Check yourself before you replicate yourself
Lil Wayne and Eminem. CREDIT: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Eminem and Lil Wayne have both claimed that they have to google their own songs prior to writing new material, in order to avoid repeating lyrics.
The pair were speaking during the most recent episode of Wayne’s Beats 1 Radio show, Young Money Radio, when Eminem mentioned the difficulties of a long rap career, saying artists like himself “start getting to the point where you rapped about everything, you rhymed every word there is to rhyme”.
Wayne then confessed that he often has to double-check his own back catalogue: “I literally have to Google my lyrics to make sure I didn’t say certain stuff.”
“Oh my God,” Eminem responded, “I swear to god, I do that too!” Wayne said that it was a marker of how long the pair had been working in the industry, adding: “Soon as you go to my Safari, it’s gonna be ‘Lil Wayne lyrics.’”
Source: https://www.nme.com/news/music/eminem-lil-wayne-admit-googling-own-lyrics-to-avoid-repetition-2666948