In a prospective Verzuz conflict, Lil Wayne has identified Roc-A-Fella Records as Cash Money’s top rival.
On a recent episode of retired NFL player and sportscaster Marcellus Wiley’s podcast, “More to It,” Weezy was questioned about who he thought would be a worthy challenger for Young Money or Cash Money in the Verzuz ring.
Wayne chose the Roc Boys despite hearing about illustrious labels like No Limit Records, Death Row Records, Bad Boy Records, and Quality Control Music.
“I would say the best competition, I would have to go with Roc-A-Fella,” he answered. “JAY-Z the homie.”
In the same interview, Lil Wayne referred to JAY-Z as the greatest rapper of all time and compared him to Tom Brady, the seven-time Super Bowl victor.
“The greatest rapper of all time is Shawn ‘JAY-Z’ Carter,” he declared. “When you do this rapping thing, obviously, like football, every sport is different. You play hockey, I’m sure they’ve got something that they only know about. Something that they probably can’t explain, but only they know. That thing in rap, that we only know in rap, he has that. “He’s the Tom Brady of that.”
In a 2016 interview with DJ Drama for Shade 45, Lil Wayne said JAY-Z sought to sign him to Roc-A-Fella Records for $175,000.
“You know, when I went out to talk to him about being at Roc-A-Fella—and mind you, this was years ago,” he said at the time. “First of all, he was at the 40/40 in the daytime, and when I got up there, he was talkin’; it was Denzel [Washington], it was Derek Jeter.”
“I was like, ‘This is his clique?’ And they’re up there just laughing at jokes I just don’t get. He literally sat me down next to him, and this is where all that is going on, and he sat me right here. Like, ‘You ain’t a part of this,’ you know? “And he would talk to me on the side after every joke.”
He continued: “That man offered me 175 [thousand dollars]. I said, ‘Believe that.’ I was looking like… two teeth in my mouth is 175 [thousand dollars]. My bottom teeth. “We laugh about that all the time.”
Lil Wayne threw up the Roc-A-Fella label’s trademark diamond hand sign while modifying a phrase on “I’m Me” during his performance at Tyler, the Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw festival in 2016, sparking rumors about his signing to the label during his legal dispute with Cash Money.
“I’m a muthafuckin’ Roc-A-Fella millionaire,” he rapped, replacing the mention of Cash Money with Hov’s label.
