Image via Getty/Craig Barritt At this point, it feels like a rite of passage for the hottest MC in the game to liken themselves to Jay-Z. Most recently, Lil Baby took a stab at it by proclaiming, “No Cap, you know I’m baby Jay-Z,” on his Instagram Story. Jay-Z has been around so long that it feels like he’s lived this Jordan/Kobe dynamic several times over with the likes of Kanye West, Lil Wayne, T.I., and Drake. Those relationships were built off reverence, but some succumbed to “idols become rivals” energy. It doesn’t seem likely to happen with Lil Baby, though. His aspiration to be “baby Jay-Z” isn’t predicated on one-upping him, just “following in his footsteps,” as he told