Lil Wayne calls JAY-Z a “real friend” for helping him pay off back taxes
Lil Wayne calls JAY-Z a “real friend” for helping him pay off back
taxes
"There's people like JAY-Z. He
helped me when I was really, really, really down. Really, really, really down"
Lil Wayne and JAY-Z weren’t always
friendly. For years, the pair traded diss tracks. That eventually changed,
however, and the rap luminaries now consider themselves friends as well as
peers. In fact Wayne took a moment during his Sunday night show in Chicago to
thank Hova for his generosity.
“There’s people like JAY-Z. He helped me
when I was really, really, really down. Really, really, really down,” Wayne
said onstage (via USA Today). “Jay don’t want me to tell nobody. That man
helped me with my taxes. He’s a real friend, y’all.”
Wayne is likely referring to the $7.72
million in back taxes the rapper owed years ago. He paid it back in 2012, and
as we now know it was apparently with the help of the Jigga Man.
Wayne also took a moment in Chicago to
shout out producer Swizz Beats. “There’s people like Swizz Beatz that’s gonna
send me every beat he make and want me to rap on every single one until I got
my situation straight,” Wayne said.
Wayne’s doing solid these days. He
finally released the long-awaited Tha Carter V after it languished in the
wilderness for seven years.
He also recently teamed up with Nicki Minaj for a
new remix of “Good Form”, contributed to Future and Juice WRLD’s joint album,
and popped up on the soundtrack for Creed II. His Tha Carter V track “Mona
Lisa” featuring Kendrick Lamar was named one of our favorite songs of the year.
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