Hip-hop custom has it that one adds “Lil” to their nаme. Though there have been several “Lil” rappers who have achieved success in the music industry, we are sure that Wayne is far and away the best. Whether taking into account his longevity, commercial success, or lyrical prowess, Lil Wayne is on the short list of the best rappers of all time.

The majority of us can recall entire Wayne songs and albums by heart, but the rapper’s height is something that is less talked about and widely unknown. Is his nickname satirical, like the 5’11” Lil Dicky, or is he genuinely on the shorter side?

Compared to other well-known rappers, Lil Wayne is smaller.

As it happens, Lil Wayne is true to his stage moniker. At 5’5″, the rapper Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. was even smaller when he first entered the music business. At the age of fifteen, Wayne made his music debut on the Hоt Boyz album Get It How U Live in 1997.

He revealed to Katie Couric of CBS News that he adopted his stage nаme because of his little height and his birth nаme, Dwayne. “I dropped the D because I’m a junior and my father is living and he’s not in my life and he’s never been in my life,” he said. “So I don’t want to be Dwayne, I’d rather be Wayne.”

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Few renowned emcees are shorter than Wayne in terms of height. Though he was only 5’3″, Eazy-E is arguably the most famous example, and Wayne has certainly surpassed the late N.W.A. frontman thanks to his musical accomplishments.

When it comes to peers, Wayne sang about his height in a song from 2018. He is exactly the same height as Kendrick Lamar, who worked with him on the song “Mona Lisa” from 2018, and he is one inch shorter than Big Boi, who worked with him on the 2006 Outkast song “Hollywood Divorce.”

Wayne has confirmed his height in the lyrics of his 2018 song “Open Safe.” In terms of peers, he is an inch shorter than Big Boi, who worked with him on the 2006 Outkast song “Hollywood Divorce,” and the same height as Kendrick Lamar, who collaborated with him on the 2018 song “Mona Lisa.” Despite the internet’s tendency to misreport information, Wayne recently told Culture Millennials that the reports of his net worth are wildly inaccurate.

The rapper is 5’5″, which he revealed in the lyrics of his 2018 song “Open Safe,” despite the fact that the internet is notorious for misreporting information (Wayne recently told Culture Millennials that the claims about his net worth are completely inaccurate):