Mid-20s and 30-year-olds can remember when they were kids playing Kanye West and Lil Wayne. What a time in life! Two artists at the peak of their powers, releasing countless classics. They can remember where they were when they bought College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation, and more. They saw Ye grow from an everyman wearing a Polo and a backpack to becoming a megastar in shutter glasses. People would scour the internet for Weezy mixtapes and leaked records. He was inescapable by 2008, when Tha Carter III dropped like a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n
Over the years, those kids who loved \u201cLollipop\u201d and \u201cTouch The Sky\u201d grew up to become adults with jobs. Meanwhile, Kanye West grew in both status and ego. Eventually, that all spiraled out of control as his mental health deteriorated and controversy<\/a> piled on. <\/p>\n On the other end, Wayne\u2019s output slowed drastically. His Cash Money deal bred complications, spawning the Free Weezy movement. And ultimately, the quality of work soured too.<\/p>\n Kanye West and Lil Wayne\u2019s Kids Have a Song, and I\u2019m Feeling the Wrinkles Right Now<\/p>\n Kanye and Wayne are legends at this point in the game, established veterans with timeless songs under their belt. Moreover, they\u2019re also fathers. Naturally, those kids look up to their dads and end up wanting to make music of their own. Now, Gen Z and millennials alike have to feel so old now that their GOATs\u2019 kids are in the studio.<\/p>\n Recently, North West, daughter of Kanye West, produced<\/a> \u201cJustswagup\u201d for rapper Mag!c and Lil Novi, Lil Wayne\u2019s son. The record plays out like a lot of modern rap: an offshoot of Playboi Carti\u2019s cadence, with blown-out bass and colorful synth to match. Predictably, people are looking at their hands and wondering where all the time went. Other people are marveling at the young North West, capturing the essence of newer underground hip-hop.<\/p>\n One person notes how it can\u2019t be that shocking for her to take after her dad, Kanye West, so seamlessly. \u201cnorth west completely turning into an underground rap producer makes total sense and i dnt understand why oldheads are so shocked at that,\u201d they tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n As Kanye\u2019s daughter embarks on her own music career, Ye himself is trying to carve out his way back into people\u2019s good graces. Last week, he showed up at comedian Deon Cole\u2019s show to reveal that a new album is on the way<\/a>. The crowd was incredibly happy and receptive, just as the reception at his guest appearance in Japan<\/a> was in November 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mid-20s and 30-year-olds can remember when they were kids playing Kanye West and Lil Wayne. What a time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,744,85,46,18221,121305,409,45266],"class_list":{"0":"post-219783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-hip-hop","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-kanye-west","13":"tag-lil-wayne","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-noisey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}