How Lil Wayne Became One of Hip-Hop’s Most Durable Stars

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Tracing the rapper’s evolution from a teen in New Orleans to his long-awaited album “Tha Carter V.” Guests: XXL's Vanessa Satten; The New York Times's Joe Coscarelli

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0:00.0	One of the New York Times Popcast, Your Babiest Gangster, or Most Gangster Baby, of music
0:05.0	news and criticism.
0:06.0	I'm your host John Caramonica. Running, you understanding, you understanding, it be seen and blazing.
0:14.0	I swear the boys crazy,
0:15.0	highly grown stem,
0:16.0	did the spot where I was raised,
0:18.0	and maybe was some kids and, running duck and fads,
0:21.0	and, under their tongues and, under their beds and
0:24.0	hood for the real soul this 24-7 hustlers,
0:26.0	eh, and shouldn't have a barrel,
0:28.0	down your pipe suck,
0:29.0	I don't know love for no muster,
0:30.0	no fear for no coward,
0:32.0	no respect for no shit.
0:33.0	And nobody without power.
0:35.0	Re weaving to get hot a bug,
0:36.0	Lass it and sour, pile up in the anti-bower and block her in every hour.
0:40.0	Some of them like the pot of
0:41.0	Molin' love with that train.
0:42.0	Some like the trees of that
0:43.7	deinstitut it up any bang from the home of the game checking and cracking brains
0:48.2	put on cash-free live from the block is still way
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