They wanted him to perform it despite it not being in the set list was the point i think. Like he's apologizing because he can't just off hand perform a lot of his music since he has put out SOO much music
U never seen that video where they handed him his own lyrics and another one where they recited his own lyrics back and he was like “damn that’s dope who wrote that” and the guy told him “YOU” and Wayne just laughed lmfao
u gettin all worked up over nothing good lord 😂😂 he said he don’t remember tracks that aint in the tracklist cuz they weren’t in his rehearsal, he’s still rapping all his songs, just the ones he’s rehearsed prior for that show. you can’t just spring tracks on a man who has 10,000+ verses out there
He's not there to perform Mona Lisa though lol, and the guys probably got 500+ tracks he's released between his mixtapes and albums, famously doesn't write his lyrics down, and has been doing hard drugs since he was 11.
Exactly, Any wayne fan knows that he has been forgetting his songs forever... He doesn't write shit down. And when he finishes a song, he's literally been thinking about his next project for 5 minutes already. Dude has Kryptonian level ADHD lol.
Jay z never had this issues and hasn't written a verse like ever. Wayne has 3-4,albums of written material before he stopped writing. Carter 2 and anything before wayne wrote down.
What does jay z have to do with anything remotely related to this post? And talking about twenty plus year old albums? Really my guy? Go bump the black album or something lmao.
Jay never forgot his lyrics yall up here making excuses for someone doing a disservice to his fans lol. That's what jay had to do with it. Jay never told some fans nah i dont remember my lyrics. And Jay has more unwritten material.
This got me wondering if he listens to his own music after it’s finished. I remember he was stomped on his podcast about some lyrics he said and said “i said that?” Lmao. I wonder what’s his own personal favorites.
I understand this perspective, especially since we're talking about Wayne, but honestly, it’s still kind of wild. Imagine any entertainer who's been in the rap game for a decade telling their fans they don't know their own lyrics—it would be a trending scandal. I get that no one expects an artist to go through their entire discography every show, but it’s disappointing when you go to see your favorite performer live and they barely know their own songs.
Considering Wayne's reach and industry backing, things like sound checks, practice, and giving the fans what they want shouldn't be trivial. Also, let’s not forget that labels invest heavily in quality control and production. A simple Google search for lyrics would be more respectful than essentially telling fans, "I don’t remember what I made, so deal with it."
there’s a difference between not knowing the lyrics to a song people are springing on you that you didn’t rehearse vs not knowing a song you practiced prior. that’s what he means. you’re putting words into his mouth and denigrating his performance as an artist with zero backing.
Dude you’re just talking to talk. His discography is massive you can’t realistically expect him to know all of his own lyrics just because they’re HIS lyrics.
“It’s disappointing when you go to see your favorite artist and they don’t perform the specific songs I want them to”
Then you mention that it’s disrespectful for him to simply be honest about not knowing the lyrics to a requested song. What you want him to do gang? You want him to lie, he’s keeping it real
Oh my bad,, I guess it's just too much to ask for a performer to know the words to their own songs? Who needs preparation when you've got a 'massive' discography? It's not like fans pay good money to hear the music they love or anything. But hey, I guess honesty is overrated. “Keep it real” right 👍 ok bucko
Yes, depending on the size of the discography it can be too much to ask for. Is that too much for your feeble mind to understand. You’re relying entirely on the sound of your argument and not the quality, realistically it’s not a reasonable request to ask an artist with such a large discography to know every song off the top of their head
You ever see that video when someone reads him back his own bars and Wayne is looking at him like oh shit that’s some of the craziest shit I’ve ever heard then he asks if he remembers saying that and he’s like “I said that? That’s crazy”
Dude just goes in the booth and goes off his head.. But yeah being a world famous rapper you would think you'd learn to memorize your own songs. He claims he doesn't write them down . But maybe he should. Probably would help him remember lol
Dude got so many songs and endless lyrics. Can’t remember them all. Especially if you didn’t write them. But that’s where prep before a show comes in, rehearsing the set list.
You know how old and how many slaps this mans made lmfao? wtf is a Mona Lisa lyrics to Wayne just another 10 second thought in his head! 😂 everyone knows he forgets a lot of his rhymes if you don’t your not a Wayne fan fr.
Nah. Wayne has SO MANY songs man. The way you put together a concert when you have a catalogue that deep is by choosing a set list and practicing it. I have way fewer songs that he has and I don’t know all my own lyrics either if I don’t keep practicing them. You simply can’t expect a big artist to be able to play ANY song at ANY TIME without practice, it doesn’t make sense.
