Ludacris recently sat down with Vanessa Satten and Shaheem Reid for an interview on XXL’s Hip-Hop Moments Of Clarity podcast, which you can check out below.

Around the 24:30 mark, Luda was asked who his top five rappers with the greatest flows of all time are to which he named: Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, JAY-Z, and Lil Wayne.

The rapper and actor did say that “this is probably, might be one of the greatest questions I’ve ever been asked”. You can watch him list five rappers that he feels have the best flows in the rap game below!

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For #ThrowbackThursday today, I have decided to share scans from Lil Wayne and Birdman‘s cover story for the December 2006 issue of XXL magazine, which took place not long after their Like Father, Like Son collaboration album had been released in stores.

In an interview with Jon Caramanica for the mag, Weezy and Baby discussed everything from how they first met each other, why artists such as Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, B.G. and Turk all left Cash Money Records, and how they really felt about that.

You put out the “I Miss My Dawgs” song, and you said it came from a sincere place. The other [Hot Boys] guys said it was some sport of publicity stunt. How did that make you feel?
Fuck them niggas. They should be happy a nigga was still seeing them at that time. I don’t see them no more. Literally. They dead to me, man.

You can check out scans from Wayne and Baby‘s cover story below, courtesy of RSA, that also includes the two of them chatting about their family-like relationship, the early Cash Money days, relocating to Miami from New Orleans, and much more!

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YFN Lucci recently sat down with XXL at their office to revisit some of his old tweets and one of these included:

“GOT ONE WITH THE GREATEST RAPPER ALIVE OOOHHHHHHHH WE GOT THE KEYS.”

This tweet is from 3 years ago when Lucci was sent and first heard Lil Wayne‘s verse on his “Key To The Streets” remix.

You can watch YFN, who he and Wayne‘s daughter Reginae Carter recently split up, explain how he got a Wayne verse in the clip below at the 2:00 mark!

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At the end of May, DaBaby sat down with XXL for an interview on their “Who Am I?” video series, which you can watch below.

Throughout their conversation, the Cleveland rapper revealed he listened to Lil Wayne‘s music while growing up, as well as that he wants to do a song with Weezy.

Would you like to see a collaboration from DaBaby and Tunechi in the future?!

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Kid Buu sat down with XXL a couple of months ago to explain why he deserves to be a 2019 Freshman.

During his pitch, which you can watch below, Buu explained that he is known for being a clone, but he is actually just a clone of Lil Wayne.

He then proceeds to say that he thinks everyone is a clone of Tunechi from their image to the way they talk/rap and everyone who appears on this XXL Freshman series should be paying homage plus respect to Tune.

The Jersey artist also pointed out that anyone who says they aren’t influenced by Lil Wayne are still technically influenced by him, because the rapper who does inspire them was more than likely influenced by Wayne. He even mentioned that Weezy is the Jesus Christ of hip-hop culture and the question is not “what would Jesus do?”, but more like “what would Wayne do?”!

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For the anniversaries of “Bling Bling” and Tha Block Is Hot, which both turn 20-years-old this year, Mannie Fresh chopped it up with XXL for an interview.

While discussing the classic single and classic album, Mannie revealed what advice he gave to Lil Wayne, explained the Fresh Files project will be full of songs which didn’t make Tha Carter V, and disclosed what we can expect from that project, and more.

“Shit, I got about two albums worth of songs on Wayne.”

You can check out everything that Fresh said after the jump below! Are you looking forward to hearing his and Wayne‘s upcoming album?

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