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Lil Wayne thinks he should have been named as the greatest rapper of all time

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Published 18:49 24 Feb 2023 GMT

Lil Wayne thinks he should have been named as the greatest rapper of all time

The rapper insisted he is 'motherf***ing one'

Jake Massey

Jake Massey

Billboard published its 50 greatest rappers of all time earlier this month - but Lil Wayne reckons the ranking ain't right.

The rapper was rated as the seventh best ever, which is pretty damn good going.

However, Wayne - real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. - thinks he should have been top of the pile.

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The 40-year-old discussed the list in an interview on Zane Lowe's Apple Music radio show.

Lil Wayne reckons there are none better.
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"Man, who the hell is before me? Was the list including all hip-hop, like before and after as well?" Wayne asked.

Jay-Z was named as number one, followed by Kendrick Lamar, Nas, 2Pac, Eminem, and The Notorious B.I.G.

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"I will tell you that I am a motherf***ing one," said Wayne. "Everybody whose names you named, they also know I'm number one. Go ask 'em. They know what it is."

"The last tour I got off was with Blink-182," he added.

"At the end of the day, I find myself at the country music awards and doing tours with Blink-182. There's not a lot of rappers in this position who can say they've done that. I stand alone on that mountain."

He thinks the other rappers on the list would admit he's the best.
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Ice Cube - who was ranked 18th - also hit out at the list.

"I don't f**k with Billboard or the editor," Cube told TMZ. "Billboard ain't hip-hop so their opinion don't matter. So who gives a f**k?

"It's an irrelevant list. It's like a**holes: everybody got one and they all stink."

In his Apple Music interview, Wayne also explained how he keeps in shape, and for him, it's all about diet.

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In fact, he can't even remember the last time he had fast food - which is probably quite avoidable when you've had a personal chef for more than two decades.

"When I was 19, I moved to Miami and my mom is a chef and she was very happy for the move because New Orleans is crazy. "One thing she really wanted me to do was get a personal chef," he said.

"So, from the age of 19 to now, I've always had a personal chef. I don't know what McDonald's smell like. I haven't eaten any fast food in forever.

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"People always say to me, 'What's your workout? What do you do when you get in the gym?' I be like, 'Only gyms I know is Jim Jones.'

"I can't lift a weight, bro. I don't do no workout or nothing like that."

Featured Image Credit: UPI / Alamy Stock Photo/ZUMA Press, Inc. / Alamy Stock Photo

Topics: Music, Rap, Lil Wayne

Jake Massey
Jake Massey

Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person.

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