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Lil Wayne has influenced the style of multiple generations of rappers from the likes of Kendrick Lamar to Ken The Man.
Few artists have inspired Weezy, though, and in the latest clip from Jim Jones recent exclusive interview for HipHopDX’s
#Hack3d video series the
El Capo rapper affirms Juelz Santana was one of them. Jimmy actually recalled the time he spent with the
Funeral rapper while discussing the stylistic influence Dipset had in early 2000s era Hip Hop with Tuma Basa, director of Black music and culture at YouTube, and elaborated on how Wayne picked up their trends and created his own swag.
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The relationship between the Recording Academy and the Black music community has been fraught since 1989. That’s when DJ Jazzy Jeff and Will Smith boycotted the Grammy Awards upon learning that the first-ever presentation for best rap performance (which they later won) would not be televised.
In the following 30 years, R&B and hip-hop have seen Grammy highs (album of the year wins for Lauryn Hill and OutKast in 1999 and 2004, respectively) and frustrating lows (snubs for both JAY-Z and Kendrick Lamar in that same category, in 2018) as the 63-year-old academy has grappled with the community’s demands for greater representation and more transparency in the nomination process overall.