DX: Do you think having a daughter has made you more mature, or changed you?
Lil Wayne: My dad passed when I was 14. So I kind of became my mom’s husband at 14. I took over the house note, car note. Responsibility became real serious to me at 14. Then I had my daughter at 15, 16. It was just another responsibility for me to take care of. And I’m all about responsibility. What I am being is what I’m trying to be. I wouldn’t say it changed me.

DX: How do you feel about the Southern explosion in hip-hop?
Lil Wayne: I don’t even care if nobody from the South drop another album as long as Cash Money and Young Money still afloat and me, I’m still doing my thing. The South don’t have nothing to worry about. I mean, we’ve been listening to that music for so long. People outside of the South just getting a taste of it. That’s our music. Yeah, it’s cool. People say how do you feel about that? The South been out.