By now we’ve all seen the Lil Wayne & Katie Couric Grammy interview in full. If not, here you go.

And upon having my ass handed to me by blackplanet members and their passionate LOVE/HATE comments, (Exhibit A—and this was one of the nicer ones):

I have this to say: Now that I’ve seen the whole segment, I stand by my earlier statement that the sneak peek was CRAZYTOWN. It was edited crazy, Wayne came off crazy mood swingy and Katie Couric seemed to get quieter and talk slower to the point where I thought she was having a stroke. I realized in HORROR once I watched everything that she was flirting with him [barf]. That is when she wasn’t (admittedly and quite clearly) being deathly afraid of him.

My point is this: If you put Wayne on TV, give him Katie’s “special” lighting and make him talk about something he loves, like, New Orleans, his body language relaxes and he seems sincere and incredibly likable. If you make him talk about his father Dwayne senior, he tries SO hard to stay relaxed and “whatever,” that the obvious murder in his eyes makes his sparkly be-pierced smile look scary as all hell.

OK, that actually wasn’t even my point. My new point is that Weezy, whether you like him or not, comes off super kooky on-camera. He does. ADMIT IT. But far behind the scenes and on paper, Mr. F. Baby is kinda awesome. Here’s why.

The Smoking Gun recently put up Lil Wayne’s Tour Rider. Despite this being the exact sort of juicy document that typically makes you roll your eyes and mock the particulars of the insanely famous (remember RiRi’s “***ON OCCASION WE MAY ASK FOR HARD BOILED EGGS, TURKEY BACON, TURKEY SAUSAGE AT ANY TIME THROUGHOUT THE DAY. PLEASE BE PREPARED!”), the thing that most stuck out to me on Wayne’s other than the um Lear Jet and (2 bottles of Hennessey XO. XO only!!!) is the following:

“EJECTIONS: If you need to eject a patron from the venue, we must insist that you DO NOT escort the ejected patron by the stage. Please escort away from the stage, out of artist view.”

AND

“AUDIENCE: Please use the “diplomatic” approach. BE POLITE! No strong-arming.”

OK, so haters might be like, that’s ’cause Wayne’s scared and blablablbablbalblabla but I’d prefer to think it’s because he loves his fans. I really think it upsets him to people being ejected especially when in the zone of performing. Plus I like that he took the time to mention these things separately when the “food and bullshit” part of his rider was so short.

This (Rihanna’s):

VS

This (Wayne’s):

Whoa. And I just learned Chaka Khan was lactose intolerant. And perhaps slightly backed up.

That made me feel shame. I need to stop looking at these.