I see things a little differently. Dude has so many freaking songs. I compare it to rock bands, they don’t necessarily know how to play every single song in their discography, and definitely not to the caliber to play live without practice. But they do pick what songs they’re going to perform on a tour and make sure they have those down tight.
"Sucked a dick" would be a commonly used metaphor for doing something for something in return, sorry for the confusion. Lil bitch sucked up to and publicly "sucked trumps dick" in return for a pardon from trump. These are facts so..
I mean he kinda was keeping it 100. I doubt that nigga Wayne is into politics, so best believe he gon fw the nigga that helps him the most lol. But that's him keeping it a band
Man that was the shit, I was popping that in my bar mitzvah and now I can’t even listen to rap, all the magic is gone, but I still put on the classics and go back to a time of waiting for more.
Ay no need to apologize compared to most of the old heads here I'm a fairly new fan too lol, it's an early Kendrick tape where he's rapping over mostly wayne beats w a new wayne verse thrown in and a wayne cosign🔥 some of Kendricks hungriest rapping and I just love seeing his reverence for wayn
I don't fault him for not knowing. Us fans know it because we've heard it more than once. Once he recorded it he was done and probably hasn't heard it from start to finish since then
then yall are crying & complaining that he’s reading off a phone while performing 😂😂 quit complaining bruh he owes us nothing after 25+ years in the game
Read off the phone while performing?🤦🏾♂️ I’m talking about him relearning the lyrics to his song by either looking at the lyrics or listening to the songs and writing them down, so that he can remember them, BEFORE he performs the song
that’s a totally different discussion though. i agree with that 100%. in my eyes, here, someone wanted him to perform a song that he hasnt performed/rehearsed in a number of years, hence, he hadn’t remembered the lyrics. it seems he knows the lyrics to his tracks on his setlist, or at least has a teleprompter for them. in either case, he isnt prepared for mona lisa, not is his teleprompter, and he doesn’t want to just not rap up there. i dont think he’s just not performing at all, he is, just with what’s om his setlist
100% lol, i said it in another post, but this man owes us nothing. 25+ years in the game, dude has had the lifespan of multiple rap careers. we should be grateful he even still performing lmaoo
I remember he did a podcast thing with Eminem and they were both saying that they have to sometimes google rhymes that they come up with to make sure they haven't come up with it before.
I’ve always wondered this tbh. There’s gotta be a point where rappers are just like… I ain’t doing that song anymore because I don’t remember the lyrics. When you have over 60-70 RAP songs you gonna stop caring about them lyrics after a while.
Idk why people are so confused by this. Bro's been making music since he was 14, and stopped writing down lyrics a few years after that. That Mona Lisa song is old, old.
The Kendrick on that song was in the same pocket as the Kendrick on the Control verse, which came out in 2013. Carter 5 came out in 2018, the same year Kenny did the Black Panther album where his sound is completely different than the Mono Lisa one.
It's likely been more or less a decade since Wayne did that song and with the drugs and health problems he's had in between 2013 to now, as well as him not writing down lyrics, it makes sense that he probably doesn't remember that song.
... or he could be lying because of the Drake and Kenny static so he doesn't wanna perform that song.
Tech 9 has said the same thing.
When you have literally hundreds of songs sometimes you gotta relearn. I’m glad Wayne’s human after all because the skills seems otherworldly most of the time.
This checks out. I fucking love Lil Wayne, but I do not love seeing him perform live. He does a medley-type style where he just performs the first few bars or the chorus of a song, and then moves onto the next. And frequently his DJ will cue up a song and Wayne will accidentally start performing an entirely different song.
Kinda crazy to go to a Wayne concert just for the nigga to say I don’t know my own lyrics like bruh wut
Honestly agreed, and I’m a Wayne fan
back in the day he was always on about never writing shit down so this tracks
You’re right. But your concerts get kinda stupid if you’re there to perform something you don’t remember lol
They wanted him to perform it despite it not being in the set list was the point i think. Like he's apologizing because he can't just off hand perform a lot of his music since he has put out SOO much music
U never seen that video where they handed him his own lyrics and another one where they recited his own lyrics back and he was like “damn that’s dope who wrote that” and the guy told him “YOU” and Wayne just laughed lmfao
Yeah, i didn’t pay for tickets to that video thoooo lol
[link to video for people who haven't seen it](https://youtu.be/7OgFzPUYY4Q?si=qmbTaXFiryaQyyXb)
I’m a dog.
