Lil Wayne’s meteoric rise began in the final weeks of 2005, as the New Orleans native dropped Tha Carter II (at the time, his best studio album) and The Dedication (the first mixtape in his career-defining, six-part Dedication/Gangsta Grillz series). From then on, it was Wayne’s world. Over the next three years, he released 12 projects, including: nine official mixtapes, an EP of songs recorded during Tha Carter III sessions (The Leak), a collaborative album with Birdman (Like Father, Like Son), and his sixth studio album (Tha Carter III).
Lil Wayne cemented his status as the ‘Best Rapper Alive’ with a heat-check unlike anything Hip-hop has ever seen. During the mid-aughts, you couldn’t turn on the radio without hearing the free-flowing, metaphorical wordplay of Weezy. The ‘Lil Wayne Midas Touch’ was real — from 2006–10, he featured on 24 platinum-selling singles. In honor of his unprecedented ability to steal the scene with every feature, here are the 15 Best Lil Wayne guest verses…
