Tyga has credited Lil Wayne‘s work ethic with why he’s managed to stay relevant in the game for over a decade himself.
The pair chopped it up on the latest episode of Weezy’s Young Money Radio show on Apple Music, published on Friday (December 1). When asked what his formula to longevity was, T-Raww had all praises due to his former label boss.
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“Staying in the studio,” Tyga began. “I feel like watching you, that was the first time that, like you said, I had ever been on tour, on a tour bus or anything like that really moving around. And to have so much going on, have success going on, shooting videos, but wherever we was at you would make sure like, ‘We’re going to the studio today.’ Alright we got a show, we in Buffalo tonight. You gon’ get off stage, you gon’ rock 20,000 people and we got the studio right after.”
He continued: “And if you can’t go to the studio, we got the studio bus. So it was just more like the work ethic I feel like and just staying consistent and staying obsessed with it and loving it. I feel like a lot of people fall out of love with it and that’s why muthafuckas fall off or people just aren’t consistent or not as tapped in. It ain’t even about for the money, it’s the love.”
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In his response, Wayne revealed he got that work ethic from his own mentors: Birdman and Slim.
“What’s interesting about what you saying about the love – I get it from two people that’s not rappers,” Wayne said. “I get it from Slim and Baby. Studio every day. Slim ain’t about to rap a bar. Baby ’bout to come in and try when he feel like it, and nine times out of 10, he ’bout to ask one of us, ‘Man write this, write this.’ He gon’ switch a few words to say it how he wanna say it. So with that said, I used to always sit back and ask myself like…
“‘Cause they wasn’t setting studio time up just for the artist to be there,” he continued. “They there. All 1,000 hours we there, they there. So I used to sit back and be like, ‘What the hell?’ It was more so Slim. I used to be like, ‘Why is Slim here so much?’ ‘Cause we here writing. He wanna hear the verse when you finish, right before you go in.
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“He wanna hear like, ‘What you got, Wayne?’ Like a coach… So I was like, that’s simply that they love it. They love it that much because if they didn’t, they wouldn’t care about what we was saying… That’s where I get that shit from. I’m glad you got that shit from me.”
Check out the longevity conversation around the 7:57 mark in the video below:
Earlier this year, Tyga named Lil Wayne (as well as Eminem) his vote for the “Best Rappers Of All Time.”
The convo was sparked after Billboard and VIBE released a list of their Top 50 Rappers of All Time. Per the list, Em landed at the No.5 spot, whereas Weezy found himself following not too far behind at No. 7. And for the former Young Money rapper, they were his No. 1 and 2.
“Lil Wayne & Eminem are the best rappers of all time! Lyrical word play, delivery, flow, pockets, originality , raw, intentional , clarity, generational influence,” he wrote on Twitter.
Several days later, he also acknowledged his former Young Money partner in rhyme, Nicki Minaj.
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“Nicki is the best female rapper of all time no one comes close! World play , punchlines , delivery, pockets , beat selection, creativity. Inflictions,” he wrote in a series of follow-up tweets.
The California native even shouted out Doja Cat, who he said was a “really good rapper too.”
