i've said it before, Lil Baby was born from Wayne's D6 fast flow. Listen to Lil Baby's verse on Wants and Needs, this has D6 Wayne written all over it. + Wayne still uses his D6 flow to this day(example Comme Des Garcon, Darkside, Wild Dogs)
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you do know lil baby was doing his style whilst wayne was recording D6 and wayne even imitated on D6 with the song MY DAWG?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQE456q4n5U
1:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTivsHlVcGU
0:54
style of rap is identical
infact wayne himself has openly admitted to imitating lil baby and wanting to 'remake' and ' mimick' him for NC3 so its clear its also bleeding into his solo music as it was PAINFULLY evident on FUNERAL
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eizDlMTanE4
Come on, that is vaguely similar and not even distinct enough to call it imitation in either direction, you could probably find loads of rappers with similar sounding flows to that, it's just bar after bar in quick succession. Wayne has been doing this sort of thing since NC1.
lets be real fam if wayne is openly stating that his mimicking and imitating lil baby for his mixtapes whos to say it wont bleed int his own music and his own approach to music esp with a modern rapper? to me its super clear that his imitating lil baby on gang gang
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also i just picked a random lil baby song with a fast flow for example sake
Well he has said that he'll take aspects of songs he likes and put them into his music, really he's done that since Missy Elliot and earlier, it's sort of a natural thing to do as an artist. He's obviously a big Lil Baby fan and there are elements of the general modern style in his music a lot more but I think you're massively overstating this imitation thing, especially since he basically created the style anyway.
He is but I also feel he always does this. Uses modern influences on some of his flow. Even dating back to the 2000s.
side note though, the flow switch on stunna man, starting with “I had to spend some money to win some money” is as Wayne as it gets. Nothing better in rap
Lil Wayne is fitting in with this new generation, this is his fourth decade in rap.
If he stayed the same, he would be 50 Cent level :thinking: