just felt it was time and then it was just me and him anyway and I didn’t want to do a solo. I wanted to do a group album with him and I wanted to name it Like Father, Like Son. You and Wayne seem to have a very special relationship, I was talking to Wayne the other day and he wholeheartedly thinks of you as a father figure. In what ways is he like a son to you? Every way. Really, since I met him he’s been like a son to me. You feel that vibe. I’ve been with the nigga about 15 years, he ain’t nothing but 24 years old, ya heard me. I always been there, and you know where we come from its not too many father figures, you go to the block for that. I was just a young nigga raising young niggas, ya heard me. So in the fifteen years you’ve known Wayne, what is the biggest change you’ve noticed in him? See, he’s been a man to me, a little young man. He took care of home as a lil’ man, he did manly things that grown men did. He’s young but he got an old mindset because he been around older cats all his life. I’ve seen him develop from that, to transform into, ya know, I don’t even know how to tell you that shit, bruh. It’s some unbelievable shit just watching him develop. I can’t even put that shit into words, the way he transformed and how he’s become who he is today, but the shit happened right in front of my eyes. It was like magic. That’s sounds like the definition of fatherhood. So what’s the most important piece of advice you’ve ever given him? We always firm in God, that’s always first, but I always tell him no matter what, however things in life might be, stand up to it, whatever it may be. Don’t never bend, don’t never fold. Ya heard me, homie? That’s just life, we got mouths to feed, muthafuckas depending on you, so it ain’t no room to bend. And as far as the business, I always tell him just make sure you’re shit’s straight. Cause when I was young I made a lot of young mistakes and I don’t want him to make those mistakes because every mistake has a penalty and the penalty is a price. So I try to make sure all his shit is straight with all his acts and everything he’s trying to do. Cause I learned the hard way. When he was talking to Jay-Z, were you ever afraid he was going to leave Cash Money? Nah, I ain’t felt like it was going to happen. I never felt like it was gonna happen. Ma’fuckas trying to take that and twist that but I never felt like that was gonna happen. I mean, niggas come from a different cloth, ya heard me? We’re cut one way. I expect it from them fuck niggas, but I wouldn’t never expect it from my son. The thought of Wayne leaving to go to Def Jam never crossed your mind? I never felt that in my heart. As CEO of Cash Money records what’s the hardest part of your job? Um… really, I don’t really have a hard part as much as I used to when I was young. Right now, my shit is together. All my shit is together, more to my level of attainment. My whole thing now is reproducing new acts. As far as all our business, I’m straight, and that part is the most important, to have your business part straight. If your business ain’t straight, you’re just doing the shit for nothing, you’re all fucked up. What’s the biggest problem in your life right now, either personal or professional? My biggest problem is really just getting my shit back on track cause that Katrina shit kinda took a toll on my life. I had to move my whole family to Miami, and we cool in Miami, I love Miami but I love my home [in New Orleans] and I wish it wouldn’t have happened. It’s a day to day struggle with that, but as far as just living life, we got money, we ain’t complaining. Niggas just enjoying life, enjoying our accomplishments and we still rolling, but I wish none of that shit would have never happened. So speaking of enjoying life, I heard you and Kimora Lee Simmons had a little thing going on. Is that true? I mean, I just don’t put my personal business in the street, dawg. You might hear anything about me, ya heard me? Rumors start, and I don’t put my personal business out there, but if you see it you saw it, if you heard it, you might know, ya heard me? But in due time everything comes out. I respect you for that, but you know this is the sex issue, so I gotta ask you what females in the entertainment industry you wouldn’t mind givin’ it to? Kimora is definitely attractive, she’s the shit. She everything, ya heard me? She a very attractive ma’fucka, ya heard me? I don’t even wanna…
you know what it do, bruh. I feel you, so I saw the “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy” video and you looked pretty swole, dawg. Have you been hitting the gym? Yeah, I been in there everyday, bruh. You know, I can’t be lookin’ all sloppy and shit. Okay, hypothetical situation, say you were gonna be in a porn movie, what would your porn name be? I’d never fuck with that type of thing! What’s the craziest thing a fan has ever done to sleep with you? You know fans go far with shit, bruh. Ma’fuckas follow you from city to city with that shit, boy. But I’m an O.G., so I really don’t fuck with that like that. I give all them women they respect and I don’t put myself out there like that. Maybe when I was young I did a lot of wild shit, but now I don’t fuck with that shit. So, in your opinion, what part of the country has the sexiest women? I’d say the South because we like ‘em thick. That’s my kind of vibe, you feel me? Well, I used to like ‘em thick, I like ‘em slim now. What are your thoughts on safe sex? I mean you gotta do safe sex homie, if you care to live. That’s the way of the world right now, with these hoes; you never know what a muthafucka got. You got to protect yourself. In sex, or in life, or whatever, you gotta protect yourself. Man, I was watching Jay Leno a while back and Wayne was on there talking about some of your whips. I heard you have 50 of them, is that true? Probably about 20, 25, some shit like that. So, I know you’re an O.G., and you’re probably past this stage, but if you were to have to sex in any one of your whips, which one would it be? I fuck in all my whips. Damn, my fault, dawg. So which whip is your favorite to smash in? The Phantom. My wifey loves to fuck in my cars, so we fuck in all of ‘em. It sounds like you gotta good thing going. So, in your opinion, what are some of best rap songs to fuck to? “I Need a Hot Girl.” Okay, you got any other ones? Not too much our music, but really to me, as far as sex, I don’t be into all that shit. Why is the rap culture so overly sexual? You know, that’s all that pimpin’, bruh, it’s all about pimpin’. Okay, so moving from one controversial topic to the next, Gillie Tha Kid claims that he ghostwrote for Wayne. Is there any truth to that? Nah, man. It’s just really for some attention, man. I mean, how can you ghostwrite for Wayne? That’s unbelievable, man. That nigga say shit the mind don’t think, man. I wish that nigga [Gillie Tha Kid] would just get money and chill, man. Maybe the nigga would feel better, man. Ya heard me? So in your opinion, who is the greatest rapper alive? Oh, it’s hands down Weezy Baby, man. But we like that challenge, anybody that feels different, we like that challenge. Every year we prove it, and we gon’ put numbers up. This gon’ be the first year that you really see shit escalate. Where do you think Wayne’s place in rap will be in the future? He’ll always have his rap shit, but the nigga’s looking for other things too. We want to make other acts, too. Ya heard me? That’s one of our goals, he gon’ always be Weezy Baby. He’s gonna work hard at it, like any professional he’s gonna work real hard at it, but we want other acts. Another topic that I gotta have you speak on is Young Buck. He’s been mouthing off about you and Wayne supposedly doing gay shit on a tour bus. Do you care to address the situation? Who mouthing off? Young Buck. I mean, Young Buck can’t mouth off about us, man. He can’t say not a fucking thing about us, all I can say is the mouth is like an ass, anything come out it. The mouth is just like an ass, anything could come out it. 61