. Still, during a 2019 interview with Rap Radar, he vowed to remain loyal to the empire Birdman and his brother Slim built.
“I’m always going to be involved in the Cash Money/Young Money imprint,” he said. “And my loyalty, like I said, always lies there.”
