LIL WAYNE SAY'S ANDRE 3000 REMARKS ABOUT RAPPING OVER 40 IS DEPRESSING

   By unspoken truth

      HIP- HOP has grown past the stigma of rapping at an older age. It has reached a point of if you're good at what you do keep doing it for as long as you want. Maybe Andre 3000 is suffering from the worst case of writers block ever. Or maybe the pressure of being a top tier rapper who is expected to deliver top tier bars has become too much for him to handle. Hip Hop has grown pass the age thing, and it ain't a thing no more. Lil Wayne has revealed that he was disheartened to read André 3000‘s recent comments on not having anything to rap about in his 40s.

Tunechi brought the topic up on the most recent episode of his Young Money Radio show on Apple Music. Talking to his guest Tyga, Wayne didn’t name names but made it quite clear who he was referring to.

“I read a depressing quote or two from someone I respect a lot in music – in Hip Hop period, in music period,” he began. “And they were asked, ‘Why you ain’t been doing music’ or whatever? And they was like, ‘Man, what I’ma talk about? I’m in my 40s. Like what am I supposed to talk about?’ I was like wow, that was so depressing. I’m like, I have everything to talk about!”

Tyga replied: “But I feel like that’s why you gotta stay in it, though. I feel like you can’t be too far removed.”

Wayne disagreed, however, saying that, at his age, there’s a risk that keeping up with current music might be even more creatively discouraging.

“So that’s why I say I don’t listen,” he concluded. “I just go in my little hole. I love what I do. I just put it out and swing for the fences man.”

The comments Lil Wayne were referring to appeared in André 3000’s interview with GQ last month. While discussing why his new album, New Blue Sun, doesn’t include any raps (or lyrics at all, for that matter), Dre said he simply has nothing to discuss at his age.

“I’ve worked with some of the newest, freshest, youngest, and old-school producers. I get beats all the time. I try to write all the time,” he began. “Even now people think, ‘Oh, man, he’s just sitting on raps,’ or, ‘He’s just holding these raps hostage.’ I ain’t got no raps like that. It actually feels…sometimes it feels inauthentic for me to rap because I don’t have anything to talk about in that way.”

He continued: “I’m 48 years old. And not to say that age is a thing that dictates what you rap about, but in a way it does. And things that happen in my life, like, what are you talking about? ‘I got to go get a colonoscopy.’ What are you rapping about? ‘My eyesight is going bad.'”

We are not going for it 3 stacks. At 50 years of age Hip Hop has come to far to put artist in a box anymore. Step your pen game up or bow out gracefully but don't blame it on age, as most of the best doing it are in their 40's and 50th right now. Most of the best rockers on the planet are in their 70's and 80's. 

Source Hiphopdx,GQ/WaneEnterpises