A seemingly inspired Lil Wayne recently took to video to discuss his role as an innovator in a number of contexts, not just music.

“We was reminiscing on the life of Steve Jobs,” began Wayne. “An..innovator of many things. A very influential man. Most of our lives…I don’t know a person that hasn’t been influenced in some sort of way by this man. We lost that man…I think a lot too soon. Obviously too soon because I’m quite sure that there’s a bunch of people who don’t know who I’m talking about. And that’s when you’ve lost someone too soon.”

“The old cliche: you never know what you had until it’s gone. So we were speaking on it. ‘Man, what if I skate off my roof and just end it all? Or what if…I Sean Kingston the fuck out of myself? I wonder if motherfuckers would…REALLY remember me for the innovator I am. And I was thinking how saturated things get these days, and how easy it is to forget the greatness of something and someone. Today, I plan to take ten minutes or fifteen minutes out of your day and my day to elaborate on the subject.”

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Lil Wayne continued, pointing first to the fact that now “everyone” drinks syrup. Giving credit to UGK – particularly Pimp C – Wayne explained that initially his fans didn’t know what it was. “I wasn’t doing it to be cool. …I can’t blame the kids. I blame you adults. See, it’s okay for a kid to look at somebody and see something and want to be just like it. It’s only right; it’s only human nature. But for an adult to fabricate something for some dumb reason, it messes up our youth, and it messes up the future. So I ask you: what is your reason? Why are you drinking syrup? Why?”

Wayne explained he doesn’t want to be the innovator of syrup – and that he drank it for health reasons – but that he wanted people to know where the culture originated from.

Other topics broached included tattoos, cars (“I was the the first African American rapper with a Bugatti”), and skating – all within the scintillating context of Wayne’s realness.

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