While Lil Wayne was abroad in prison,as one would expect, he had a lot of time to cull out his pen and put rhymes bottomward on cardboard until his release. That action is abundant added academic than Weezy’s accustomed recording routine, of course, as the rapper is added apt to discharge lyrics from anamnesis — a convenance additionally acclimated by Jay-Z, Fabolous and T.I., amid others.

And in fact, during Wayne’s eight months abaft bars, the Cash Money superstar says he did put his thoughts bottomward in writing, but he didn’t abide the addiction already he was released.

“I don’t accept a additional to sit bottomward and address article bottomward now. I’m not autograph at all,” Wayne told MTV News about his accepted artistic process.

“There was aloof a lot of actual that I wrote in there and I came home and adapted it into article better. A lot of it, aback I came home I anticipation I would accomplish it the way I wrote it, but it wasn’t possible, so I took $.25 and pieces and ambulatory it.”

According to the “6 Foot 7 Foot” rapper explained that, like an athlete, he feels his abilities declining, although he maintains that the accident is account by a greater bent in his lyrics.

“When I accept to the old being of mine, I be mad because I’m like, I can’t alike do that no more, man. I feel like I’m accepting old — how did I alike anticipate about that then?” he said. “But you know, the aberration is, it’s not about what you were saying, it was about how you said it aback then. What I beggarly by that is, if you had a breeze and you’re aloof like, ‘Dun, dun, dun, dun,’ you know, you balladry all these words — it was about how you said it. Alike a being who doesn’t accept to rap can say, ‘I don’t apperceive what he saying, but he adage it.’ But nowadays, for me, it’s about what I’m saying. So now, if you don’t accept to rap and you apprehend it, you’re like, ‘I don’t apperceive if I like what he’s saying, but I abuse abiding accept what he adage and it was actual able what he said.’ ”