Lil Wayne has put together a full 7-on-7 fantasy team comprised of Hip Hop stars, and Eminem is holding it down as the quarterback.
While talking with NFL star Travis Hunter on his eponymous podcast, a jovial Weezy thought long and hard about how he’d populate his team.
First up he had JAY-Z, noting, “I don’t know if he’s the coach or something, but he a veteran.”
He continued: “Then we need a proven superstar, and that would be my man Drizzy [Drake]. He could play both sides of the ball, he could sing and rap.
“Now we need somebody that could move so we going with…they gotta rap right?” he asked, before pivoting while he thought longer about that.
“This ain’t the mover, but I’m going with Kiss,” he said. “I think you see Kiss in that backfield and get scared.
“Found the mover, you probably thought I meant [a dancer] but I’ma fuck you up. Turn around and shake that ass for ’em – Nicki! Now we need some toughness. Do they have to be alive? I’m going with Biggie. Then this that wild card. I’m going with J. Cole. He gon’ keep the ship steady when we got the hot heads tripping.”
And finally, why he chose Em: “No race shit, but you gotta have a nice white boy as quarterback. I’m sorry. He could also be the kicker, you never know!”
He also has a backup player: “It was hard to leave Missy [Elliott] off my list. It was very hard so if I got a bench, then Missy on the bench. Missy coming in as my emergency player because she can do everything. She can sing dance and rap. And produce.”
The convo starts just after the 21-minite mark below.
She added: “Sometimes it’s hard to run into a real one in this business but when you do DON’T LET THEM GO A huge hug will let them know you appreciate them & their contributions to the CULTURE! Thank You @LilTunechi.”
Weezy named Missy in the No. 1 slot of his top five rappers when rattling off his list on the What’s Wright? With Nick Wright podcast in the past as well.
“It’s always gonna be first Missy Elliott,” he said. “She’s a huge influence of everything I’ve ever done. JAY-Z is the best ever to speak. Biggie, obviously. Then I have the whole Goodie Mob. Then I have UGK.”
Weezy has also previously credited Missy with inspiring him to start using ad-libs on tracks.
Suki Waterhouse has spoken candidly about how she found herself crying constantly after the birth of her daughter.
The singer and actress reflected on her experience as a mother more than two years after she and her partner, actor Robert Pattinson, welcomed their baby girl in March 2024.
During an interview with The Standard published on Thursday, Suki explained that motherhood has completely shifted her outlook on life.
"I think it's made me marvel at our humanness. It's so funny, even just your kid getting a fever, watching a little body recover from that, it's brought me down to what it is to be alive and I really love that," she said. "It feels very survivalist and medieval in a way, especially birth, birth is medieval."
The Daisy Jones & The Six actress, 34, shared that she was caught off guard by just how exposed and emotional she felt after giving birth to her daughter.
"I'm almost two and a half years in now, but when she was first born, I remember thinking that I can't believe everybody does this and I can't believe how vulnerable I feel," she told the publication. "I was crying all the time."
Suki continued, "It makes me cry now thinking about it. It was just... shocking."
The Notting Hill singer also admitted that she has never considered herself someone who cries easily, making those emotions all the more surprising.
"It's so f**king weird! I'm not a cryer! I'm so not an emotional person, I'm such a Capricorn. But being a mum just fed me up in such a sweet way," she stated. "It just absolutely broke open my heart, and I'm just madly in love and, despite my crying right now, I enjoy it so much and I'm so taken by my daughter and so in love with doing it with my partner and I just feel the preciousness of it very much."
Suki and Twilight actor Robert, 40, have been in a relationship since 2018 and announced they were expecting their first child together toward the end of 2023.
The pair have largely kept their romance away from the spotlight and have yet to publicly share the name of their daughter.
