Lil Wayne has drafted a fantasy football team full of rappers, selecting JAY-Z as Tom Brady, or the dream team’s highly respected former quarterback.
The rapper and sports aficionado stopped by Pittsburgh Steelers star Cam Heyward’s Not Just Football podcast earlier this month and outlined his squad.
He began: “I obviously gotta be the coach … As far as quarterback, you need a thinker, someone that can oversee everything and make everybody feel great about themselves. So you need an artist that can work with everybody, and so, therefore you need an artist with multiple skills … I gotta go with my god, the 6 God, as the quarterback. Champagne Papi. We’re going with Drizzy as the quarterback. ‘Cuz also, Jay would be Tom Brady, so Jay’s not in this. JAY-Z is Tom Brady, he’s just retired. He’s got a new job coming up, he’s making $300 million, he’s gonna be okay.
“I want the running back to be tough. I like tough running backs … Our running back will have to be someone like … Beanie Sigel. You see Beanie Sigel back there, and you’re like, ‘Please don’t give him the ball.’”
He added: “At wide receiver, we need somebody that’s gotta be flamboyant. They gotta be swaggy … We going Future. Future’s tall, and also, he coulda been quarterback. You know how the wide receiver can come in and play quarterback at times … Opposite him we’re going with 2 Chainz.
Check out Weezy’s whole team in the clip below, which begins at about the 3:45 mark.
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During that same episode, Weezy listed his dream musical collaborations, naming several artists who are sadly no longer alive.
“Michael Jackson,” he said off top. “The second one would be — not even the second [but] 1A would be Prince. You already know that the other two — if we’re going to do rap — the other two have to be Biggie and ‘Pac, plain and simple.”
He then shifted his focus to partnerships that are still possible and added: “Now somebody that’s living, that’s right here walking this planet with us: Lauryn Hill.”
Wayne also recently let it be known where his allegiance lies in the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar.
While performing his 2011 Drake collaboration “The Motto” in Las Vegas earlier this month, the Young Money founder held up his OVO chain to the crowd and seemingly rapped the refrain from Kendrick’s chart-topping diss song “Not Like Us.”
Reactions to the gesture were mixed, with fans undecided on what Wayne’s intent was. Some believed he was backing his former understudy Drizzy, while others interpreted it as co-sign for his “Mona Lisa” collaborator K. Dot.
Upon closer inspection of the footage, however, Weezy could be heard putting his spin on Kendrick’s chorus and instead saying: “They don’t like us.”
