Let It All Work Out

The closing track of Tha Carter V, "Let It All Work Out" finds Lil Wayne detailing a preteen suicide attempt. I found my momma's pistol where she always hide it I cried, put it to my head, and thought about it Nobody was home to stop me, so I called my auntie Hung up, then put the gun up to my heart and pondered Too much was on my conscience to be smarter 'bout it Too torn apart about it, I aimed where my heart was pounding I shot it, and I woke up with blood all around me It's mine, I didn't die, but as I was dying God came to my side and we talked about it He sold me another life and he made a profit The 12-year-old Lil Wayne shot himself after his mother told him he couldn't rap anymore.

Wayne has previously played down the drama as an accident. He claimed on the 2015 Free Weezy Album track "London Roads" that the shooting was a mishap, though a year later during his verse on Solange's A Seat at the Table cut "Mad," he alluded to an unspecified suicide attempt.

Mack Maine, president of Young Money Entertainment and Wayne's longtime friend revealed in a 2018 Billboard interview that Weezy added the lyrics to the already existing track in the summer of 2018, following the suicides of designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. "He just told me one day that he was ready to address it now," Maine said. "Just being an adult, reaching a level of maturity and comfort where it's like, 'I want to talk about this because I know a lot of people out here might be going through that.'"