A few years later-as he raps here, "I don't need the Hot Boys, I still keep my heat / and I ain't gotta squad up, I still keep my feet"-Wayne went so far as to make a Jay Z homage tape, The Prefix, in the months leading up to Tha Carter. In the midst of them, he flipped Nas's Jay Z diss track "Ether" on there and turned it into a pro-Jay track. His beloved Sqad Up tapes are more or less an appeal to East Coast rap types to take him as seriously as the artists who originally rapped on the beats he uses. I'm beginning to feel a bit like a broken record talking about some of Lil Wayne's patterns over the years, but let's lay this out again: There's no way to understand Wayne's shift from Hot Boy to Best Rapper Alive without discussing his admiration of Jay Z. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Day 168: "Moment of Clarity" – The Prefix, 2004
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