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Lil Wayne's original comment:

"I read a depressing quote or two from someone that I respect a lot in hip-hop and music period," Wayne said about André's quote. "They would ask, 'Why you ain't been doing music,' and they was like, 'Man what am I gonna talk about? I'm in my 40s, like what am I going to talk about? What you want to know about me being 40 and the life I'm living?'...I was like that's so depressing I have everything to talk about."

Wayne continued after mentioning staying in the game in order to stay relevant, "I thought that may be a downfall of me staying in it because you may at our age you may hear what's going on and feel I'm so out of that. I ain't bout to drop nothing," he said. "So that's why I say I don't listen. I just go in my little hole, I love what I do, put it out, and hopefully, we swing for the fences, man."




Andre 3000's response:


“Some are the best braggadocious rappers in the world, and we love them for that — but it’s so much easier to do that for the rest of your life. I don’t necessarily rap like that. Our formulas are different.”

3 Stacks continued to defend his stance while responding to an unnamed critic: “He doesn’t know what it takes for me to do what I do. I don’t know what it takes for him to say the same thing over and over again and still keep it creative. But I love him for doing it.”
 
"a day in the life of Andre Benjamin" is the type of content I way hoping to hear from him at this stage in his life

This. Grown man rap. Societal observations…dope beats. It’s weird because every now and then he’ll pop up on a verse and body it like on Killer Mike’s “Scientists and Engineers”. And it’s like “this! Do an album of this!”

Or his verse on Big Boi’s Royal Flush. He should do like how Nas did, lock in the studio with a single dope producer that can get him in the pocket creatively.
 
I wouldn't mind another love below kinda project

I mean he don't have to get into the weeds about his relationship with Erykah but I would like to hear about his experiences as a dad in contrast to his experience with his dad
 
I wouldn't mind another love below kinda project

I mean he don't have to get into the weeds about his relationship with Erykah but I would like to hear about his experiences as a dad in contrast to his experience with his dad


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This. Grown man rap. Societal observations…dope beats. It’s weird because every now and then he’ll pop up on a verse and body it like on Killer Mike’s “Scientists and Engineers”. And it’s like “this! Do an album of this!”

Or his verse on Big Boi’s Royal Flush. He should do like how Nas did, lock in the studio with a single dope producer that can get him in the pocket creatively.
Let Krit produce the whole project. Would be so dope!
 
Nothing wrong with either of their standpoints both things can be true to them and who they are as rappers.

Seeing niggas rapping and seeking relevance past 40 has always weird and cringe to me. It will be interesting to see how my idea of this changes as my goat is nearing that age along with myself. I wonder if my energy will change.
 
Lupe’s new album Samurai is how aged fine wine hiphop should sound. That being said, If Andre 3000 really wanted to rap he would. I get what he’s saying about his heart not being in it to. Whenever you do something at a certain age that you used to identify through with a certain version of you. The self consciousness of being, beyond this, makes it less enjoyable.
 
Nothing wrong with either of their standpoints both things can be true to them and who they are as rappers.

Seeing niggas rapping and seeking relevance past 40 has always weird and cringe to me. It will be interesting to see how my idea of this changes as my goat is nearing that age along with myself. I wonder if my energy will change.
This has always been a weird take IMO because why?? I don't understand why people think an artist some how loses his/her creative juice at a particular age or no longer has anything relevant to say...
 
It sounds more like Andre is in his own head about his ability to craft an album of songs from an older perspective. And it's understandable. He grew up and came up during the time when rapper were mocked for wanting to rap past 40. He's part of the 1st generation of rappers to actually be embraced rapping past 40 and giving a true grown/middle age man perspective.
 
I like when raps about the downside to being famous

Give me a project of that
 
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