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So, what artist did you grow up listening to?
I grew up listening to Jadakiss, Jeezy, Gucci [Mane] Lil’ Wayne, Juelz [Santana,] you know, people out the Dipset. I fuck with Reasonable Doubt and Scarface. That’s who I fuck with, people who got lyrics.
When I talked to Drake, he said that he played some of my shit for Jay Z and he was fucking with it. That was the last I heard of it. Drake shouted me out onHot 97 and on Twitter. (Drake Tweeted lyrics from Lil’Herb and Lil’ Bibby ‘s,“Kill Shit”).
"I think Lil Wayne is one of the best rappers in the world and people hate on him, they be like: ‘he wack’… like how? how? In what way is he wack? He might say a line you don’t like or whatever, but come on."
Speaking with HipHopDX about Lil Wayne's impact on mainstream Hip Hop, Crooked I detailed his respect for the Young Money rapper lyricism.
Explaining his take on Wayne’s effect on young Hip Hop listeners throughout his commercial success, Crooked I spoke about Tha Carter emcee’s penchant for “witty” one-liners.
“I think Wayne is one of the artists who really opened that gateway, there was a time where we weren’t getting anything in the mainstream,” Crooked I said in a clip that debuted as a part of the DX Daily today (September 30). “The underground always has flourished. You got so many layers of the game: you got the underground, you got the almost-famous, you got the famous, you got the super famous. So, in the super famous realm I don’t think that those fans were getting any lyricism. I think Wayne, I credit and salute him because when he was hopping on all those joints, he had some memorable one-liners that were witty, catchy, and clever at the same time. It made people start thinking, young people. I remember talking to’em at the barbershop, they’re like, ‘Yo, he is the best rapper alive.’ That was the best that they had heard.”
Influenced By:“Jay Z, Drake, Jadakiss, a little Cam’ron. I like Wayne. Gucci. Those guys. I really like the street rappers, but I fuck with Drake hard too.”
What's the first music you remember hearing as a kid?My sister had me listening to Nas, DMX, Bow Wow, Eminem… that type of shit.
So that's kinda what you came up on? Nah that's what I was forced to listen to. I came up listening to Lil Wayne, Gucci.
Influenced By:My influences are OutKast, Erykah Badu, Gnarls Barkley, ScHoolboy Q and Wayne. Q is a dude I listened to before €I came to TDE. He was the first one I listened to. I heard of Rock first, but Q is the first one, like his wordplay and his stories really made me listen to it.€
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