*Lil Wayne’s friends didn’t believe him when he signed a record deal with Cash Money Records as part of the Hot Boys at age 14.
“When I got with them… I was a kid, I was literally a kid,” Weezy shared during a recent appearance on The Pivot Podcast, Complex reports. “Every day for me was Astroworld, you know… I used to have to go in the Odyssey [Records] store, ’cause they ain’t put our faces on the first album cover. My 11-year-old friends didn’t believe me, but their parents wouldn’t let them get my album anyway, we cussing so I got to go prove it to them and show them my name on the back of that motherfucker. … So when we got the deal—my mind was already blown.”
As Complex reports, Wayne was the youngest Cash Money Records signee when he joined the Hot Boys. Their debut album “Get It How U Live!!,” dropped in 1997.
Elsewhere in the podcast interview, the hip-hop star said Jay-Z inspired him to not write down his lyrics.
“Like Biggie, love Biggie, love Jadakiss — I love all that shit, but Jay. The moment I heard it I stopped,” Wayne said. “You could ask my boy. ‘I heard that n***a Jay-Z don’t write no more.'”
He continued, “We went in the studio, and we did ‘10,000 Bars,’ and that was the last time I rapped anything off of a paper.”
The rapper previously admitted he got a tattoo of lyrics from Jay-Z’s 1999 album “Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter.”
“It was the first album where I actually [bought] the car that the rapper was talking about. That was my album,” he told Lil Baby for Rolling Stone‘s Musicians on Musicians series. “Also, Jay talked so crazy. 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.”‘
Meanwhile, Lil Wayne recently told Rolling Stone that he doesn’t know the lyrics to many of his own songs due to memory loss.
“I don’t know ‘Tha Carter III,’ ‘Tha Carter II,’ ‘Tha Carter One’ from ‘Tha Carter IV,’” he shared.
“And that’s just my God’s honest truth. You could lie, you could ask me [about] such and such song, I wouldn’t even know what we talking about,” the hip-hop star continued.
The New Orleans-born rapper claims his memory is so bad that can’t recall when his albums were released.
“That’s how much I don’t know,” Lil Wayne shared, noting that he views it as a “gift” and a “curse.”
Wayne has a history of health issues, including epilepsy.
READ MORE: Lil Wayne Talks Memory Loss: ‘Gift and Curse’
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