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Its hard to remember a time when skateboarding wasnt at the forefront of popular culture.
In hip-hop, too, skateboarding seems to have become inescapable.
300 Entertainment, home to Migos and Young Thug, among others, even has its ownskate team.
But it was not always this way.
But today, Waynes detractors no doubt seem foolish.
to be fully committed, you have to live that lifestyle, he said.
With these young kids now, you have to be about that life.
Its kind of putting rap on the back burner.
Raps taken a backseat to skating.
In a2017 interview with ESPN,he expressed how creatively freeing skateboarding was for him.
It does make sense that Wayne would seek out a creative outlet other than music.
Baby Williams and his brother Robert Slim Williams.
The bitter legal disputes are what allegedly inspired a shooting of Waynes tour bus in 2015.
Having conquered hip-hop, he found a new challenge in skateboarding.
Lil Wayne has always likened himself to a Martian, an otherworldly figure merely observing the rest of us.
