Russ recently chopped it up with DJ Suss One for a virtual interview on Dash Radio’s “Wake Up With DJ Suss One” show.

At the 6:45 mark of their conversation, Russ revealed he “grew up on ’07 Lil Wayne” before later on mentioning “Wayne is up there for sure” when asked who his GOATs are at 9:25.

After saying he originally got interested in rap from Eminem and 50 Cent, the Atlanta resident rapper goes on to say he then got into Weezy‘s music and remembers being in high school when “A Milli” first dropped. You can check out the full convo below!

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Polo G recently participated in a virtual interview with John Ochoa from The Recording Academy aka The GRAMMYs, which you can watch below.

While discussing his latest album, THE GOAT, Polo was asked who he thinks is the greatest of all time in hip-hop to which he named both Tupac Shakur and Lil Wayne:

“To me, arguably Tupac. That’s considering that he was before his time and he is the inspiration to a lot of great minds today. And then I could say another person like Lil Wayne just because of the long run that he had and being the best of the best for a long time, and just the influence that he had on a lot of great minds today. So those my two GOATs.”

The Chicago native also mentioned in their conversation that he grew up listening to Wayne‘s music! Would you like to see a collaboration between Polo G and Weezy?

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NLE Choppa recently chopped it up with Billboard to talk about his brand new single titled “Blocc Is Hot“.

During their conversation, Choppa revealed his new song was inspired by Lil Wayne‘s debut album Tha Block Is Hot, he is a big fan of Wayne, and he grew up listening to him.

The Memphis rapper also mentioned that he wants to get Tunechi on the remix of his latest track! You can read exactly what he said below, as well as listen to “Blocc Is Hot“. Could you see Tune on the record?

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Saweetie recently sat down with Nick Huff Barili from Hard Knock TV for a one on one interview at Truth Studios, which you can check out after the jump below!

During the start of their conversation, Saweetie spoke about collaborating with Lil Wayne on Kid Ink’s “YUSO” single by saying working with someone “so iconic” meant everything to her.

The female rapper/songwriter also revealed that she grew up listening to all of Wayne‘s mixtapes, as well as how sweet, genuine and nice Mr. Carter was when they first met on set of the “YUSO” video shoot!

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Taylor Bennett recently sat down with Ebro Darden, Peter Rosenberg and Laura Stylez for an interview with Hot 97 on their “Ebro In The Morning” radio show, which you can watch below.

At the start of their conversation, Peter revealed Chance The Rapper had told him during their interview in June that Taylor had spent around 12 hours hanging around with Lil Wayne, because everyone thought he was Chance – as they are brothers.

The Chicago rapper then went on to explain this story more by saying he first met Wayne before Chance did at SXSW and he managed to get backstage at Weezy‘s set from everyone thinking he was Chance, but he then told Tunechi he was Chance‘s brother and so Tune let him hit his blunt.

Before Rosenberg cut Taylor Bennett off as he was discussing Lil Wayne, he did manage to say that Wayne is the most hard-working artist of all time, as well as that him and Chance both love Mr. Carter and grew up listening to his music while naming songs like “Let The Beat Build“, “1 Night Only“, and even the unofficial The Drought Is Over 4 mixtape!

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