B.G & Lil Wayne News

Lil Wayne is not trying to act like he invented the wheel or even the auto-tune device that has been re-popularized by T-Pain. No doubt, Weezy has been using the same voice-alteration method lately in songs like the "Dey Know" remix and most notably his new single (yes, a single — for those of you who doubted it would ever come) "Lollipop" (R.I.P. Static). The Birdman Jr. names Pain as one of the people in music who inspired him.

"I am music. That's me, Jack," Wayne declared. "I found a new love for music, and I got to owe it to a lot of people in the game. They don't even know. I got to owe a lot to T-Pain. He made me really look at myself. I always look at somebody like, 'I can't do what you do, but man, I damn sure wish I could.' So when I figure out what I could do about that, I go and do it. So every time I get a chance to say it, T-Pain, Prince, Wyclef, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, Lenny Kravitz — all these are people I looked at the past two years.

I viewed them seriously and was like, 'Wow, I could do that without being totally them.' I can present it as Lil Wayne..."
Don't go thinking "Lollipop" is the only new song Wayne has coming in advance of Tha Carter III. There's a record called "A Millie" that's supposed to drop soon too.
Uptown New Orleans. The 13th Ward. Upperline Street, to pinpoint the location. That's where B.G. grew up and was inspired to make his music.

"I stayed here from maybe, like, 8 years old to probably 16," Gizzle told us on our trip to N.O. "When the Baby Gangster was the baby gangster. I had one brother, man. It was me, my mom and my brother. That's all."
B.G. went on to be a better gangster and moved out of the fold at age 16. But before that -- and before the record deal at 13 and touring with Cash Money Records — his childhood was pretty much on par with the norm.

"Wrasslin'!" He answered about what he and his young bro would be doing in the house. "Or I would be out. I spent a lot of time out. I would have some friends over. I spent the night over at their house, or they would be over my house. When I got older, I would be on the phone all hours of the night. I went to being a hot boy. I used to post up, making love on the phone."
One of the juveniles he would have over to his crib was a little Lil Wayne.

"Wayne used to come through when we was young," B.G. remembered. "We would write raps together in the kitchen. I would go by his crib and write raps with him. ... Man, I pretty much wrote my whole Chopper City album in there: 'So Much Debt.' 'Uptown Thing.'
"Baby took me under his wing when I was 13," he continued. "My first album comes out, second album, Chopper City, comes out. After that, I was wildin'. I'd come back [to the neighborhood] and blend right back in. This is where I felt the most comfortable."
B.G.'s Too Hood to Be Hollywood comes out in the summer.

Source: MTV