Lil Baby is feeling good about himself, and it’s hard to blame him between his recent Grammy nominations and success across the Billboard charts. The Quality Control rapper carries that energy into his latest verse for EST Gee’s “5500 Degrees,” released on Wednesday (July 21), in which he confidently calls himself the Lil Wayne of this current rap generation.
“I’m going too crazy, I’m the Wayne of this new generation,” he raps. “N-ggas fugazi, they can’t fuck with us no type of ways, these n-ggas too lazy/I’m cut from a different type of cloth, I don’t know who raised ’em/Every time I pop out all the women screaming, ‘Woo, baby.'”
As well as Lil Baby’s appearance, 42 Dugg and Rylo Rodriguez also come through with verses on the track.
During a conversation with Rolling Stone in November 2020, Lil Baby talked about Lil Wayne’s influence on him as a rapper.
“I always feel like Wayne did what he wanted to do, in a sense,” he said. “And the reason I feel like he could do whatever he wanted to do was because he put the numbers up behind him. So that’s the way I’m kind of rocking. I’m gonna rock out how I wanna rock out, as long as I put the numbers up.”
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Lil Wayne explained how the admiration goes both ways after previously calling Lil Baby his favorite artist.
“I started listening to the lyrics, I started listening to what the homie was saying, and when you’re speaking about something so real like that and figuring out how to make that shit actually go together and sound the way he make it sound – make it rhyme, even when it doesn’t rhyme, even when it doesn’t have to rhyme – that’s when you’re discovering something within yourself,” he said.
“5500 Degrees” appears on EST Gee’s Bigger Than Life or Death album, which arrived on Wednesday (July 21) through Yo Gotti’s CMG and Interscope Records with other features from Future, Young Thug, Lil Durk, Pooh Shiesty and Gotti himself — listen to “5500 Degrees” above and stream the project below.
Wayne actually had wordplay and bars. This baby has none of that. He a show off nothing else
Wayne is trash
Wayne is a emcee. Wayne can take over a track and stand out. Lil’ Buddy doesn’t even stand out on solo tracks. But he sells so there’s that…
Lol “wayne is an emcee”. Now that’s funny
LMMFAO this is comedy
Who is this little shit head??
He ain’t even on the same planet as Wayne when it comes to rap.
Wezzy 20 years or more in , this guys just arrived let’s see where he at in 5 years
Damn weezy has been releasing bad music for that long? Now that’s dedication lol
Umm no. Just cause you successful and one of the guys at the top doesn’t make you Lil Wayne. Wayne is special. Bars, multiple styles, image. Lil Baby might be the new Future considering everything is autotuned. Gonna have that asterix by your name when you use steroids (autotune).
Wayne is garbage lol dont know what you talking. He inspired garbage by being garbage
Wayne is definitely special. Lol you got that part right
Wayne rapped better at 14 than this clown. Y’all need to stop trying to be someone else, that’s the problem with these new rappers. DaBaby is way better and came out first.
These new rappers really don’t understand how big Wayne, Em, 50 etc where in their primes. Nothing new has crossed over like that, none of this new cats have that type of mass appeal
Except Wayne had like a thousand dope flows and the craziest word play ever. You have a repetitive flow and boring lyrics lol
“thousand dope flows” hahah “craziest wordplay ever” another dumdum commenting. weeeezy phone home lol the same man who rapped “don’t fuck up with wayne/ ’cause when it waynes it pours.”
Obviously you’re a moron if you don’t think 07 Wayne had flow for daaaaayyyyyyyys. And yeah your favorite rapper will never even come semi-close to “blunt longer than a tongue twister” and that’s not even close to Wayne’s best so fuuuuuuuck off
07 when bin b was writing his stuff? lmao rap died around 2000 krit nip carried the torch, i never even heard a lil baby song haha its for white “rebellious” teens nows that wanna get back at daddy once they go to college or get engaged to their kin they grow out of it and discover the pre 2000 musicians
“Weezy F Baby and the F is for phenomenal” – Weezy Jefferson
Both are garbage lol
Wayne garbage?? U ever heard a Hotboys album? Fk outta here, Wayne is one of the best to ever do it lil dumb boy.
NO.
Both used autotune.. That’s about it. Wayne punchlines are far superior to lil baby.
Except you’ll never be 10% as popular as him, ever. And you’re nowhere near his skill level…. I mean, you’re both black, so i guess y’all have that in common *shrugs*
Lil wayne has been slept on over the past several years. He’s from a generation of lyrics and punchlines of the late 90s. Even his newer mumble rap style is better and clearer than any out there. Industry didn’t want him to outshine everyone so they popularized trash n violent rap that’s out today.
People been callin baby the new Wayne for years now. Lil baby started a whole new sound just like lil Wayne did back in his time… think about how many hundreds of rappers on the rise are all copying lil baby’s triplet flow… lil baby created a new wave and new mainstream sound this shit is straight facts whether u like baby and his sound or not
Lil Baby is the MC Hammer of this generation. Lil Wayne was an okay rapper in the Hot Boys years. Since that he has more ideas than talent. I wouldn’t say he’s totally trash, but definitely paved the way for these wack autotune ‘rappers’.
A young wack mainstream rapper comparing himself to another mainstream rapper who destroyed his career thanks to poor Beats and autotune…Lil Wayne’s talent died with his last good album the carter 2
You can’t even understands what he says