Sibling Rivalry: Lil Wayne & Drake
AUDIO By J. Tinsley on December 10, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Love ‘em or hate ‘em. Listen to ‘em frequently or never dare to include ‘em on a playlist. Through strategy or sheer coincidence, Young Money are the 2009 Rolling Stones. With their debut compilation, We Are Young Money, set to hit stores in weeks (and the internet even sooner), the posse’s go-to-acts, Lil’ Wayne and Drake, stand at the forefront of the movement. Using a similar format as the Jay-Z/Kanye West installment from months earlier, the extensive lyrical history between these two is examined.
NOTE: Only records containing verses from both Drake and Wayne were used. Then again, that was still 17 records. Be prepared, this is long-winded.
Drake Feat. Lil’ Wayne – “Brand New” (Remix)
Drake: “Is this going to last?/Are we up on a pedestal?/ Are we moving too fast?/I feel like I’m in crazy competition with the past…”
Wayne: “This here is on some remix shit/It seems like everything I do they’re leakin’ it…”
Synopsis: Granted, Wayne used Drizzy’s flow (and recorded his verse after the original), BUT he used it damn near perfectly.
Drake: 0
Wayne: 1
Drake Feat. Lil’ Wayne & Nutt Da Kid – “Stunt Hard”
Drake: “Who do you look up to when you’re better than your idols?/And how you posed to look when you do it with your eyes closed?/I’m everything that you just haven’t become/I spend my time trying to outdo what hasn’t been done…”
Wayne: “And I smoke that shit that smell like when you take your cast off/And I got them beach bitches, like David Hasselhoff…”
Synopsis: Even with Wayne’s admission of penning ‘all Stunna’s bars,’ Drake edges out Weezy with his own story of his eventual rise to Hip-Hop’s elite.
Drake: 1
Wayne: 1
Drake Feat. Lil’ Wayne & Nutt Da Kid – “I Want This Forever”
Drake: “I’m so unsigned it would blow one’s mind…”
Wayne: “I make a blue-eyed bitch just admire my red/ I’m a blood mothafucka/A Blood mothafucka/ Forever, like e-t-c period muthafucka…”
Synopsis: Look at that Drake bar. You think record labels are kicking themselves right now?
Drake: 2
Wayne: 1
Drake: “I deserve a MTV show for me and my peopleAnd if you tryin’ to ‘zone’, I got a whole Swisher Sweet full/ Rappers all liars and they women are deceitful/Addin’ till they subtract me, I’ll never be an equal…”
Wayne: “I’m wit it if money is the ‘it’ you want me wit/And I probably just spit on the chick you won’t be wit/And I hate a boney bitch, only like ‘em only thick/And I own Hip-Hop, if you don’t spit, I’m gon’ evict…”
Synopsis: This is one of those tracks where I was damn near clueless on who to pick. But since ties don’t exist here, I’m siding with Weezy mainly because dude’s flow was type crazy. Then again Drake’s was as well. Argue it out amongst yourselves. The whole Karrine spill was funny too.
Drake: 2
Wayne: 2
Lil’ Wayne Feat. Drake – “Stuntin’”
Drake: “Fuck all the discreet shit, I get on some deep shit/ I am 21, tell me who do I compete with?/ I’m on my elite shit/ You can tell I’m real cause I’m getting hood love/ And I ain’t even talkin’ street shit…”
Wayne: “The supplement I’m taking got me filling my tee/ My gunny money don’t split, call the shit Siamese/ Yes, my watch make the frickin’ time freeze/ Your girl blessed me, she sucked my dick and I sneezed…”
Synopsis: Another difficult selection. The whole point of Dedication 3 was to showcase the talent on Young Money. Mission accomplished. Drizzy for the win with the game winning jumper.
Drake: 3
Wayne: 2
Drake Feat. Trey Songz & Lil’ Wayne – “Successful”
Drake: “Fans of these freshman is about iffy/While this youngin’ that you doubted is about to get busy…”
Wayne: “That’s word to Toronto/ So high up, I got birds in the condo/Ain’t that a female dog/Ask her who I am to her, and she yell ‘God’…”
Synopsis: One of the staple records which propelled Drake into the national spotlight. This was likely the most obvious out of the bunch.
Drake: 4
Wayne: 2
Drake Feat. Lil’ Wayne – “Ignant Shit”
Drake: “The same niggas I ball with, I fall with/On some southern drawl shit/Rookie of the Year, ’06, Chris Paul shit…”
Wayne: “I don’t stunt, I stunt hard/And if the food ain’t on the stove, I hunt for it…”
Synopsis: Wayne more than makes up for his abbreviated appearance on “Successful” with more quotables here than many can begin to catch on the first listen.
