Lil Wayne & Drake “B.B. King Freestyle”

Lil Wayne had quite the busy year. Most recently, he excited fans with the release of the long anticipated third installment of his No Ceilings mixtapes.

The first mixtape was released in 2009, at the end of the prolific online mixtape era that Wanye was both a pioneer and leader of, and the second mixtape came six years later in 2015.

Since No Ceilings 3 is just that - a mixtape - it didn’t land on major streaming services.  To listen to it in its entirety, you’d have to hit mixtape streaming websites like DatPiff or Spinrilla. 

However…

One single from the tape did make its way to major platforms, and it features his prodigal son, Drake.  When these two connect, it’s undoubtedly a hit.  You could fill a book with song’s they’ve worked on together, but this cut (their first together since 2017) is near the top of that group.  

“B.B. King Freestyle” - named after legendary blues musician B.B. King - is slick, catchy, contagious and mellow. Drake exhibits his extremely catchy flow, employing three syllable rhyme schemes, for the first half of the song. 

At the 2:15 mark, Wayne enters with a similar flow to Drake. I shit you not, it might be physically impossible to listen to it and not nod your head along.  Give it a listen and let us know. Seriously - we’re doing research.

Written by Sam Kalchbrenner, Edited by Emma Barsky