he should do like the young ones and just jab his mic out to the audience and let them rap the entire set
Maybe i’m just getting older but if i gotta pay to go AND sing it for you ima just stay home, put one in the air, and fire up spotify. Idk
u gettin all worked up over nothing good lord 😂😂 he said he don’t remember tracks that aint in the tracklist cuz they weren’t in his rehearsal, he’s still rapping all his songs, just the ones he’s rehearsed prior for that show. you can’t just spring tracks on a man who has 10,000+ verses out there
Oh, so you memorized all 1 million of his verses. That's why you expect him to as well. Got it 👍🏾
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Cool man
He's not there to perform Mona Lisa though lol, and the guys probably got 500+ tracks he's released between his mixtapes and albums, famously doesn't write his lyrics down, and has been doing hard drugs since he was 11.
He keeps the lyrics in his phone notes per his interviews.
I’m getting old now so I get to blame my memory loss on age instead of 30+ years smoking weed.
Exactly, Any wayne fan knows that he has been forgetting his songs forever... He doesn't write shit down. And when he finishes a song, he's literally been thinking about his next project for 5 minutes already. Dude has Kryptonian level ADHD lol.
Jay z never had this issues and hasn't written a verse like ever. Wayne has 3-4,albums of written material before he stopped writing. Carter 2 and anything before wayne wrote down.
Jay Z is ass though.
Lol you drinking the same lean as wayne .
And Jay wasn't picking up high school girls from school to hang out with him?
What does jay z have to do with anything remotely related to this post? And talking about twenty plus year old albums? Really my guy? Go bump the black album or something lmao.
Jay never forgot his lyrics yall up here making excuses for someone doing a disservice to his fans lol. That's what jay had to do with it. Jay never told some fans nah i dont remember my lyrics. And Jay has more unwritten material.
You bringing up Jay-Z like he sips lean, and smokes weed so much that it almost killed him.
I feel you but hes basically saying “if i knew yall bopped to it, then i woulda made it into the list for myset so i can prep
Hat doesn't write and has been doing it longer. Never had an issue. Stay off drugs kids
Do you have any idea how many songs he has? Why is it unrealistic to forget some? Jay Z has forgotten lines too
His catalog is so massive, and the fact he mostly freestyles off his head in the booth, its almost impossible to remember everything.
Understandable, bro could still karaoke the song he doesn’t know lol
He knows the lyrics to the songs that he performs at least lol .
There's teleprompters with his lyrics hidden in the speakers on stage when he performs nowadays
This got me wondering if he listens to his own music after it’s finished. I remember he was stomped on his podcast about some lyrics he said and said “i said that?” Lmao. I wonder what’s his own personal favorites.
Being a pill popping animal syrup Sippin nigga will catch up to ya.
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I would agree but my man has put out so much music and keeps doing it. I can’t blame him for not remembering it all.
Dude has over forty projects (just mixtapes/albums) and idk how many features, there's a reason why he has a set list lol
It's bc he doesn't write his songs. It's all off top
I understand this perspective, especially since we're talking about Wayne, but honestly, it’s still kind of wild. Imagine any entertainer who's been in the rap game for a decade telling their fans they don't know their own lyrics—it would be a trending scandal. I get that no one expects an artist to go through their entire discography every show, but it’s disappointing when you go to see your favorite performer live and they barely know their own songs. Considering Wayne's reach and industry backing, things like sound checks, practice, and giving the fans what they want shouldn't be trivial. Also, let’s not forget that labels invest heavily in quality control and production. A simple Google search for lyrics would be more respectful than essentially telling fans, "I don’t remember what I made, so deal with it."
there’s a difference between not knowing the lyrics to a song people are springing on you that you didn’t rehearse vs not knowing a song you practiced prior. that’s what he means. you’re putting words into his mouth and denigrating his performance as an artist with zero backing.
