Canada has enjoyed something of a creative renaissance in recent years between Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, and countless movies. Most recently Vancouver’s radio interviewer Nardwuar has been leading the cultural charge for our neighbor to the north, having scored a highly captivating series of video interviews with hip-hop’s most vital artists—Odd Future, Drake, Lil’ Wayne, Lil’ B, to name a few, and giving his very own TED Talk earlier this month.
In the new interview with Lil’ Wayne, in addition to asking great questions and getting Weezy to freestyle a shout-out to Drake for setting up the interview, Nardwuar addresses him as “Little Wayne.” He did the same thing in the Lil’ B interview, exclusively as “Little B.” Both rappers were too polite to correct him, but as Chris Matthews once admonished a particularly ornery politician, “you should always call people what they call themselves.”
“Lil,” Nardwuar, “lil.”