Drake: 4
Wayne: 3
Drake Feat. Santogold & Lil’ Wayne – “Unstoppable”
Drake: “I fall in love with girls caught up in superficial glamour/Who dress like Sarah Jessica and live like Princess Dianna…”
Wayne: “Hoe just, text me on my line you want some more dick/Mo’ dick, old bitch, young bitch/But I be like daaammmmn, all I got is one dick…”
Synopsis: Toss up. There isn’t really a “right” answer for this, but as of this very moment Wayne gets the nod.
Drake: 4
Wayne: 4
Drake Feat. Bun B & Lil’ Wayne – “Uptown”
Drake: “I just always did my own thing/ Now I run the game, you stupid muddasuckas/I see all this money through my Ohio State Buckeyes…”
Wayne: “Now I’m on that rock shit, but why they let me in?/I’ma start shootin’ in a mosh pit…”
Synopsis: Anytime Bun B. decides to drop a new verse, that’s always a win. However, like “Successful”, Drake gets the nod because he had more room to operate on the track. It’s not fair, but neither is life.
Drake: 5
Wayne: 4
Drake, Lil’ Wayne & Young Jeezy – “I’m Goin’ In”
Drake: “Never see me out cause I live in my work place/I give you the business, so button up your shirt straight/Look at where I landed, you would think I planned it/I’m just doin’ me and you could never understand it…”
Wayne: “Hello muthafucka, hey, hi, how ya dern?/It’s Weezy F. Baby come to take a shit and urine/On the toilet bowl bitches/Pussy ass niggas/Stompin’ on this beat like a muthafuckin’ Sigma…”
Synopsis: I’m sure David enjoyed the Sigma shout out, but Drake’s the one who really ‘went-in’ on this track.
Drake: 6
Wayne: 4
Drake: “I would fuck with all of y’all/All of yall are beautiful/I just can’t pick one/So you can never say I’m choosey, hoes…”
Wayne: “I like a long hair, thick redbone/Open up her legs and filet mignon that pussy/ I’ma get in and on that pussy/If she let me in, I’ma own that pussy…”
Synopsis: By far the most difficult song to pick from the batch. After hearing “Every Girl” in clubs nonstop since the spring, Wayne edges this one out mainly because he had the best intro line to a verse since Boosie on “Wipe Me Down.” For a club smash, at least.
Drake: 6
Wayne: 5
Drake Feat. Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne & Eminem – “Forever”
Drake: “Dropped a mixtape, the shit sounded like an album/Who’d a thought a country wide tour would be the outcome/Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm/Everybody gotta deal, I did it without one…”
Wayne: “Life is such a fuckin’ roller coaster then it drops/But what should I scream for?/This is my theme park…”
Synopsis: Had it not been for Eminem, Drake would have the best verse on the entire record.
Drake: 7
Wayne: 5
Lil’ Wayne & Drake – “My Darlin’ Baby”
Drake: “Just say yes, not no/The club is overrated baby, let’s not go/Let’s stay home and burn a couple calories/Fuck the house up and have the maid earn her salary…”
Wayne: “She gotta smile on her that puts a smile on me/She cater to me, she get all Destiny’s Child on me…”
Synopsis: Weezy and Drake trade bars about their dream female. For as trivial as it may sound, Drake simply had more quotables this round.
Drake: 8
Wayne: 5
Drake: “I’m at the W, but I can’t meet you in the lobby/Girl, I gotta watch my back/I’m not just anybody…”
Wayne: “She got that good, good/ She Michael Jackson ‘Bad’/I’m attracted to her/With her attractive ass…”
Synopsis: Similar to “Every Girl,” Wayne has a catchy intro bar. Unfortunately, Drake one upped him this time and even managed to drop a Ricky Bobby reference.
Drake: 9
Wayne: 5
DJ Khaled Feat. Young Jeezy, Rick Ross, Drake, Lil’ Wayne & Usher – “Fed Up”
Drake: “And the question still remains/ Have I counted all the money that I’ve managed to obtain?/Niggas dedicating overtime to damaging my name/And somehow I’m still the hottest muthafucka in the game…”
Wayne: “I’m sick of being criticized/That’s why I’m higher than the Star Trek Enterprise/I do it big, don’t get mad cause you minimized/I keep a red flag case I get penalized…”
Synopsis: The true winner in this is watching DJ Khaled perform his own stunts in the video.
