The last rapper to "sell one million copies in it's first week" talked to Chris Norris from Rolling Stone... For those of you who didn't buy the Magazine (Issue 1098 — February 18, 2010]) read what the hardest working artist has to say...
When I ask him if he's an addict, he says, "I'm a very successful addict. And a very smart one. And a very charismatic one. And one that just won four Grammys, and one that sold a million records in a week. One that still appears on everybody's songs, one that still sounds better than any rapper rapping. One that has four kids and is the greatest father ever to the kids." He laughs. "What am I addicted to, being great?"...
"I went from being a rookie — just pure motivation — to noticing that 'OK, I'm becoming different.' Once I got a whiff of that, it made me keep going." Wayne stopped writing down lyrics — he says it freed him up to be more expressive in the studio. "I started thinking, 'You are kind of crazy, in a great way.'"
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