Lil Wayne is familiar with success, but recently admitted he doesn’t have the strongest recollection.
Saturday marked the 15th anniversary of Tha Carter III. Upon reflection on his culture-shifting record during an interview with Rolling Stone, the NOLA rap legend disclosed the moment wasn’t that big to him, and it’s not because it wasn’t monumental but more so because he can’t remember much of it.
“I’m going to be so honest with you: I don’t know Tha Carter III, Tha Carter II, Tha Carter I from Tha Carter IV,” Wayne, 40, told the outlet. “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. So it holds no significance to me at all.”
After being asked about the fact that it came out in 2008 and received a massive amount of positive reception and acclaim during another era of music, Weezy expressed his thoughts on the matter:
“Nah, I don’t even know if that’s when Tha Carter III came out. That’s how much I don’t know. I work every day, bro – every single day,” the “A Milli” rapper said.
He continued explaining his rationale for this tendency’s various pros and cons.
“And also, I always look at it as the curse part of the gift and the curse. I believe that [God] blessed me with this amazing mind, but would not give [me] an amazing memory to remember this amazing s**t,” he said.
Under his distorted memory, Wayne also admitted he doesn’t have a favorite record.
“Not a favorite at all. My favorite song is the last one I record. And then I will forget it after the next one I record,” he said.
The “How to Love” rapper illuminated in the interview why he desires to continue making sublime, high-quality music.
“Every single action, every single word, every single approach. The reason why I’m still only listening and working on my own s**t is because I’m in it. I believe once you start trying to listen to everybody else, you ain’t in it no more. You just happy to be here. But not me. I’m in a gym working on my own game. I don’t care how high you jumping. I don’t care how fast you run. You can’t even stand next to me with that s**t.”
Weezy mentioned he has no plans of slowing down anytime soon.
“When you work the way I work, it gets strenuous, and it might flash. And even when you say it, I don’t think you actually mean stop working or doing music,” the “Fireman” rapper said. “You probably just mean you want to retire from everything else but the music [laughs]. When you’re an artist — a real artist like myself, I was born this way. So I don’t think that the real true artists and pioneers, they never retire. They died doing this.”