Lil Wayne is the official model in the campaign for the new Bape x UGG collaboration.

“It’s an honor ’cause Bape is one of the clothing lines that I still remember saving my money to buy,” he says. “I still remember making sure nobody else I seen in my city got my hoodie. Now, they got me involved with it?”

According to Complex, Wayne was Bape and UGG’s first choice to front the ads. In his interview, Wayne shared that he first got hip to Bape because of Pharrell Williams.

“Currensy was into Bape. He rocked it for real,” says Wayne. “But as far as what got me into it, I think just seeing it on Pharrell and being like, ‘What is that colorful camouflage? I need that.’”

Check out the full interview and more photos from the new collaboration here.