Lil Wayne Calls Rap 'Boring,' Hops On Skateboarding Instead
'I believe the fans deserve some peace from me, so I'll be on my skateboard in the meantime,' Weezy tells DJ Drama during a radio interview.
These days you'll be hard-pressed to find Lil Wayne without a skateboard, but could the YMCMB rap champ be hanging up the mic in exchange for the deck? For the time being, yes.
"It's kinda putting rap on the back burner, that's all. Rap's taking a backseat to skating, that's all," Weezy told DJ Drama when he phoned into his radio show on Atlanta's Hot 107.9 on Wednesday.
"I kinda feel like I deserve that, I feel like the fans deserve a little No Wayne. I've been everywhere, man. I've been out on everybody's song, I'm still on everybody's song," Tunechi continued. "My artists are doing awesome; I believe the fans deserve some peace from me, so I'll be on my skateboard in the meantime."
Wayne did confirm that his Dedication 4 mixtape with Drama would be dropping in the middle of August, but he didn't elaborate on any of his other expected musical projects. At the top of June, Weezy Wi dropped "My Homies Still," the first single off of I Am Not a Human Being II, which is said to be dropping later this year, though no release date has been set.
Since he was a teen, Weezy has released music at a dizzying pace, whether solo albums, LPs with his former group the Hot Boys or his plethora of mixtapes, so can you really blame him? "Yeah, it does get pretty boring when it comes to the rapping and that kinda stuff. I've done so much of it," he said. "I've been doin' it since I was 8. I'm about to be 30 in September and I'm still rappin'. So I kinda feel like I'm gettin' old."
Skating provides a new challenge for the multiplatinum rap star. Tunechi has become so enamored with his board that he even has skating ramps in the microphone booth where he records. "What happened was I picked up the skateboard and it started being a hobby and what happened is it's a lifestyle," he said. "You have to be fully committed because it's super-scary, and in order to be fully committed, you have to live that lifestyle."
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:53 am
by Phigure
wasn't he also planning to become a guitarist? we saw how well that turned out
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:53 am
by dickman69
yay
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:56 am
by Sexual_Chocolate
fuck mtv
and fuck lil wayne.
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:03 am
by Mammoth
Cmon Wayne you need TALENT to skateboard
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:05 am
by Sexual_Chocolate
not having talent hasnt stopped him before.
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:08 am
by Mammoth
True...
I was just thinking that how he has talented producers who make him sound good and whatever but you can't really do that with skateboarding.
Unless he hires people to do some CGI shit to make him look like he tre bombed a 25 set
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:17 am
by sigbowls
he could build the biggest skate park
i hope he does
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:21 am
by wormcode
Yeah his rap was really boring. At least he knows.
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 1:23 am
by Sexual_Chocolate
signals wrote:he could build the biggest skate park
i hope he does
yea he could, but hes a tnuc & wouldnt let anyone use it except himself.
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:31 am
by SCope13
wormcode wrote:Yeah his rap was really boring. At least he knows.
I honestly enjoy 3Peat and Stuntin' Like my Daddy
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:38 am
by pkay
Nevalo wrote:
signals wrote:he could build the biggest skate park
i hope he does
yea he could, but hes a tnuc & wouldnt let anyone use it except himself.
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:00 am
by BonerJams04
6 foot 7 foot was pretty dope.
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:01 am
by wormcode
SCope13 wrote:
wormcode wrote:Yeah his rap was really boring. At least he knows.
I honestly enjoy 3Peat and Stuntin' Like my Daddy
I like a couple of bootleg remixes of 3peat but otherwise I didn't like what I heard from him on his own after that Fireman track. But it was mostly the instrumental I liked.
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:01 am
by Elektrastallion
Nevalo wrote:fuck mtv
and fuck lil wayne.
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:04 am
by ehbes
How long before he realized tuning his voice and tuning a board are different things
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:09 am
by pkay
He's spot on. 4 years ago dsf was on his nuts. Now they puffin their chests
If he takes 18 months off and drops another Carter album dsf will be back in full dangle mode
If biggie and pac were around dsf would shit on them manually
Wayne is dope. His verses on camrons last mix tape was insane
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:10 am
by pkay
I'd gather maybe 5% of Wayne's tracks hit MTV.
Re: Lil Wayne: I'm Switching From Rapping To Skateboarding
Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2012 4:25 am
by Sexual_Chocolate
he mightve been alright at one point... but then he started making stuff along these lines.