Drake: 10
Wayne: 5
Birdman Feat. Drake & Lil’ Wayne – “Money To Blow”
Drake: “I am on a 24 hour champagne diet/ Spillin’ while I’m sippin, I encourage you to try it/I’m probably just saying that cause I don’t have to buy it/The club owner supply it, boy I’m on that fly shit…”
Wayne: “And I’m with two women make you take a second look/We poppin’ like champagne bottles but we never shook/And we gon’ be alright if we put Drake on every hook…”
Synopsis: Weezy’s admission only confirmed what the entire industry had been thinking.
Drake: 11
Wayne: 5
Birdman Feat. Drake & Lil’ Wayne – “4 My Town (Play Ball)”
Drake: “Ok, they say that I’m the one in fact/Some say I’m they favorite, but I ain’t hearing none of that/I’m about my team, hoe/Young Money running back…”
Wayne: “You know you paid when you got Baby withcha/It’s Young Money, like Ben Frank’s baby pictures/It’s the lady twister, I kiss her whiskers/I been runnin’ this shit, blisters…”
Synopsis: Figuratively speaking, Wayne hit this one out the park.
Drake: 11
Wayne: 6
And thus concludes another installment of “Sibling Rivalry.” Does this mean Drake has become “better” than Wayne? Not in the least bit, but with Weezy’s looming prison sentence, it could prove to be the best and most important signings in recent memory. In other words, Young Money’s got themselves one hell of an insurance policy.
Download — Lil’ Wayne & Drake Collabs
71 Comments
I prefer Wayne’s verses on “Successful” and “Forever”. Other than that I can’t disagree.
Drake > Weezy. All day.
I’ma let you finish, but Best Rapper Alive? had the best ______ vs Wayne of all time! Of all time!
*Trackstar shrug*
lol nah but good stuff here. i’ve actually only heard like 7 of these records.
Drake > Weezy. All day.
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TruthWayne’s forever verse is better than Drizzy’s.
Other than that I would say spot on.
I honestly don’t remember Wayne on “Forever.” Kanye either for that matter
Track, you made it to MTV. You win by default homie lmao.
Young Money, Cash Money, never no money…
I like the original forever wit kid kid, wayne had a better verse there…
cmon. drake wrote most of those verses for wayne
cmon. drake wrote most of those verses for wayne
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Drake vs Drake? who wins?
Track, you made it to MTV. You win by default homie lmao.
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Always a team effort over here. We all made it to MTV.
Of course that means I’m also taking partial credit for this post.
That song from Dedication 3 was rather nice.
Old Drake > New Drake
It’s safe to say that Drake is better than Wayne right now. Wayne lacks consistancy, where Drake lacks experience.
It’s safe to say that Drake is better than Wayne right now.
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Not to me.
There’s something to be said for Wayne’s ability to not only flow on any track but to tailor said flow to the beat.
Drake sounds exactly the same on every song.
Versatility is key.
cmon. drake wrote most of those verses for wayne
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Got proof?
Drake sounds exactly the same on every song.
Versatility is key.
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Unless your looking to have a mainstream following.. Look at fucking Nickelback.. lol
wow wayne eats drake man drake is turrible now ill agree on im goin in but thats it man wayne handles drake ez man i mean i cant listen to drake for mo then a week
annd yah i know im a wayne head but damn dude drake is good but borrring real good verse but shit flow dude real talk and im a wayne head cause wayne the shit so dont care take shots but this list whack
Drake needs to put out an album before he’s got anything on Weezy. If re-marketing an old mixtape gives you cred, then I’m looking forward to picking up copies of The Dedication series when Wayne clues in to the scheme…
Drake sounds exactly the same on every song.
Versatility is key.
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Unless your looking to have a mainstream following.
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You got me there lol.
I’m not mad at Drake. I’ve cooled off on him somewhat but I’m still a fan. But I also think Wayne is still the real deal. Drake has to show me something on Thank Me Later.
Ps. Nice shot of Aubrey propped up on stage with his fan club.
great write up. and of course, pulling all of their tracks 2gether for the crew was great as well. yep.
^^^ Yeah, what Ghostdini said.
Nice work, Tins.
I’d have to disagree with the “Successful”, “Uptown”, “Forever”, and “Money to Blow” verses. “4 My Town” is debatable.
I say it’s Drake: 7 Wayne: 10
Wayne’s swag is just too hard to overcome. And his verses on “Uptown” and “Successful” make those songs what they are…especially “Uptown”…”That’s word to Toronto. So high up, I got birds in the condo.” Pusha T voice: Ughh!
