It’s pretty damn hard to imagine the perma-stoned rapper Lil’ Wayne getting all buddy-buddy with the monolithic, inanely-PC entity that is ESPN, but that’s what’s happening. He gave a pretty engaging interview on ESPN.com a while back, revealing his love for athletics (particularly the Packers and Red Sox), his fantasy football team name (the South Beach Sloths), as well as this gem about stadia playing his songs:

ESPN: When you’re writing, do you think about what the songs will sound like at a sporting event?
Wayne: Put it this way, I don’t write anything that I don’t expect to hear in a stadium, so yeah.

The first post in a series of blogs is up on ESPN.com, and it’s about as wide-ranging as you’d expect: lots of NFL (I want to see Wayne’s dreads cascading out the back of a cheesehead), fantasy football, memories of playing fullback at age 10 (probably wasn’t much shorter than he is now), and he cares about Rafael Nadal more than about 93% of America.

HT: Pitchfork

Links:
Lil’ Wayne ESPN interview (mostly baseball)
Lil’ Wayne’s ESPN blog (mostly football)

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