Rapper Lil Wayne has plans for retire five years from now, when he's 35.
Wayne sat down with Katie Couric on her talk show "Katie" this week and opened up about his career and his plans for retirement. The rapper also talked about his time in jail, his family and his battles with addiction.
"Oh, I know I'll be able to retire at 35 because I am so ready to retire now," said the hip-hop artist. In the past year, Wayne was hospitalized numerous times for seizure-related illness.
This is not first time the rapper hinted at early retirement. In 2011, the Wayne said his hard work in the music industry has made retirement imminent.
"This is what happened when you work very very hard," Wayne said during an interview with HOT 97 radio station. "People think that when you say you work hard, they think you put two extra hours in. This is my life. That's why retiring at 35 would be a life lived, because this music thing is my life. So retiring at 35 would be enough."
Wayne said his retirement would come after the release of his forthcoming album "Tha Carter V". The has been no information on when the project will be released.
The 30-year-old said the retired life would allow him to spend more time with his four children, whom he called "awesome" and described as his "everything."
"Whatever they want to be, whatever they want to do," Wayne said. "I don't want to have no influence on, 'Hey you must do this, hey you must do that,' because I didn't have that. Because I didn't have that. I grew up to be exactly what I wanted to be and how I wanted to be. I want that for all of my kids."
Wayne's most recent album, "I Am Not a Human Being II," was released last March. The album hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and was certified gold.
