Lil Wayne Recite's First Rap to Katie Couric – 'There's so Much Wrong with That' She Says (VIDEO)
Lil Wayne taped an appearance on morning talk show, "Katie," where show host Katie Couric asked the rapper if he could recite his first rap song.
The now 30-year-old Wayne said he wrote the rap when he was eight, and later performed it when he was 12 for Bryan "Baby" Williams, an opportunity that got him signed to Cash Money Records.
"I was from Hollygrove, and I had a rap where I made an acronym for Hollygrove, and I just said some things, and I was only 12, you guys," Wayne said as he sheepishly tried to avoid rapping the lines.
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What followed was a shockingly adult song for someone of the age he claimed to be when he wrote it.
"H is for high, like we always get... And then the O was for Olive Branch which was a street...The double L was for low lives who love to pull the trigger. The Y was for yes. Yes, yes, my brother. I'm Lil Wayne from Hollygrove, mother lovers," (drug references and curses edited out. To hear full censored version, click here.)
As Wayne finished Couric, like much of the audience were a bit stunned at what they just heard.
"There's so much wrong with that," Couric said as Wayne embarrassingly nodded.
Wayne said his lyrics were harsh because he was trying to impress the older boys in the neighborhood, a reflection of his environment.
"You know what it was?" Lil Wayne asked Couric. "When I wrote it, I imagined rapping it for the guys on the corner ... and they were much older. I didn't imagine going to school and saying, 'Hey, listen to this.' Actually, I didn't even tell my friends in school that I wrote raps."
Wayne released his first album at 17-years-old in 1999, The Block is Hot.
