Lil Wayne
has huge aspirations for Young Money franchise player Drake. But hey, you don’t
become as big a superstar as Wayne is by thinking small.
In footage
from DJ Scoob Doo’s upcoming “Nino Brown Story, Pt. 3” DVD, Weezy
calls Mack Maine from prison, and they talk about the sales of Drake’s upcoming
Thank Me Later. Wayne hadn’t heard the completed LP before he went to prison in
March.
“What
that boy’s sh– sounding like?” Wayne asks Mack. “A million in a
week?”
“Yeah.
Like a classic. Big money,” Mack answers.
“A
million in a week? I need him to do more than Tha Carter III,” Weezy adds
of his breakthrough album, which sold more than 1 million copies in its debut
week. “Like 2 million in the first week. I need him to do 2 million the
first week, straight up.”
“Let’s
get it. Ya heard me,” Mack answers with a smile. “We gotta put this
out.”
Wayne then
goes back to asking his nearly lifelong friend about the music on Thank Me
Later.
“What’s
it sounding like? He singing his ass off?” the YM CEO asks.
“That
n—a got some songs,” Mack says with excitement. “One of them he let
me hear, ‘Karaoke.’ It was some singing, I was like, ‘When your part come in?’
Picture that was him the whole time. I’m like, ‘Who this n—a? When your verse
come in?’ That n—a got different tones now, blood. He’s got different tones
now. Sh– we ain’t never heard before. He’s killing it.”
Wayne
later tells Mack that his own Tha Carter IV is going to be another major
project and that he wants Thank Me Later to sell 10 million copies overall.
“I
need [Drake] to do diamond,” Wayne says. “And I try to top that. I
need him to do that. He’s gonna sell.”
While in
prison, Wayne is already thinking about his first performance when he comes
home. “Come straight offstage with the [state] greens on and just go
stupid on them,” Wayne says of what he’s going to do. “I should do it
the same night I get out.” (Via
MTV News)
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