Lil Wayne opens up almost committing suicide

Lil Wayne recently sat down with ESPN’s Josina Anderson and New York Giants player Odell Beckham Jr. for an in-depth interview.

The two Louisiana natives discussed football, music, careers, religion, and opened up about some of their past personal struggles.

“I found my momma’s pistol where she always hide it / I cry, put it to my head and thought about it / Nobody was home to stop me, so I called my auntie / Hung up, then put the gun up to my heart and pondered,” he raps on the song “Let It All Work Out”.

“Too torn apart about it, I aim where my heart was pounding / I shot it, and I woke up with blood all around me / It’s mine, I didn’t die, but as I was dying / God came to my side and we talked about it / He sold me another life and he made a prophet,” the lyrics continue.

Anderson asked Wayne about his thought process in writing about the event in his song and whether he was influenced by the recent suicides of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade.

Lil Wayne says he was just ready to get things off his chest when he decided to record that verse. “The thought process of me doing that verse and what made me do it was just, I was ready to get it off my chest, and if I am going to get it off my chest in any form of way, the best way to do it is to make it rhyme,” Weezy said.

Wayne also spoke about one of the darkest moments of his career which took place recently while he was battling Birdman in court. He said he had a conversation with his mother who asked him if he wants to continue doing this given that he has already accomplished so much and has surpassed everybody.