Rapper Kanye West has praised his hip-hop rival Lil Wayne - branding the star a "living legend".
The Gold Digger hitmaker is please to be working in the music industry alongside hip hop heavyweight Lil Wayne - and congratulates the rapper for the phenomenal success of his latest LP That Carter III - which has sold over a million copies in the U.S. in the first week of its release.
Lil Wayne's album, the third in a trilogy, is the fastest selling LP in America since 50 Cent's 2005 release The Massacre.
And West, who worked as a producer on the hit record, is proud of his peer's success - writing in his online blog that he his "pleased to know this guy".
He says, "Bow in the presence of a true living legend in hip-hop. Lil Wayne the God."