Correction: I’ll give Drake, “Forever” and “Money to Blow”
That “runnin from the cops” line killed it for Wayne.
And I’ll give “4 My Town” to Wayne
8 to 9 Wayne
Esco, you think Wayne was the best on “Successful”?
I gotta disagree there. But hey, that’s what this is for. It’s all opinion at the end of the day.
Drake sucks. Period. Needs to stop rapping with that pseudo-american accent. How does he differ from the other new batch of emcees lyrically???
Great post.
Those ‘Unstoppable’ quotes remind me of David D’s literary corner.
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You guys always come up with some clever post. I feel you, but I don’t. The more I hear from drake the less I like him. Weezy holds it down all day though.
Damn, I got this 13-4 Drake.
Damn, I got this 13-4 Drake.
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Then you got it wrong lol.
Easily Wayne, c’mon…
Can’t love everything he puts out – but he does what the great artists should do.
He’s the only one, any genre, who is genuinely unpredictable. Even when he fucks up you give him the benefit cos he’s pushing it all the time – and when he’s good he’s just better than any other fuckin fucker.
Thanks for the comp.
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Firstly, great topic. Obviously It’s difficult to objectively compare the two because when you put them on a scale of experience they are almost polar opposites. So good work not getting into the whole “whos a better rapper”/”he said she said he ghostwrites for him”
Secondly, am I the only one that feels like Wayne dominated “Goin in?” Also, why was ‘congratulations’ omitted from the comparison?
I’m a big fan of both of these cats, but like AmpGeez I’ve definitely been a little disappointed with Drake’s versatility thus far. So even though we’re looking at each dude verse against verse and not career vs. career ; Drake’s flow is starting to get a little stale for me. So I had to give a few of the more recent collabos to Wayne for keeping my attention by mixing up his cadence from song to song.
Either way curious to see what Thank Me Later has to offer.
I don’t agree with a few but I really have to take offense to the ‘Unstoppable’ assessment. If you listen to Drake’s flow and how it matches the beat, there is NO contest.
A great topic overall, I would have given Drake the nod for a few others but everyone has a right to their opinion.
rich
no way does Drake beat Wayne on ‘Successful’.
“how come I can’t miss a woman like I can’t miss court dates”
not giving 4 my town to drake is criminal. Off the hook alone he took that song…but i really throw alot of these in the air. not convinced by drake and its hard 2 compare wayne with ppl in his circle, he just absorbs everyone’s style
no way does Drake beat Wayne on ‘Successful’.
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Of course Drake beat dude:
“My momma tried to run away from home but I left somethin’ in the car/ in the driveway/ So she cried to me/ so I cried too/ And my stomach was soak in wet/ she only 5’2″”
Wayne didn’t really do much for me. Especially that “Bullshit/Cowshit”… well, bullshit.
My bad, I quoted a “Successful” rhyme.
Maybe I’m overrating dude, but I’m under the impression dude is about to drop one of the better debut albums ever.
He’s versatile aight. Dude wrote “Unthinkable” lmao.
wow, you guys REALLY think that wayne is LYRICALLY better than DRAKE?? wtf??
lil wayne is one of the most inconsistent MC’s of all time..
questions: would drake EVER in his life drop this corny ass “freestyle?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24GcORFEeCw (this right here is just terrible)
Sorry, not trying to hate, i even dig wayne here and there (when he’s not makin that dumbed-down corny radio garbage).
questions: would drake EVER in his life drop this corny ass “freestyle?”
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Didn’t Wayne text Drake that “freestyle” he did on Flex’s show?
Maybe I’m overrating dude, but I’m under the impression dude is about to drop one of the better debut albums ever.
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Oh, there’s no doubt he’ll drop an album to remember. As long as they don’t keep leaking his best work like they did to the carter 3 (Drought is Over 2: Carter 3 Sessions), he’ll be fine.
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Off topic: Tha Carter III could’ve been a bonafide classic, but they fucked him by leaking his shit over and over. After that, I think he just decided to pick out 16 hot songs and put them on a cd. Hopefully tha carter 4 is: giggle free, has deep songs, and is original. I’ll be happy then.
Damn this is stupid.
I think Drake is boring, he’s got no vibe, he looks so out of place on that team, he looks like some boring ass no personality jock
and he raps like that too.
He looks and sounds like he should be on American Idol, not Young Money
Well done article.
While I’m not the biggest fan of both I enjoy there stuff every now and then.
I would listen to Drake and Wayne way before Gucci.
