Lil Wayne announced in 2013 that he would be restarting the group alongside Birdman and Drake, but without any contribution from Mannie Fresh. Though an album was planned, no music by the new group ever came to fruition.
What do you remember from those first songs, like Get It How U Live! era?I remember we actually did Get It How U Live! album in Houston. We all brought our cars out there, and we just set up shop. I forgot the name of the studio, but I remember that's my first time I seen Bun B do a 16, in like five minutes. Baby used to always have us write, like, "man, look, that's how y'all supposed to do it." 'Cause Bun B would go in the studio and do his verse so fast. I'm talking about fast, man.
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It just was inspiring to see a legend like Bun B in the studio, and we was able to be working with him. And he wound up getting on the Get It How U Live! album, on a song called "I'm Coming." That was a big moment for me because I'm a UGK fan. RIP Pimp C. I loved "Pocket Full of Stones" and all that old school music that they was putting out back then. We was living that life, so we was able to relate to that.
That was my first time doing an album that I was a part of. I was a little shy on that first Get It How U Live! album. That's why I'm not really as much heard on it. But by the time we got to that Guerrilla Warfare, you hear me all over, coming out of my shyness.
What was it like making Guerrilla Warfare ?I ain't lyin, Guerrilla Warfare rode, man. I like every song damn near all those songs on Guerrilla Warfare because I had gotten better. I got better with time, and by the time we did the second Hot Boy album, I was ready. I believe that album went platinum, double platinum. We did numbers on that album. Just to be a part of that, man, that was legendary.
We actually did that album at Circle House in Miami. We used to shoot dice all the time. Circle House, they had catered food. The guys [Inner Circle] that made the "bad boy, bad boy, what you gonna do, what you gonna do when they come for you," they had a studio called the Circle House, named after their group. I remember recording, setting up shop in Miami. We was in Miami for one summer, and we did that album in like a week. And I knew it was gonna be a banger because every song was just a classic.
It's what we were just talking about with the back and forth. The chemistry is so good.See, we didn't really ever know that effect on people, but we actually was like the first ones to do it, outside of The Outlawz. The Outlawz used to do that a lot. And we did a lot of our stuff based off of how 2Pac's work ethic was. Baby used to always use 2Pac as the example: "Man, 2Pac working, he recording, he doing this. Look at The Outlawz."
What do you remember about Big Tymers and those albums?They was doing their thing, man. Big Tymers, they would go in the studio and just talk some shit. They couldn't rap. They wasn't rappers. They was game spitters. They'd tell you that. Baby actually got better through the years. But at the time, they'd go in there, and Fresh was like a comedian on the mic. And Baby used to say anything. He used to game spit, and he believed that shit himself to where everybody else believed it. They just had good chemistry together, man. Nobody ever did it better than them. They took "they can't rap" and made the world think they can.
When Juvenile and B.G. left Cash Money and then eventually you left, and it was just Wayne, what do you remember from that era?I don't know. It wasn't the same. It wasn't happy. Everybody wound up going their separate ways, but, like, with every family, man, you have fights and falling outs. Every label throughout the years. We were all young. When you get older you know better, you do better. So everybody, we started working again, man. As far as Lil Wayne and Birdman, they gon' work their situation out. And hopefully we'll be on tour doing the whole Cash Money thing again. 'Cause the world waitin' on it, and I'm waitin' on it.
What do you remember of Mannie Fresh as a producer?Mannie Fresh was the best. 'Cause he was a one-man army. He did everything. Mannie Fresh played the keyboards. He played the drums. Everything was Mannie Fresh. He might bring on a few more other dudes, but Mannie Fresh produced all them albums himself. He was great. Mannie Fresh was like the Dre in the South. And to this day, everybody still tries to do the things that Mannie Fresh did.
Then there was also your solo album, Young and Thuggin' . What do you remember about that?I believe I went gold on Young and Thuggin'. When Young and Thuggin' was coming out, basically Juvenile was leaving, B.G. was leaving. That's why Juvenile's not on Young and Thuggin'. But I remember I did my album in like a week. We recorded it in New Orleans. I got Mack 10 on it, Wayne, Baby, some of the newer artists on Cash Money. And just, man, I was happy. That was my first solo album. Everybody was waiting on it. It was highly anticipated. I just ain't have my mind right to push it at the time because at that time, like I said, the company had started breaking up, and my drug habit had intensified. I didn't follow through because I had a drug habit, which was heroin and cocaine. And that kind of affected me throughout the years. And I wound up going to jail, man, in the time of my solo career. And I been going to jail since, until the time I caught my case in Memphis in 2004. And I wind up staying in there eight years, eight months, 16 days.
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