As for Jay's spot on Wayne's list, he talked about how much he influenced his style. “Like Biggie, love Biggie, love Jadakiss, I love all that sh–. But Jay…. the moment I heard it, I stopped. You could ask my boy. ‘I heard that n—a Jay-Z don’t write no more,'” he said during the Pivot podcast last month. “We went in the studio, and we did ‘10,000 Bars.’ And that was the last time I rapped anything off of a paper.”
With Goodie Mob, Wayne said they changed his life. “My homeboy CT — we call him Thugger, Camouflage Thugger, he’s one of Mack good, good homeboys — he put me onto [Goodie Mob] back in the day, in the seventh grade,” Wayne said in a 2016 interview with Genius. “He had me listening to that s–t every day. It changed my life. I started rapping about different things, and found out that it was OK to rap positive, actuall,y and to make it sound right. If you spittin’… not that it doesn’t matter what you’re spittin’ about, but if you spittin’, you got their ears. So you might as well make the most of it and take advantage of that fact. That’s what CeeLo and the whole Goodie Mob used to do.”
Check out Wayne's full list here.