YO, gotta disagree on a few. Wayne merked Drake on “Forever” and “Ransom”. Know you picked Wayne on “Ranson” but it wasn’t close, that is one of Wayne’s best verses EVER. Flow is crazy on that song.
Yo cmon…how anybody gon say drake better than wanye…fuck u been at the last couple years…wayne got mo fire than drake heard for real
for the most part i agree with that
this is how i see it haha:
old wayne > new wayne
old drake > new drake
old wayne > old drake > new drake > new wayne
(new wayne for me is anything after carter III)
(new drake would then be anything after he (unfortunately) got signed to young money)
young money: Shortest rappers in hip hop.
I think they bout equal
ok ill say Wayne’s flow is better than Drake’s but other than that Drake’s better… i think Drake is like evrything Wayne wants to be; wity, can sing and just overall mainstream as fuck… and Drake does have a good flow but he seems to mimic the flows of other ppl he’s rapping with… thats the one big ? i have about dude… and that list up top seems on point and unbias unlike some ppl commenting..
this is my first time on this site. and i have to say, YOU ARE FUCKING RETARDED. Kill yourself for giving weezy ANY wins. drake dropped one of the hottest lines in every girl (les be honest). and why would you even include brand new. drake was singing. hes not gonna be on that lyrical shit.IMO he still killed wayne on that song. i could go on, but bottomline, im sick of lil waynes retarded ass being call the best rapper alive and so forth.
^^^^^ co-sign 100%
Glad I’m not a media sheep like most people in this discussion.
If this was 1996 and lil wayne called labeled himself “the best rapper alive” you think artist’s would stand for that bs? lmao
LMAO @ CJ. You seem upset. Chill.
And people never ceases to amaze me with this “if this was the ’90′s” argument.
if you wrote this…kill yourself.
Wayne talks the most shit ive ever heard and none of its clever…how anyone could try and make it siound clever is beyond me..
Gotty, what the fuck is this doing on the site??
Damn, did dwayne just get dusted by a man named Aubrey? I think all seen this coming…
Anotha Time,
MaLLY
OH AND I BET 8 YEARS AGO WAYNE WOULD NEVER BE CAUGHT IN SKINNY JEANS WITH SUPRAS…
Don’t see how you can compare the two…Wayne has had platinum albums since I was in high school, Drake has had 0 albums. He had one song on the radio that was popular (and very corny). Tons of people come and go, not that many enjoy a lengthy stay. I think people hate on Wayne because he looks so damn weird, but he is definitely lyrical. As far as Drake, his goddamn eyebrows freak me out. He looks like that sad puppy you put the money into at 7-11. Maybe it’s just in my blood to reject that corny shit.
LOVE them both.
you cant compare them they are on two completely different levels.
they are both AMAZING rappers. if you dont agree try to make a decent 1 minute rap and see how hard it is. they both do what they do really well. everyone should stop hating.. if you dont have anything nice to say, why even say something.
I have a hard time comparing them. I mean wayne is on that “I’m already the best, I’ll just get high and say some crazy ass shit” game, and Drake basically raps about being awesome, no gangster aspect at all. I like em both for different reasons, don’t know how to compare them though.
“and we’ll be alright if we put DRAKE on every hook” lol most classic lil wayne bar ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wayne definitely got the +1 on stunt hard…Been pimpin since Hulk Hogan was NWO…CLASSIC shit had me almost fallin out my chair when i first heard it…
@Liv: If I don’t think Drake is an amazing rapper why do I need to know how to write a rap? I can look at a painting and tell if its shit, but I can’t paint. And I can look at someone playing basketball, and know if they are good at not – without being able to play. If something sounds bad to me, I’m going to say just that. Thanks, though.
Im not reading everyones stuff because i dont have time for that so i apologize if this is a repeat.
I have all the appreciation in the world that you have to write controversial articles to drive traffic, but nothing your cheap lyrical analysis can come up with combats the fact that Lil’ Wayne made Drake.
i thought drake destroyed wayne on ransom. mainly because wayne went extra stupid with reciting the whole alphabet. other than else, with some toss ups, drake wins in my list too
WHY THE HELL ARE ALL OF YOU ARGUING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT LIL WAYNE AND DRAKE DON’T EVEN GIVE A DAMN ABOUT IT. DAMN GET OVER IT. EVERYBODY HAS THEIR OWN OPINION ON WHO’S BETTER. I PREFER DRAKE. WHO GIVES A DAMN? AIN’T NONE OF OUR OPINIONS IMPORTANT.