Lil Wayne Admits He Gets Jealous of Eminem's Lines.

On his new sports and culture podcast, Lil Wayne said even he catches himself wishing he had written somebody else's bar first, and Eminem comes up a lot.

Lil Wayne launched The Joint Venture Show with WFAN radio veteran Craig Carton in July, a weekly YouTube sit-down built around sports debates, celebrity feuds and whatever headline is making noise that week. In a new episode published this week and first reported by eminem.news, Carton steered the conversation toward lyric envy, and Wayne did not try to play it cool.

Lil Wayne: "It doesn't even have to be a rap line. It can just be literally anything. You or somebody on the show says a phrase, and I'll be like, 'Wait, say that again.'"

Asked who does it to him most, Wayne pointed straight at Eminem.

Lil Wayne: "He has plenty of lines that I would say, 'Oh my, how did I not think of that?!'"

The Joint Venture Show full episode, cued to the exchange at 5:44.

Where this started: a Funyuns line from 2023

Carton did not pull the topic out of nowhere. He used an old Eminem social media post as the setup, from September 2023, when Eminem reacted to a line on YG and Tyga's "Brand New":

Eminem: "Bro Wayne just said 'got a bunch of zeros like a bag of new funyuns!!' FUCK why didn't I think of that????"

That post has been public for three years, which is the part worth sitting with. Eminem, by most accounts the most technically obsessive writer of his generation, publicly said he wished he had come up with Wayne's bar first. Carton read the post back to Wayne on air and asked whether the feeling runs the other way too. According to Wayne, it does, and it is not limited to rap at all.

The two have history beyond the tweet, including "No Love," "Forever" and "Drop the World," plus a prior sit-down on Eminem's Young Money Radio show. None of that came up in this particular exchange. It is a few minutes inside a much longer episode about sports and pop culture, not a conversation about either man's catalog.

Why a lighthearted admission like this is worth a story

Eminem's whole reputation rests on being the writer other writers measure themselves against, a point Rapsody and Busta Rhymes both made unprompted in separate interviews last month. Quavo did something similar on DJ Whoo Kid's show a few days later, naming three Eminem songs without pausing to think. Wayne's comment runs the opposite direction: instead of naming a favorite verse, he is naming the feeling of hearing one and wishing he had gotten there first, which coming from a rapper of Wayne's own standing is a bigger compliment than a top three list.

It also fits a pattern that keeps surfacing this year: the generation of rappers Eminem influenced keeps circling back to credit him directly instead of leaving it as subtext. YG built an entire song around flipping an Eminem flow, cadence and all, back in June. Wayne's comment is smaller, a few seconds inside a podcast about sports, but it is the same instinct. The lines stick, whether or not the artist saying so ever worked with him in a studio.

Neither Eminem nor his camp has responded to Wayne's comment, and nothing suggests they are expected to. This is a one sided compliment, paid on a podcast, traced back to a three year old tweet. Sometimes that is the whole story.