Cassidy has taken credit for Lil Wayne’s improvement as a rapper over the years, claiming that prior to meeting him, Weezy wasn’t rapping at the level he’s at now.
The comments were made in an interview with DJUTV, where the Philly MC spoke on Drake’s recent claim that Wayne is “the greatest rapper to ever do this shit,” which he said while opening for Tunechi in Toronto earlier this week.
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“I think I inspired Lil Wayne to get the type of Wayne we got now,” Cassidy said. “I used to love Wayne before I came out and before I got with him. He used to rap different. Before I came out, a lot of n-ggas used to rap different.
“I shifted the culture, I changed shit up when I came out with this style of punching and being competitive and battle rapping on beat. So I made it mandatory where you had to say something, and once I came out with that style, a lot of n-ggas started to change — and so did Wayne.”
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He continued: “Then you started getting all those Carter projects and he started blacking out and really rapping. He was still a star and had dope ass records, but he wasn’t rapping, he wasn’t piecing up them syllables like that, he wasn’t coming with all these metaphors and similes and trying to punch and say creative shit back to back.
“Wayne definitely one of my favorites … I couldn’t say Wayne is the best when I feel like I’m the best, but he definitely one of my favorites, for sure.”
Cassidy and Lil Wayne have worked together on numerous occasions, most notably on his 2005 track “6 Minutes,” which certain rap heads have argued is one of Wayne’s greatest verses.
Drake is far from the only rapper that’s handed Wayne the title of G.O.A.T. Ice Cube also recently called Weezy the greatest rapper of all time, hailing his metaphors as “otherworldly.”
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“It’s hard to beat Lil Wayne,” Cube said during an interview on the On The Guest List podcast. “His metaphors are otherworldly. As far as lyrics and can make hits, you know. He’s been copied all these years and nothing but clones of Lil Wayne at the end of the day … He’s dope.”
Even Wayne himself believes he’s the best to ever do it. Upon learning that he was ranked No. 7 on Billboard Top 50 Greatest Rappers of All Time list in February, Tunchei said most rappers would disagree and put him at the top.
“I will tell you that I am a muthafuckin’ one,” Wayne said during a sit-down with Zane Lowe. “Everybody whose names you named, they also know I’m number one. Go ask ’em. They know what it is.”
As for Cassidy, this isn’t the first time in recent weeks he’s reminded folks about his legacy. In a separate interview with Bootleg Kev, he made a similar argument in regards to his lyrical impact on Hip Hop.
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“I think ever since I came out, I just changed the trajectory of how shit was going,” he said. “I made it more competitive, made you have to be more lyrical, made you have to have more punchlines and lyrics, and piece up more syllables just to sound like you was spittin’.
“Because before, you ain’t have nothin’ else to compare it to, but when you can listen to me doing it like this, if you supposed to be lyrical, you gotta be doing it to a certain level. So around that time I came out, you started to see a lot of people change.”
