they always got this dumb look on their face like really???
yes really. tired of the blatant wayne disrespect

You know how white people are

#powder

People be wanting everyone to have the same generic top 10 lists.

cos media people only heard some features. other than that their opinion of wayne comes from 2pac/mcdonalds memes

i just seen it happen in the T.I. breakfast club interview.
f***ing annoying

Even krs one agrees with this and he probably got melle mel as #1

Well there was entire era when he was kind of a meme.

Im just glad im not dumb or white enough to think Little Wayne is a top 10 mc of all time. So glad.

Eminem even said that Wayne would've bodied him if they battled in Wayne's prime.

That's probably the highest level of praise you can get among superstar mainstream rappers lol

In terms of pure emceeing (Rhyming, Flows, Cadences, etc.) Wayne is easily top 20 at absolute worst. I'm not even a huge Wayne fan but dude is talented af.

The only knock on Wayne is that his album discog isn't very strong and he doesn't have as much content depth as some of the other GOATs imo.

Wayne had 3 classic albums and like 4563145 classic mixtapes

Mixtapes are a grey area for me.

It seems like people pick and choose when to view mixtapes on the same level as albums. For example, people will give Gucci credit for putting out countless tapes, but someone like a 50 Cent, Lloyd Banks, Lupe, Fabolous, Currensy, etc. have very strong mixtape catalogs that never get taken into GOAT consideration imo.

If we are viewing tapes as just as important as albums, then Wayne's discog obviously gets a huge boost, but if we take the Album >>> Tape approach, then I think there are rappers that are more consistent artistically.

But in terms of talent and impact alone, I'd still have Wayne as top 5-10 even with not knowing how to weigh tapes with albums.

This may burst y'all bubble but you gotta understand that Wayne being a GOAT is something only hip-hop fans and the hip-hop community at large knows

The average joe who is completely removed from understanding the culture only views wayne for surface level s***: weird alien voice, pop-rap songs, drinks lean, and has a lack of substance in his lyrics.

It sucks but yeah

im referring to hip hop media

They have the job but do they really UNDERSTAND the culture?

Think about some of the weird stupid s*** Pete Rosenberg has said and how big of a platform he has

and id really hate to burst your bubble, but hell nah!!
wayne was considered a cool t.i. like above average southern rapper back in the days, then carter 3 happend and all the casuals ran with the whole BEST RAPPER ALIVE shtick seriously. like, uh, where were yall at the past 10 years when real best rapper alive s*** was going down?

Was that from the average joes who know nothing about the culture tho? No

90% of the general audience outside of the culture have the same cringey views on wayne as the em stan memes from 2010-11

Even to this day. Or he's just the guy who drinks lean and has seizures.

and new york especially doesnt respect Lil Wayne.
they have the biggest media platforms in hip hop

Exactly

id say YES.
Real MC'n was going down in the early 2000s and i guess wayne (and gillie the kid) wrote a few hot bars and blam, calls himself the best mc alive and noone was taking it serious till maybe 2006 when he dropped the "Show Me What You got''freestyle.
that s*** was hot no lie, but damn me if u think that is the epitome of MC''n
again, im not even trying to hate i bumped carter 2 last night.

Its not just his catalog

Its his influence and style that still to this day is noticeable among new artists

The leaned out xanny autotune dreads aesthetic is still a popular style that Wayne had in 2007

His best work came from leaks in 07-08 that many young rap listeners never got a chance to experience

Greatest rapper ever

wym by “media people”. i think many music writers would actually put wayne in their top 10

Weezy top 3 atleast