ποΈDrake in a recent interview on him being compared with Lil Wayne:
Interviewer: "Looking at the data right now, you have way more monthly listeners on Spotify and sell out bigger venues than Lil Wayne ever did. Do you see yourself as bigger than him now?
Drake: "You see, in 2008, I had zero listeners. I was a broke kid in Toronto getting ready to give up on music entirely until Wayne heard my voice, paid out of his own pocket to fly me to Houston, and put me on his tour bus. He didn't just give me a feature; he stopped his own sold-out arena show halfway through, walked off the stage, and handed an unknown rookie the microphone for 20 minutes. He risked his peak era to build my career.
You can't be bigger than the person who built the house you're sitting in. I don't care if I get a billion streams tomorrow. Lil Wayne is the blueprint, heβs the reason I exist, and he will always be the greatest to ever do it. Period." π