Weezy's feature interview drops on December 11, until then we figured we'd whet your appetite for Weezy with a few of his quotables that didn't make it to print. Read up on about how he made BAPE hot, a possible Hot Boyz reunion and how he wants to have a weed cypher with Bill Gates, Tom from MySpace and Oscar De La Hoya. The drought is over.

Interview by: Kris Ex

C: What do you listen to these days?

Lil Wayne: Me! All day, all me. Ask me this question too: do I not like anybody? Nah, it ain't that, I got friends in this whole industry, everybody who do anything is cool with me, but you're not about to see Kobe at AI's game, chilling, watching. He gonna be working on being Kobe, making Kobe better but that's how I do me, I gotta listen to me, critique and analyze everything, every time you hear music playing. I don't want to be without that Aaliyah, "Let Me Know," "Killing Me Softly," shit like that. I don't really listen to no rap.

C: You seem to be singing a lot more now too.

Lil Wayne: Mmmm, hmmm. Pain, that's all that is, pain, pain brings that out you.

C: Where's the pain coming from these days?

Lil Wayne: Me. If you blame something else for your pain then you're an asshole. You are your pain, nigga. You can cut yourself right now. That don't hurt because you are your pain. If it hurts you, then you done that, it's a mind thing. You ever notice when you have a very stuffy nose or you have a cold and you eat something, you don't taste nothing, you be like, "I can't eat nothing, I can't taste it, I'm hungry," that's because you don't actually taste nothing, you know what I mean? You are you, you make everything around you. You make water, you make the sky, because it's you, if you don't want that to be water then it ain't water, fuck. It's you, so...ya dig?

C: So is there anybody you're competing against?

Lil Wayne: Ask Oscar De La Hoya because he's a beast, because he caught Floyd Mayweather and Floyd Mayweather got like 10 million and they say he [Oscar] got like 25 million. When Michael Buffer started speaking he didn't say broadcasting live from Showtime HBO, that nigga said, his first words were, "Brought to you by Golden Boy Promotions..." That's his fight, I don't give a fuck, beat me, you made my fight, [claps] thank you. Can you please whoop my ass again on TV? It was the most viewed fight ever in history; I broke records, thank you. That's how you gotta think man, that nigga's a monster. Him, Tom from MySpace and Bill Gates, I just wanna smoke three blunts with them, just three, just three blunts, I bet you I'll come back high, whoo, them niggas are beast.

C: What about Mark Cuban?

Lil Wayne: He's a G for real, I saw him coming out of my condos one day with an iPod on him and two big niggas with him, ain't no security. They were just rocking, three together. I ain't got no racist issues, but when you see a cracker with two niggas, you know that cracker got all that money, he don't even need to see a nigga, no black people ever need to come in his eyesight he's so rich-and these your homeboys? I respect the fuck out of him for that, you know, and he ain't see me but he saw my homie, he asked him what's popping tonight, he's a G for real, so I fuck with Mark Cuban heavy. I love a nigga who do what the fuck he want, just like I told you, Martin Luther King said we can do what the fuck we want, he do what the fuck he want, him and Bam Margera. What will Bam do next? Whatever the fuck they want...that's one of my favorite shows.

C: [Laughs] What's your writing process like? You just jot everything down?

Lil Wayne: I don't write nothing, I just keep ideas and never fucking use them. I just write down shit, like bad situations or stories. Jot them down as I go, like, cool idea, and if I fucking remember when I'm in the studio-when I'm in the studio, when I hear a new song, I'm going to start a line off fresh and I always just keep going because I be like, "I'm killing it right now but I know I got some bad ass ideas written down."

C: How do you lay down your verses?

Lil Wayne: Sporadically. I just be chilling, drinking, smoking and I'm like turn the mic on. I visualize a lot of things too, I like to see it before I say it, how I want to look on the video or if it's going to be a single, I take it all the way down to if I was rapping this motherfucker song a capella to a person that don't know or like me, that's how I approach every song, how can I get a person to pay attention to it? I ain't gotta get you to like me but I can get a person to pay attention. Like, the people you're sitting next to on the plane and they're wondering why the fuck you're sitting next to them in first class, I want them to be able to ask me a question and I'll be able to start rapping to them and they don't even know it's a rap. That's how you do it, that's how you bring people into whatever you want to bring them into. Home // CELEBRITIES // COVER STORY // Lil Wayne: Uncut