*The season three premiere of “The Masked Singer”aired following the Super Bowl, and hip-hop fans (who don’t watch the show) woke up to the news on Monday that Lil Wayne was unveiled as the robot.
After the rapper performed Lenny Kravitz’s “Are You Gonna Go My Way,” the judges guessed the robot was Shaun White or Johnny Knoxville. They were floored when Weezy revealed himself to the audience.
As noted by Billboard, Wayne said he picked the robot costume for his kids. “So when my kids watch the show with me I know they’re gonna like the robot costume,” he said.
“He just made this show so much cooler, right?” host Nick Cannon said of Wayne following the reveal.
Scroll up and peep Lil Wanye’s performance on the show via the clip above, and his interview via the clip below.
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Lil Wayne’s “Masked Singer” performance follows the release of his 13th studio album “Funeral” via Young Money Records/Republic Records last week.
“I’ve always been the artist that’s been left field,” Wayne tells Entertainment Weekly in a new interview. “I’ve always been whatever they want to call me, some Martian or whatever. I’ve always been that artist and that’s just the growth of who that artist is now.”
Below are more excerpts from Lil Wayne’s Q&A with EW.
How many songs you estimate you recorded for this album? And what’s the process of whittling them down?
The last time I looked at…my little list of the songs we recorded, it said 72 files. That lets you know how it works. Mack’s ear is to the world. Mine isn’t. Mine is to myself and my music, my world. And so Mack knows what everyone is listening to and likes, so he comes and listens to these songs because he’s the one who will let me know like “They gon’ love this, they gon’ love that.” So we hopefully end up with the best songs out of that whole hundred thousand of them I recorded. It’s fun.
With “Dreams,” you talk about the nightmare of being broke. Are you at a place where you’re thinking about prioritizing entrepreneurship over music like a lot of your peers, or is music still very fulfilling to you?
Oh music is very fulfilling [laughs]. Music is still my bloodflow. That [song] right there was just perfect. When I sang that hook I was like “Okay I got it.” You know me, I’m a subject guy. You give me a subject, thank god I’m very creative with my words, and I have a wonderful personality, so I can stick to that subject real well and make something out of it. I’ve always been that guy. When Baby and them would give the Hot Boys a subject or title and say, “Hey, I want this song to be about Tuesdays and Thursdays” — we had a song called “Tuesday & Thursday,” truthfully — I would always [stick to the subject]. That’s what helped me a lot with this, because I was in a group. It was like being in school. You’d want to be the guy that turns in the best paper, and so I would always try to be the guy who’d stick to the subject the most in my verse because I knew everybody else is about to get on this song and still try to find a way to talk about something they really want to talk about.
Sticking to subjects, why is the album called Funeral? How’d you come up with the concept?
I thought everyone would understand. I’m noticing that I keep getting asked like “why is this Funeral?” I was like, “Nah, I thought y’all knew my mixtapes, my albums, they all have their little categories. You got the Da Droughts, you got The Prefix, The Suffix, you got Sorry 4 The Wait 1, 2, 3, 4, you got Tha Carter I, II, III, IV, V. So you have Rebirth, and now you have Funeral. Just plain and simple, nothing else. There’s no backstory. Everyone that asks, I’m like “Sorry I don’t have some long drawn-out story about the name.” It’s just Rebirth, Funeral, and maybe the next one would be Reincarnation, I don’t know.
You’ve got your fans shook. Everyone is like “Funeral? Is this his goodbye to rap?”
A guy asked me [that] question. He was like, “Does this mean this is your last album?” I was like, “Hell no, man.” I wouldn’t hope for this, [but] if my real funeral was tomorrow, it’s still not my last album. Just so you know.
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