Lil Wayne isn’t too familiar with Jay-Z and Ye’s catalogs, which include their iconic joint project.
He didn’t hold back in his latest Rolling Stone profile, casually revealing he had no clue about “Watch the Throne,” the 2011 album by Jay-Z and Ye, formerly known as Kanye West.
“What’s that?” Wayne asked when writer Andre Gee referenced the iconic project. “Kanye and Jay-Z’s album,” Gee clarified. “They did an album?” Wayne replied, seemingly genuinely stunned.
According to the piece, “The rest of the room spends the next five minutes playing songs from the iconic 2011 album to jog Wayne’s memory. He looks bewildered trying to decipher the opening moments of ‘Otis,’ asking Twist if he ever freestyled to it (Twist shakes his head ‘no’), though he does recall ‘N***as in Paris’ and ‘No Church in the Wild.’”
Some fans weren’t buying Wayne’s apparent confusion, with some pointing to Hov’s infamous line on “H.A.M.”: “You got baby money,” widely seen as a jab at Wayne and Cash Money Records.
Wayne clapped back on “Tha Carter IV,” which would contradict his notion of never hearing the album.
“Talking about baby money? I got your baby money / Kidnap your b***h, get that ‘how much you love your lady’ money,” Weezy rapped on this track, “It’s Good.”
