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Missy Elliott, Goodie Mob, UGK Make Lil Wayne's Top 5 Rapper List

Missy Elliott, Goodie Mob, UGK Make Lil Wayne's Top 5 Rapper List

Published Wed, August 2, 2023 at 4:35 PM EDT

Billboard recently asked Lil Wayne to rank his top 5 favorite rappers ever, and his list is respectably diverse, though he insists his list is in "no specific order."

Missy Elliott, UGK, Goodie Mob, The Notorious B.I.G., and Jay-Z round out his top 5. Although Wayne said this list wasn't in order, in an interview last year during Fox Sports’ What’s Wright? With Nick Wright podcast, he did say Missy was “always going to be first."

“She’s a huge influence of everything I’ve ever done.” Missy retweeted the clip and relayed her gratitude by writing, “Whenever @LilTunechi says my name in his interviews twitter don’t have enough space for my tosay my GRATEFULNESS because he is a LEGEND himself who birthed many emcees after him & as a man to acknowledge me as a big influence 4 him I send you love WAYNE.”

As for Jay's spot on Wayne's list, he talked about how much he influenced his style. “Like Biggie, love Biggie, love Jadakiss, I love all that sh–. But Jay…. the moment I heard it, I stopped. You could ask my boy. ‘I heard that n—a Jay-Z don’t write no more,'” he said during the Pivot podcast last month. “We went in the studio, and we did ‘10,000 Bars.’ And that was the last time I rapped anything off of a paper.”

With Goodie Mob, Wayne said they changed his life. “My homeboy CT — we call him Thugger, Camouflage Thugger, he’s one of Mack good, good homeboys — he put me onto [Goodie Mob] back in the day, in the seventh grade,” Wayne said in a 2016 interview with Genius. “He had me listening to that s–t every day. It changed my life. I started rapping about different things, and found out that it was OK to rap positive, actuall,y and to make it sound right. If you spittin’… not that it doesn’t matter what you’re spittin’ about, but if you spittin’, you got their ears. So you might as well make the most of it and take advantage of that fact. That’s what CeeLo and the whole Goodie Mob used to do.”

Check out Wayne's full list here.

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