(Room attendant’s saying “Housekeeping.”) I don’t even know where we slept last night, I just literally woke up in a Motel 6. With your music you have discussed the artists that have inspired you creatively, but who were the people on a personal level that inspired Lil Wyte? Who were the most important people to you then that helped you to find your direction? Growing up in Memphis was very, very different. I always hung out with older people too, very different from me. I actually got down with a cool group of people when I was young. If you hung around with some bullshit people there is high, high chances of being fucked with and you know, bullshit happening. If you grew up in Memphis, Tennessee in the 90’s and you hung around good people then you were actually alright. They basically taught me the ropes, what to do and what not to do, you know. They practically raised me the same as my parents. I lucked out man I just had a lot of good friends, I learned from a lot of cool mothafucka’s that I grew up around. If you was a weak ass mothafucka it was pretty hard. Growing up in Memphis, it actually wasn’t hard if you was cool.
Share with us your experiences growing up in Memphis. So let’s give your fans a look into the real life of, Lil Wyte. You have done things in this game that other artists have not done and may never do. In many ways you are a legend in hip hop whether everyone agrees with that or not.
Well, Wyte this interview is about showcasing your life. Jellyroll who was featured once with us before and who is following up this interview with his own next, gave us some very important advice when it came to the insight into the life of Wyte.ĭude we were kickin it with like 50 lesbian’s last night. The fucked up part about that answer is that it’s kind of what I expected you to say. I literally just woke up and my road manager said I had an interview in 5 minutes. Alongside the Jelly Roll-accompanied sequel, No Filalso brought his sixth holiday mixtape, Wyte Christmas 6, with DJ Ritz.I am fuckin hung over as shit dude. Throughout this period, the prolific Wyte maintained a steady stream of mixtapes, often releasing several per year. (Bay Area Representatives), he returned to solo work with No Sick Days, his sixth solo LP. After a pair of collaborations, first with Jelly Roll on 2013's No Filter then with Frayser Boy on 2014's B.A.R. A welcome return, the album was well-received by critics and was accompanied by Wyte Out, one of many mixtapes delivered during this era.
It was followed a year later by Still Doubted?, Wyte's first post-Warner solo effort. Year Round, a 2011 collaboration with Jelly Roll and BPZ recorded under the name SNO, became the inaugural release on his own Wyte Records, which appeared in conjunction with Hypnotize Minds.
Two years later, Wyte's DJ Paul and Juicy J-produced fourth LP, The Bad Influence, made a decent showing on the charts, but would be list last for Asylum. His Warner follow-up, 2007's The One and Only reached a very respectable #46 on the Billboard Top 200 and became his most successful release to date. The trio's work made Wyte's 2004 release, Phinally Phamous, one of the most "real" and "street" releases to appear on a major label under the crunk banner. He signed, and brought Juicy J and DJ Paul along with him. label took notice and approached the rapper about becoming a flagship artist for the relaunch of Warner's Asylum imprint. Wyte's "Smoking Song" started to appear on numerous street-level mixtapes and Internet message boards were filled with Wyte talk. Doubt Me Now appeared in 2003 and became a word-of-mouth hit among crunk and Southern rap's hardcore fans. Three 6 Mafia members Juicy J and DJ Paul signed the under-21 rapper immediately after the group's disbanding and soon were working on his debut. The group fell apart but the Memphis-based Wyte was too skilled to be stopped. When the quick-rapping, crunk to the core Lil Wyte first came to the attention of Three 6 Mafia it was with an all-white group of which Wyte was a member.