Lil Wayne can’t remember his own songs anymore due to a heartbreaking condition.
The rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr, is a hugely celebrated star, and is considered to be one of the most influential artists of his generation.
He has won multiple Grammy Awards, as well as VMAs, BET Hip Hop Awards and even a Juno Award.
However, behind the scenes, the forty-one-year-old has been going through some serious health issues.
He revealed to Rolling Stone that he can no longer tell the difference between his albums, including Tha Carter III, Tha Carter II, Tha Carter I, and Tha Carter IV.
“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,” he told the outlet.
His memory loss issues come as a result of his epilepsy, which causes him to have unprovoked seizures.
Despite his records being some of the most influential in the world, Lil Wayne is unable to remember them, and admitted that he can’t even recall the year 2008 when Tha Carter III, one of his most successful albums, came out.
“I don’t even know if that’s when ‘Tha Carter III’ came out. That’s how much I don’t know,” he said.
“And also, I always look at it as the curse part of the gift and the curse. I believe that (God) blessed me with this amazing mind, but would not give (me) an amazing memory to remember this amazing s***.”
The rapper first opened up about his epilepsy back in 2013, when he revealed that he believes he had suffered seizures during his childhood, but failed to be diagnosed due to a “lack of knowledge”.
Despite his health issues, the ‘Lollipop’ rapper does not plan on retiring from music anytime soon.
“Even when you say it, I don’t think you actually mean stop working or doing music. You probably just mean you want to retire from everything else but the music,” he said.
“When you’re an artist — a real artist like myself, I was born this way. So I don’t think that the real true artists and pioneers, they never retire. They died doing this.”
