“When the greatest rapper of all time believed & still believes in you,” Nicki praises Wayne.
Lil Wayne declares Nicki Minaj Greatest Female Rapper of All-Time, Minaj praises Weezy black
Nicki Minaj has penned a heartfelt message to Lil Wayne after Weezy crowned her “the greatest female rapper ever”
The Young Money founder recently made an appearance on Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s “All The Smoke” podcast, where he opened up about sports, his iconic career, and much more. At one point, the New Orleans legend was asked about Young Money Queen, Nicki Minaj, who has become a historic rapper in her own right. As far as her ranking as a woman within hip hop, Weezy was pretty clear about his artist.
“Ain’t nobody fucking with Nicki,” he declared with little hesitation. “They come after.”
Minaj reacted to Weezy’s by posting clips from the interview to her Instagram, while returning the compliment by calling Wayne the greatest rapper of all time.
“I’ll give u a dollar if you can find a lie,” Nicki wrote. “When the greatest rapper of all time believed & still believes in you. I sure did lean on your confidence & u sure were ALWAYS there.
“Til this day- when I send you smthng you send a verse bakk. @liltunechi we love you so much. We thank you so much. Long live the BAR! Bar for Bar. No pun intended #MulaBaaabay!!! @mackmaine4president.”
Elsewhere in his All the Smoke interview, Lil Wayne talked about discovering Nicki Minaj and the requirements he had to sign someone to Young Money.
“We were looking for artists at the time and we set out to look for artists I wanted to meet,” he said. “I wanted a New York female artist.
“I always tell ’em, I wanted to make sure she had two things, she was missing, lacking two things: do not sound like Foxy [Brown], do not sound like [Lil’] Kim, you know what I mean?
Weezy continued: “And when I heard, Nicki was sounding like me. She was changing her voice up, I was like, ‘Okay.’ Like, I ain’t never seen this. This rare. New York female artists, I had to keep telling ’em, ‘Yo, don’t do that, don’t say that.’
Nah? Alright, cool. And you ready to talk this weird shit, this crazy shit like me too? Let’s go. You perfect.”
The Young Money head honcho also reflected on signing Drake and Nicki Minaj to Young Money in the late ’00s and watching them grow into global superstars
Watch Lil Wayne’s full interview on ’All the Smoke‘ in the video below.
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