Kanye West is Lil Wayne's biggest fan
Monday, 23 June 2008
Rapper Kanye West has praised his hip-hop rival Lil Wayne - branding the star a "living legend".
The Gold Digger hitmaker is please to be working in the music industry alongside hip hop heavyweight Lil Wayne - and congratulates the rapper for the phenomenal success of his latest LP Tha Carter III - which has sold over a million copies in the U.S. in the first week of its release.
Lil Wayne's album, the third in a trilogy, is the fastest selling LP in America since 50 Cent's 2005 release The Massacre.
Kanye, who worked as a producer on the hit record, is proud of his peer's success - writing in his online blog that he his "pleased to know this guy".
He writes: "Bow in the presence of a true living legend in hip-hop. Lil Wayne the God."
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