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Lil Baby Explains Why Lil Wayne Is The G.O.A.T. To Him [Video]

Lil Baby Explains Why Lil Wayne Is The GOAT To Him

During a recent episode of “Everyday Struggle”, Lil Baby made an appearance to chat with Nadeska Alexis, Wayno and DJ Akademiks.

Around the 35:00 mark of their interview, Baby was asked what does Lil Wayne mean to him before he explained why Wayne is his personal G.O.A.T. and why he may not be the G.O.A.T. to the younger generation.

You can check out everything what the Atlanta rapper had to say in the video after the jump below! Are you still bumping “Forever“?

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Birdman Speaks On His Relationships With Lil Wayne, Drake & Young Thug + Says He Is Forever In Business With All Of Them [Video]

Birdman Speaks On His Relationships With Lil Wayne, Drake & Young Thug + Says He Is Forever In Business With All Of Them

Birdman recently sat down with Nadeska Alexis, Wayno and DJ Akademiks for an interview on their “Everyday Struggle” show, which you can watch below.

During their conversation, Baby spoke on his “great relationship” with Lil Wayne and Drake, putting the past behind them, how he is “forever in business with them”, and how he stays relevant in different music eras.

The #1 Stunna also explained why he never reacted to Wayne disrespecting him at shows, learning about streaming before it became a thing, his documentary with Spotify called “New Cash Order“, taking Young Thug under his wing, and much more!

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Currensy Says Lil Wayne Will Be A “Monster” Now He Is An Independent Artist [Video]

Currensy Says Lil Wayne Will Be A Monster Now He Is An Independent Artist

Curren$y appeared on one of the latest episodes of Complex’s “Everyday Struggle” series to chop it up with DJ Akademiks and Nadeska.

During their conversation, Spitta revealed that he felt terrible seeing Lil Wayne go through his record label problems and because he is an independent artist himself, he knew how much of a “monster” Wayne could of been these past 4 years.

“From somebody who’s independent… I know how much of a monster he could be if he was doing it himself.”

The former Young Money artist also added that Tunechi has “gave his life” to skateboarding, mentioned Tune stays in the studio until 10:00AM, and answered “that’s all we do” when asked if they will ever work together again. Check out everything he said below!

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Fat Joe Talks Witnessing Lil Wayne Come Up With His Verse On DJ Khaled’s “We Takin’ Over” & Says All New Rappers Owe Wayne A Favor [Video]

Fat Joe Talks Witnessing Lil Wayne Come Up With His Verse On DJ Khaled We Takin Over & Says All New Rappers Owe Wayne A Favor

For episode 253 of Complex’s “Everyday Struggle” series, special guest Fat Joe sat down with DJ Akademiks and Nadeska to speak on various subjects that you can check out below.

At the 46:30 mark of their conversation, Joey Crack discussed Lil Wayne killing him on DJ Khaled’s “We Takin’ Over” single, called Wayne the “best rapper on earth at that time”, and told a story of what Weezy‘s recording process was like for his verse on “We Takin’ Over“, which included him standing in front of some big speakers at The Hit Factory and coming up with “I am the beast, feed me rappers or feed me beats” line.

Joe also mentioned that he owes Tunechi so much for teaching him how to work as rappers in his era don’t work as hard as the new millennium rappers and said that he used to always think he had to keep on working himself as he knew Tune would be somewhere working.

Later on in the interview at the 51:30 mark, Fat Joe shared his thoughts on Lil Wayne‘s current situation with Birdman, as well as pointed out that all these new rappers owe Wayne a favor as they all rap exactly like him, but not as good.

Joey Crack even revealed that he loves Mr. Carter as a person, called him a true friend (which is rare in the music industry), and says Weezy is very intelligent, plus misunderstood as people will look at him and see the dreads and tattoos, but that’s not who he truly is!

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Joe Budden Says The Reason Southern Rappers Are Winning Right Now Is Because Of Cam’ron First Embracing Lil Wayne [Video]

Joe Budden Says The Reason Southern Rappers Are Winning Right Now Is Because Of Camron First Embracing Lil Wayne

In a recent episode of Complex’s “Everyday Struggle” series, Joe Budden explained why he thinks the South is winning in hip-hop right now and it is because of Cam’ron co-signing Lil Wayne.

Joe revealed that no one up North was messing with Southern music until Cam’ron first embraced Tunechi. He then mentioned that this is when Tune started claiming he was the Best Rapper Alive and proved it with his bars.

You can check out exactly what Budden said after the jump below! Do you think the reason for Southern rappers’ success in hip-hop today is all due to Dipset rocking with Weezy?

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