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The legendary sports media personality, Skip Bayless, and the five-time Grammy-winning rapper, Lil Wayne, have become special friends with each other. It is surely an unexpected friendship, but that is the real fun of it. The supportive friends often chat with each other on Bayless’ show. And when the 70-year-old media personality attended the 40th birthday bash of Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.; fans could not stop themselves from reacting to the news.

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A friendship where both individuals find comfort and support in each other. Wayne frequently appears on the show Skip hosts, UNDISPUTED. And some or the other time, along with himself, one of the greatest rappers brings goodies for his friend. The two talk about various topics. Not only are they chatty, but the sports analyst only talks to Lil Wayne off-air.

Since they are great friends, Bayless and his wife, Ernestine Sclafani, visit Wayne at his mansion. On The Skip Bayless Show, he announced how proud he was of Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. and looks at him like a brother. “We’re both our own man, that we do and say what we believe is right. And I know Wayne looks up to me and what I achieved in my business and I look way up to him in his creative genius,” he said.

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This is how fans reacted to the picture Bayless posted of himself and the rapper!

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Does Skip Bayless dislike Aaron Rodgers?

Skip Bayless is an analyst. This inadvertently makes him a critic. Therefore, disliking or at least over-criticizing certain athletes becomes quite common for him. Like, his infamous displeasure for LeBron James and Aaron Rodgers is something that has been constant.

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And after the Week 3 game of the Green Bay Packers against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Skip was ready to type out a mean tweet after A-Rod made an interception.

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Rodgers threw an interception against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and frowned at the receiver, who cut his route short. Well, in the leading QB’s defense, the team is trying to rise against the absence of their former star receiver, Davante Adams. However, as an analyst, surely the viral Tweet will receive popping eyes and nodding heads. If it were Lil Wayne instead of the Packers QB, would Skip have typed that Tweet?

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Neha Joshi is an NFL writer at Essentially Sports. She is currently pursuing her postgraduate degree in English Literature from R.D National College, Mumbai and has also previously worked as a Graduate Intern at Jacobs. Her favorite athlete is football superstar Tom Brady, whom she finds immensely motivating. The following quote by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback is among her most treasured ones: "If you don't play to win, don't play at all", which more often than not inspires her to excel in every pursuit she takes up! When away from work, Neha indulges herself in browsing through Realistic English, Post Structuralist American, and Modern Indian Literature.

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