Although he says friend Bun B has not reached out to him about cutting drinking syrup out of his life, Lil' Wayne told MTV News practically everyone else has.

"No, he (Bun) hasn't talked to me," said Wayne. "But I'm going through that same sh-- with my friends, with my mom. Everybody wants me to stop all this and all that. It ain't that easy."

'Sipping Syrup' is a mixture of mostly promethazine and codeine, ordinarily prescribed by doctors for pneumonia and extreme colds.

"Do your history, do your research," Wayne continued. "It ain't that easy — feels like death in your stomach when you stop doing that sh--. You gotta learn how to stop, you gotta go through detox. You gotta do all kinds of stuff. Like I said, I'm a selfish-ass n---a. I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping. It's hard to sit and tell a n---a 'Stop.' 'F---, how can we tell this n---a to stop when every f---ing thing he do is successful? This n---a is making progress. He just went and talked to kids and that sh-- was amazing.' Feel me? So what am I doing wrong?"


"Let me do me," Wayne continued venting. "Everybody's got their thing, Why focus on me? Don't compare me to no one. Don't compare me to no one who has passed, and why they passed. I can walk out this b---h right now and get hit by a bus. Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world — that's how I feel."

Wayne continued on to discuss that aside from music, he has very little way of escaping the pressures of his career, especially after the heat has been turned up following his arrest last month in Arizona on drug and weapons charges.

"I don't escape. I don't. I'm too shelled-in by it. It's in my own circle. Everybody around here be looking down. I deal with it. ... I never been one to run. I stand there and take it and throw it right back at them b---hes. That's' always been my game."