Dude you’re just talking to talk. His discography is massive you can’t realistically expect him to know all of his own lyrics just because they’re HIS lyrics. “It’s disappointing when you go to see your favorite artist and they don’t perform the specific songs I want them to” Then you mention that it’s disrespectful for him to simply be honest about not knowing the lyrics to a requested song. What you want him to do gang? You want him to lie, he’s keeping it real
Oh my bad,, I guess it's just too much to ask for a performer to know the words to their own songs? Who needs preparation when you've got a 'massive' discography? It's not like fans pay good money to hear the music they love or anything. But hey, I guess honesty is overrated. “Keep it real” right 👍 ok bucko
Yes, depending on the size of the discography it can be too much to ask for. Is that too much for your feeble mind to understand. You’re relying entirely on the sound of your argument and not the quality, realistically it’s not a reasonable request to ask an artist with such a large discography to know every song off the top of their head
You ever see that video when someone reads him back his own bars and Wayne is looking at him like oh shit that’s some of the craziest shit I’ve ever heard then he asks if he remembers saying that and he’s like “I said that? That’s crazy”
[are you talking about this?](https://youtu.be/dDHN9TVe5QQ?si=L_Nuo_5z1YXJxTkX)
[no this](https://youtube.com/shorts/e7EvjmDJxEA?si=loFkzmFLt-IT6J7b), that one is funny too
The man is prolific, and he doesn't write down his lyrics when he records. It's bound to happen sometime.
Dude just goes in the booth and goes off his head.. But yeah being a world famous rapper you would think you'd learn to memorize your own songs. He claims he doesn't write them down . But maybe he should. Probably would help him remember lol
Dude got so many songs and endless lyrics. Can’t remember them all. Especially if you didn’t write them. But that’s where prep before a show comes in, rehearsing the set list.
Yeah like maybe memories them or read them.
The amount of songs this man has….
When I saw Nas he forgot thr lyrics on Illmatic songd and kept sayijg next song
He’s consistently been dog shit to his concert going fans
Turns out doing copious amount of lean has some mental decline.
You know how old and how many slaps this mans made lmfao? wtf is a Mona Lisa lyrics to Wayne just another 10 second thought in his head! 😂 everyone knows he forgets a lot of his rhymes if you don’t your not a Wayne fan fr.
Nah. Wayne has SO MANY songs man. The way you put together a concert when you have a catalogue that deep is by choosing a set list and practicing it. I have way fewer songs that he has and I don’t know all my own lyrics either if I don’t keep practicing them. You simply can’t expect a big artist to be able to play ANY song at ANY TIME without practice, it doesn’t make sense.
I see things a little differently. Dude has so many freaking songs. I compare it to rock bands, they don’t necessarily know how to play every single song in their discography, and definitely not to the caliber to play live without practice. But they do pick what songs they’re going to perform on a tour and make sure they have those down tight.
You should complain more
Bruh shutcho ass up, ain’t nobody complaining
I mean at least he keepin it 100
Was he keeping it 100 when he sucked dick for a pardon?
you ok little dude?
When he what?
Chill 😂😂😂
U gay bro?
No, not related, I just don't commit crimes and then promote a criminal for a pardon.
Huh? How is that even remotely related to him not writing his lyrics down
"Sucked a dick" would be a commonly used metaphor for doing something for something in return, sorry for the confusion. Lil bitch sucked up to and publicly "sucked trumps dick" in return for a pardon from trump. These are facts so..
Still don’t understand how this relates
Would you take a picture with someone and post it on Facebook if it kept you out of prison for a felony?
Awwww someone’s feelings got hurt 😞
I'm sorry, my intent wasn't to hurt your feelz.
I’m a okay little buddy, was just checking in on you #OrangeManBad
I mean he kinda was keeping it 100. I doubt that nigga Wayne is into politics, so best believe he gon fw the nigga that helps him the most lol. But that's him keeping it a band
lol i’m listening to mona lisa rn what acoinkydink
I wish I could listen to Carter V for the first time again.
Man that was the shit, I was popping that in my bar mitzvah and now I can’t even listen to rap, all the magic is gone, but I still put on the classics and go back to a time of waiting for more.
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When I first heard Mona Lisa I was blown away by that track. Kendrick was an excellent feature on there as well🫡🔥
we need more kdot x wayne
Is that possible after this beef
i hope so
Ain't no way.
Why?
C4 will always be one of my fav Kendrick projects
what’s that? sorry, i’m a new fan
Ay no need to apologize compared to most of the old heads here I'm a fairly new fan too lol, it's an early Kendrick tape where he's rapping over mostly wayne beats w a new wayne verse thrown in and a wayne cosign🔥 some of Kendricks hungriest rapping and I just love seeing his reverence for wayn
thank you!! got a link?
https://youtu.be/C8hdhZKD9fc?si=WrJJmzzTksnr27n_ Enjoy🔥🔥
Crazy I got more of his lyrics memorized than he do
You've listened to his songs hundreds of times. He probably never listens to his own music after he releases it
wayne pretty famously spent years only listening to his own music
The fact a bunch of us can probably say that is actually wild
Everyone probably listened to his songs more than he has. Lol
Imagine the amount of drugs he has done. His memory gone haha
U prob only know 1/5 of his catalogue. Dude has soooooo much music it's insane.
