‘Nowadays, for me, it’s about what I’m saying,’ Weezy tells MTV News about his writing. By Jayson Rodriguez, with reporting by Sway Calloway Lil Wayne Photo: MTV News While Lil Wayne was away in prison, the common perception was that he’d pull out his pen and put rhymes down on paper until his release. That process is much more formal than Weezy’s normal recording routine, of course, as the rapper is more apt to spit lyrics from memory — a practice also used by Jay-Z, Fabolous and T.I., among others. But during Wayne’s eight months behind bars, the Cash Money superstar says he barely put his thoughts down in writing. “Sit down and write something down, nah. I’m not writing at all,” Wayne told MTV News about his creative process while incarcerated. “There was just a lot of material that I wrote in there and I came home and transformed it into something better. A lot of it, when I came home I thought I would perform it the way I wrote it, but it wasn’t possible, so I took bits and pieces and rejuvenated it.” According to the “6 Foot 7 Foot” rapper explained that, like an athlete, he feels his skills declining, although he maintains that the loss is offset by a greater aptitude in his lyrics. “When I listen to the old stuff of mine, I be mad because I’m like, I can’t even do that no more, man. I feel like I’m getting old — how did I even think about that then?” he said. “But you know, the difference is, it’s not about what you were saying, it was about how you said it back then. What I mean by that is, if you had a flow and you’re just like, ‘Dun, dun, dun, dun,’ you know, you rhyming all these words — it was about how you said it. Even a person who doesn’t listen to rap can say, ‘I don’t know what he saying, but he saying it.’ But nowadays, for me, it’s about what I’m saying. So now, if you don’t listen to rap and you hear it, you’re like, ‘I don’t know if I like what he’s saying, but I damn sure understand what he saying and it was very clever what he said.’ ” The New Orleans rapper is putting the final touches on his next studio album — and his first project since his release from prison this past November — Tha Carter IV. But first, Wayne is set for the television which will take place on MTV on Thursday (March 3) at 7:54 p.m. ET. Related Artists Lil Wayne
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If you watch the Oscar’s Sunday night, then you know “The King’s Speech” took home the major win. Last night, Jimmy Kimmel made sure he was the first person to make his own parody to the Oscar winning film, Tyler Perry Presents “The President’s Speech” starring Mike Tyson and George W. Bush… With one of the worst speech impediments in the world, Mike Tyson trying to help George W. Bush with his speech— Priceless!!!
Though ‘King’s Speech’ is the established front-runner, ‘Social Network’ director may be more deserving of Academy Award. By Eric Ditzian Justin Timberlake and Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network” Photo: Sony Pictures Can we begin speaking about the Best Director race by shouting out a man whose mug won’t be thrust up on the screen when the Academy Award category is presented on Sunday night? Would that be dredging up sour — at this point, moldy — grapes? Too bad! Let’s kick off this installment of MTV News’ Oscar previews by stating something that should not be forgotten: “Inception” director Christopher Nolan got robbed. Dude made maybe the brainiest popcorn flick in history — one whose story shifted between five separate realities, yet managed both to avoid being excessively confusing and to reward further viewings. It grossed over $820 million worldwide and earned Nolan directorial nods from the Golden Globes, Directors Guild of America and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). And yet, no directorial Oscar nod? Please! A Best Picture nomination at the Oscars is welcome, surely, but simply not enough. Mr. Nolan, we’ll pour one out for you and continue on with the preview. That snub aside, only two directors ever really had a chance to triumph in this category — Tom Hooper for “The King’s Speech” and David Fincher for “The Social Network” — and on Oscar night, either one could win. In Hooper’s favor is the fact that “The King’s Speech” has established itself as the general front-runner, leading the field with 12 Oscar nominations and dominating the Screen Actors Guild Awards, the Producers Guild Awards and the DGAs, among others. The DGAs are historically a very accurate predictor of the Best Director winner at the Oscars; only six times has the DGA winner failed to win the Oscar, most recently in 2002 when Rob Marshall (“Chicago”) won the DGA but lost out to Roman Polanski (“The Pianist”) for the Oscar. What’s more, Oscar blogger Sasha Stone points out that only once before — with “Gladiator” in 2000 — has a Best Picture winner with 12 nominations lost out on the Directing award. So if we accept that “The King’s Speech” is a lock to win Best Picture, we’d be taking on serious odds if we argued Hooper will lose to Fincher. Our heads, then, tell us Hooper will come out on top. Yet our hearts keep telling us the “Social Network” director will end up the victor. Not because he won the BAFTA. Not because we think voters don’t have a vested interest in punishing Fincher for declining to endure the tiresome glad-handing traditionally expected of nominees and instead going off to shoot “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” in Scandinavia. No, we have a feeling Fincher is going to eke out a win because he’s the most deserving nominee. Like Nolan, Fincher weaved together several different realities — in his case, one Harvard-based present and two lawsuit-consumed flash-forwards — gracefully and without a touch of audience bewilderment. Credit, of course, also has to go to scribe Aaron Sorkin and editors Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter (all of whom are nominated in their respective categories), but Fincher is a known control freak and, in the end, “The Social Network” is his baby. His storytelling facility combined with his movie’s au courant theme of digital, often insincere interconnection at the expense of compassion and true relationship-building make for a potent combination. With “The King’s Speech” and “The Fighter” potentially dominating the major categories, voters might well decide “The Social Network” deserves some top-tier love in the form of a Fincher win. In fact, we’re going to take a risk, avoid any fence-sitting and call it: David Fincher will win this year’s Oscar for Best Director. Will it be a regal evening for “The King’s Speech”? Can “The Social Network” dial up Oscar gold? Don’t miss MTV News’ “2011 Oscars Live” at 6 p.m. Sunday, February 27, when we’ll be chatting with your favorite Hollywood stars live from the red carpet on MTVNews.com, and stick with us all Oscar night for winners, interviews, photos and more! Related Videos Join Us Live At The 2011 Oscars! Related Photos 2011 Academy Award Nominees
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