Lizzo is the latest star to weigh in on the always heated debate over the top MCs of all-time. In a post on Bluesky on Friday (Nov. 22) the “About Damn Time” singer offered up her top three rappers, in no particular order she said, and the first two on the list happen to be freshly at odds.
Lizzo’s trifecta includes Lil Wayne, Kendrick Lamar and Missy “Misdemeanor” Elliott, a fine roster of world-class mic technicians by any account. The post came just hours after K-Dot shocked the world with the surprise release on Friday of his sixth studio album, GNX. The 12-song R&B-inflected lyrical barrage includes an opening track, “wacced out murals,” which takes on Wayne’s publicly aired frustration over being passed over to perform during the halftime show at next year’s 2025 Super Bowl in his home town of New Orleans.
“Used to bump Tha Carter III, I held my Rollie chain proud/ Irony, I think my hard work let Lil Wayne down,” Kendrick raps on the song in reference to Weezy posting a video about how hurt he was about not being tapped to pay the plumb gig at the Caesars Superdome in February.
“Won the Super Bowl and Nas the only one congratulate me/ All these n—-s agitated, I’m just glad they showin’ they faces,” Lamar continued. Wayne did appear to take kindly to the shout-out, responding on Saturday morning, “Man wtf I do?! I just be chillin & dey still kome 4 my head,” he wrote. “Let’s not take kindness for weakness. Let this giant sleep. I beg u all. No one really wants destruction,not even me but I shall destroy if disturbed. On me. Love.”
Lizzo’s list is also interesting because it appears to continue the storyline of the explosive Drake/Kendrick feud, which was kicked off in 2023 with the Drizzy/J. Cole song “First Person Shooter,” on which Cole claimed the “big three” of modern hip-hop are himself, Drake and Lamar. That song set off a flurry of back-and-forth diss tracks between Drake and Lamar earlier this year that culminated with what most consider the final nail: K-Dot’s lacerating “Not Like Us.”
Comments on Lizzo’s Bluesky top three list included many fans rubber stamping the inclusion of Elliott, with one person writing, “Missy is Goated. Like golden statue goated. Like rename her childhood street goated” while another said, “I almost got into a fist fight with someone at a New Year’s Eve party when they said Missy Elliott wasn’t impactful to music.”
Two out of three of Lizzo’s picks made it into the mix for Billboard’s Best Pop Stars of the 21st Century, with Elliott gaining an honorable mention and Lil Wayne grabbing the 21st slot. For the record, Drake took the No. 4 spot while the top two pop icons have not yet been revealed.
