Cari Champion had Lil Wayne as a guest on her podcast Be Honest. During their conversation Cari brought up Jay Z calling Lil Wayne and giving him props and how it was a defining moment in his career. She then compared that to what Lil Wayne did for Drake. Lil Wayne went on to discuss discovering Drake and telling him not to change his style of music. At one point Lil Wayne was in the “best rapper” discussions, now Drake is among those listed. So she asks, who’s the better rapper between the two. Check out what he had to say.
Lil Wayne: I discovered Drake, that’s the difference. At the time he was singing and rapping. His image is the same thing we know now.
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He was getting shunned by a lot of people.
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When I hear it and I think I can do something with it and he find out that , and he hear that, that gave him the confidence out of this world and the motivation to do it the exact way. I was the one to tell him don’t change anything. Don’t think cause you’re coming over here by me that you gotta start rapping about the things I rap about, don’t do none of that. Please rap about your little TV show, whatever you wanna rap about. Rap about girls, do that, that’s what you’re good at.
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Don’t start singing about killing nobody, don’t start singing about the streets. Keep it Canadian. *laughs*
Cari Champion: Who’s the better rapper you or Drake?
Lil Wayne: Man I’ll annihalate that guy. *laughs*
You can listen to the full podcast HERE. This particular conversation begins around the 22 minute mark.
Or this video.