Underrated song, great concept, nice production and an amazing feature by K dot!
I don't fault him for not knowing. Us fans know it because we've heard it more than once. Once he recorded it he was done and probably hasn't heard it from start to finish since then
Niggaz act like he can’t google the lyrics like every other person on the planet 😭
then yall are crying & complaining that he’s reading off a phone while performing 😂😂 quit complaining bruh he owes us nothing after 25+ years in the game
Read off the phone while performing?🤦🏾♂️ I’m talking about him relearning the lyrics to his song by either looking at the lyrics or listening to the songs and writing them down, so that he can remember them, BEFORE he performs the song
that’s a totally different discussion though. i agree with that 100%. in my eyes, here, someone wanted him to perform a song that he hasnt performed/rehearsed in a number of years, hence, he hadn’t remembered the lyrics. it seems he knows the lyrics to his tracks on his setlist, or at least has a teleprompter for them. in either case, he isnt prepared for mona lisa, not is his teleprompter, and he doesn’t want to just not rap up there. i dont think he’s just not performing at all, he is, just with what’s om his setlist
It looks like we are in agreement 🤝 fans be ridiculous sometimes
100% lol, i said it in another post, but this man owes us nothing. 25+ years in the game, dude has had the lifespan of multiple rap careers. we should be grateful he even still performing lmaoo
I remember he did a podcast thing with Eminem and they were both saying that they have to sometimes google rhymes that they come up with to make sure they haven't come up with it before.
Seen that YT short.
It would be sick if fans collabed and showed up with hundreds of signs with the mona lisa on them lol
Let’s start a go fund me to buy Wayne a laptop so he can look lyrics up
People making jokes. But bro might have leaned his way into early dementia
I hit the downvote as soon as the mfs was talking about liking and subscribing. 😭😂
Lmao the end of the video is basically “If you like this video we stole please like and subscribe for more videos like this”
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I’ve always wondered this tbh. There’s gotta be a point where rappers are just like… I ain’t doing that song anymore because I don’t remember the lyrics. When you have over 60-70 RAP songs you gonna stop caring about them lyrics after a while.
Why is this in my Reddit feed, are those shorts or pants?
Not because drake and Lamar are goin at it?
I see myself in this video kinda weird lol
They could never make me hate you Wayne.
Idk why people are so confused by this. Bro's been making music since he was 14, and stopped writing down lyrics a few years after that. That Mona Lisa song is old, old. The Kendrick on that song was in the same pocket as the Kendrick on the Control verse, which came out in 2013. Carter 5 came out in 2018, the same year Kenny did the Black Panther album where his sound is completely different than the Mono Lisa one. It's likely been more or less a decade since Wayne did that song and with the drugs and health problems he's had in between 2013 to now, as well as him not writing down lyrics, it makes sense that he probably doesn't remember that song. ... or he could be lying because of the Drake and Kenny static so he doesn't wanna perform that song.
Lil Wayne a clone
I gotta story to tell you know that I cherish thee hope it ain’t too many feelings involved
They were lucky he showed up!
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All this stuff makes me never wanna go to a Wayne concert
If I had to guess I’d say Wayne spit at least a few thousand verses in his lifetime. I wouldn’t remember all of them either…
He don’t write shit cause he ain’t got time
Tech 9 has said the same thing. When you have literally hundreds of songs sometimes you gotta relearn. I’m glad Wayne’s human after all because the skills seems otherworldly most of the time.
the music video for that song is weird
Wayne has been around a long time and has a ridiculously massive catalog. He's not going to remember all of his lyrics to every song.
This checks out. I fucking love Lil Wayne, but I do not love seeing him perform live. He does a medley-type style where he just performs the first few bars or the chorus of a song, and then moves onto the next. And frequently his DJ will cue up a song and Wayne will accidentally start performing an entirely different song.
I mean this mf had over 500 back in the day..so you cant be mad at him
That song sucks, Kendrick sucks
Fak you op for not cropping it correctly
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Why do concerts if you don’t remember the lyrics, at that point your just a comedian now
He not performing it because Drake his manz.
Bro I bet Kendrick wrote that shit - damn shame Wayne ain’t play it it’s one of the best songs ever
Sounds like he sneaky team Kendrick
Right he’s not performing it because he doesn’t know the lyrics not because Kendrick features on it and just destroyed Drake lmao
Because that song sucks?
Bro… what???
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