How come hiphop doesn look at Wayne as a godfather like it does HOV and NAS

[Standing on business]

Wayne is 33 years old and house been mainstream since the 90's

At 33 HOV had dropped the black album and was looked at as elite amongst his peers and already was a legend.

At 33 nas dropped hiphop was dead, he was also hiphop royalty and a legend amongst his peers.


Wayne has had just as much commercial success for about the same amount of time as them, so how come he doesn't he doesn't have that elite, legend, hiphop royalty aura around him like nas and HOV?

 

[10:31]

Wayne gets his just due among his peers and the young generation


The younger generation don't fukk with Hov and Nas like we did.

Wayne is their Pac. Ask Kendrick? Ask Young Thug?

 

[Pier7]

The new generation gives Wayne his props. Prolly the most out of all the older statesmen.

Only reason why the 30 and up crowd give Wayne a hard time is cause he is from the south, and his style of rap was very unorthodox at the time.

I say it all the time, if Wayne was from Brooklyn or something, just off his career alone, you motherfukkas would have him over BIGGIE n all these other East Coast legends like Slick Rick, Krs, etc.

 

[GPBear]

If hip hop treated Wayne like you treat Nas, it'd be making stupid bytch ass threads calling him fat



fukkin make me sick, goddamn Hov stan

 

[born2bewired]

lil wayne's subject matter is weak. he was that dude for a minute but he didn't continuing evolving.
nas and jay also started trying to come across more grown by 33. lil wayne is skating and dressing like an a$$hole.

 

[Raheem95]

Wayne is one of the GOAT

 

[MexicanKingpin]

Because he's not from NY east coast fakkits
Like to give more props and respect if your from NY.

 

[onlylno]

Nas, Big, Pac, Jay-Z



That's a whole different era of rap.

If we had to add a modern rappers for this era, It would be Kanye, Wayne, and Gucci (in that order).

Tho IMO Gucci has been way more influential than Wayne.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

Music wasn't that good, and his best music was mixtape freestyles

 

[Big Mel]

Because he's a fidget child rapper.

 

[Rev]

Serious?

 

[Fani Willis fan]

He doesnt move like a elder statesman.. hes like a manchild, and his business is not in order. He comes across as washed up

Hes been getting props ever since the CM fall out tho

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

Because he's not from NY east coast fakkits
Like to give more props and respect if your from NY.

So.....vulgar


But some truth to this....

Lil Wayne for the kids born in the mid 90s was 10x bigger than Nas...

 

[Canada Goose]

Jay and Nas don't drop mixtapes, also both of them have undeniable classics... Wayne doesn't have that Ilmatic or Blueprint in his catalog.

 

[head shots101]

Stop it my g