Lil Wayne Talks Jay-Z, Swizz Beatz and Money

 

Lil Wayne has had a pretty tough couple of years, but thankfully he's had some great friends to help him through it all — Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz.

"There's people like Jay-Z. He helped me when I was really, really, really down. Really, really, really down," Wayne said onstage in his address to the crowd. "Jay don't want me to tell nobody. That man helped me with my taxes. He's a real friend, y'all."

"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.

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Lil Wayne has spent much of the last year and a half legally battling Birdman, attempting to get free of his Cash Money contract and recoup some of the millions he says he's owed, but it all could have gone differently if Wayne had signed with Roc-A-Fella Records around 2005. 

At the time Wayne was considering leaving the home that made him after his deal with Cash Money ended, and Jay Z invited him up to New York City to see if he could convince the greatest rapper alive at the time to rock a Roc chain. As Lil Wayne recounts in this new interview with DJ Drama, the meeting didn't go well. 

After Wayne awkwardly stood around while Jay Z hung out with his famous buddies, Hova then pulled Weezy aside to offer him $175K for his services, a number that was laughably low for Weezy at the time.