Rap fans are taking sides after people on social media discovered that Drake and Lil Wayne used a teleprompter during a recent performance.
Over the weekend, Weezy showed up as a special guest at the latest stop on Drizzy's It's All a Blur – Big as the What? Tour in Sunrise, Florida. A clip of the performance circulating on social media shows a teleprompter displaying the lyrics as the two perform "Right Above It," Weezy's 2010 hit single with Drake.
Since then, fans have taken to Twitter to sound off on the use of a teleprompter for a live show.
“I have a question about this video of Drake and Lil Wayne… Is it normal that rappers have teleprompters with their lyrics on it?” wrote X user @Maha_Sattva in the main conversation-sparking tweet. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this before. So it’s karaoke then?”
Popular account Hip Hop by the Numbers came to Wayne's defense.
"Wayne has 3,501 songs on Genius," they replied to the previous user's post. "He has a song entitled 10,000 bars which has 7k words. If Weezy needs a teleprompter that's ok."
Granted, Wayne has never shied away from admitting that he has trouble remembering his own lyrics.
Back in 2020, during a conversation with Eminem on Young Money Radio, Wayne revealed he has to Google his own lyrics to "make sure I didn't say certain stuff before."
"If you look in my phone history, with Google history, and you press the letter L, it comes up ‘Lil Wayne lyrics.’ I literally have to Google my own lyrics to make sure I didn’t say certain stuff before," he told Em.
The Detroit rapper added, “Oh my God! I swear to God I do that too. I just did that shit last night. Man, that’s funny as hell. I been doing that for the past five years! You be like, ‘Oh, I knew I flipped this before.’"
It's also worth pointing out—as many did on X—that teleprompters are common practice for bands and artists of various sizes across genres.
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