{"id":806815,"date":"2020-04-27T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=989850"},"modified":"2020-04-27T08:00:55","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T14:00:55","slug":"lil-wayne-shows-off-skateboarding-chops-in-new-video-for-piano-trap-not-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/lil-wayne-shows-off-skateboarding-chops-in-new-video-for-piano-trap-not-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne Shows Off Skateboarding Chops in New Video for \u2018Piano Trap,\u2019 \u2018Not Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/lil-wayne-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/lil-wayne\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lil-wayne\" data-tag=\"lil-wayne\">Lil Wayne<\/a> shares his skateboarding highlight reel in a new video for two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/lil-wayne-funeral-946939\/\"><i>Funeral <\/i><\/a>tracks, \u201cPiano Trap\u201d and \u201cNot Me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Directed by Ricky x Willis, the video opens with Wayne strolling by a warning sign that forbids biking and skateboarding; he sparks a blunt and flashes a cheeky look at the camera. The rest of the clip focuses primarily on Wayne\u2019s skating, the only real break coming in between the two songs when the video flashes a fake COVID-19 PSA with the warning, \u201cAuthorities are urging everyone to stay inside\u2026 and thrash!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In an e-mail to&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, Wayne said he chose to highlight his skating in the \u201cPiano Trap\u201d and \u201cNot Me\u201d video after one of his friends and skate buddies, Yosef \u201cYoyo\u201d Rateliff, sent him a skate video with \u201cPiano Trap\u201d playing in the background. \u201cIt was money from there!\u201d Wayne said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Of all the tricks in the video, Wayne said, \u201cI was happiest with the banger at the end!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>In Barcelona, the 180 to fake shuv! It was like 5 a.m. and those homies who was lit at the end were unknown to me! They were just out there kickin it! And they literally didn\u2019t bother me until I landed that shit! And it took me about an hour or two.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve found skateboarding to be a release from life and all this shit in general!\u201d Wayne added. \u201cThat\u2019s why I can\u2019t stop won\u2019t stop!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The \u201cPiano Trap\u201d\/\u201dNot Me\u201d clip follows the Friday premiere of Lil Wayne\u2019s <em>Young Money Radio<\/em> show on Apple Music\u2019s Beats 1 radio. The broadcast featured guests like Travis Scott, Babyface, Jessie Reyez, New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and more. During the show, Wayne played two previously unreleased tracks from the upcoming deluxe edition of <i>Funeral<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lil Wayne released <i>Funeral<\/i> back in January. The LP marked his 13th studio album and followed 2018\u2019s <i>Tha Carter V<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lil-wayne-new-video-skateboarding-piano-trap-not-me-989850\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Wayne shares his skateboarding highlight reel in a new video for two Funeral tracks, \u201cPiano Trap\u201d and \u201cNot Me.\u201d Directed by Ricky x Willis, the video opens with Wayne strolling by a warning sign that forbids biking and skateboarding; he sparks a blunt and flashes a cheeky look at the camera. The rest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 23:18:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}