Lil Wayne Says He Can’t Remember The Lyrics To His Own Songs Due To Memory Loss

In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Lil Wayne, the rapper hailing from New Orleans, shared that his life has become somewhat of a blur due to his bad memory. 

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He admitted that he now finds it challenging to remember which of his own songs were included in specific albums that contributed to his fame.

“I don’t know ‘Tha Carter III,’ ‘Tha Carter II,’ ‘Tha Carter One’ from ‘Tha Carter IV,'” he admitted.

“And that’s just my God’s honest truth. You could lie, you could ask me about such and such song, I wouldn’t even know what we talking about.”

The 40-year-old rapper, Lil Wayne, revealed that his projects have lost all significance to him because he can't remember them at all.

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During the interview, the rapper, famous for his track "Lollipop," disclosed that his memory loss is so profound that he cannot even remember the release dates of his albums, using "Tha Carter III" as an example.

“That’s how much I don’t know,” Wayne shared before providing a possible explanation as to why his mind doesn’t recollect important facts.

“I work every day, bro every single day,” the “A Milli” rapper said. “And also, I always look at it as the curse part of the gift and the curse.”

According to Wayne, the advantage of having a poor memory is that he possesses an "amazing mind" capable of crafting such successful hits in the first place.

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“I believe that God blessed me with this amazing mind, but would not give me an amazing memory to remember this amazing s–t,” he told Rolling Stone.

Reportedly, Lil Wayne has a history of health problems, which includes a prolonged struggle with epilepsy.

In 2017, as reported by Rolling Stone, the rapper known for "Sucker for Pain" had to cancel a performance in Las Vegas due to experiencing several seizures. During that period, he was reportedly discovered unconscious in his hotel room in Chicago.

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In 2013, Lil Wayne was hospitalized following a sequence of seizures. As reported by the Los Angeles Times, there were widespread beliefs that the rapper's consumption of sizzurp, a recreational drink typically made with cough syrup, might have been a contributing factor to the incident.

Despite facing challenges, Lil Wayne asserted to Rolling Stone in the interview that he has no intentions of slowing down.

“The motivation isn’t to show them that I’m still that dude, which I am,” the “Masked Singer” alum explained.

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“The motivation is to show them why I’m still that dude. That’s the motivation, because I want rappers of the new generation to hopefully get something from that and they continue to still be whoever the dude or woman they are.”