10 Songs That Made Ric Flair A Hip-Hop Icon

7. Ric Flair - Tory Lanez

Ric Flair:

Verb - to pay out, disburse, or extend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc)

That's who's standing here today, the world's heavyweight champion, only one, and you're looking at him. Lord knows I can't stand it. Now I gotta talk, y'all gotta be quiet. Nikita Koloff, we've only just begun - Ric Flair

Tory Lanez is to the rap game what Buddy Landell was to Ric Flair. However, in the modern rap game, being a poor man's anyone is no hindrance to success. Dropping 'Ric Flair' a month before his debut gold album in 2016, Lanez's eponymous tribute is a veritable ode to 'naitching'.

Employing a classic Flair promo from his 1988 feud with Nikita Koloff to set the tone, the Toronto native channels Naitch in a vitriolic oration of excess and flippancy.

"Ric Flair, these b*tches love me on my Ric Flair "

Running down the ways in which he frivolously spends money, like only the Nature Boy could, Lanez lists Jordans, cars, magnum rubbers and R. Kelly's lawyer's fees as his styling and profiling purchases.

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