--- title: Lil Wayne: It's 'Cool' If Hillary Clinton Uses His Lyrics description: Hillary Clinton may not seem like a Lil Wayne fan, but a line in her presidential nomination speech at the DNC seemed to echo the rapper canonical: https://time.com/4431590/hillary-clinton-speech-lil-wayne/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-29T21:49:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:40:14.216Z article:section: Politics og:title: This Line From Hillary Clinton's Speech Sounded a Lot Like Lil Wayne og:description: Lil Wayne says he's "cool with it" og:url: https://time.com/4431590/hillary-clinton-speech-lil-wayne/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt483e6d28baffb071/6988a0768e0601549c466fd3/lil_wayne_clinton_speech_horizontal.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 2000 og:image:alt: Lil Wayne og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Line From Hillary Clinton's Speech Sounded a Lot Like Lil Wayne twitter:description: Lil Wayne says he's "cool with it" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt483e6d28baffb071/6988a0768e0601549c466fd3/lil_wayne_clinton_speech_horizontal.jpg?branch=production ---  # This Line From Hillary Clinton's Speech Sounded a Lot Like Lil Wayne  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jul 29, 2016 9:49 PM UTC  Lil Wayne performing at Staples Center in Los Angeles, June 25, 2016. Lil Wayne performing at Staples Center in Los Angeles, June 25, 2016.Thaddaeus McAdams—FilmMagic/Getty Images  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Jul 29, 2016 9:49 PM UTC Hillary Clinton may not seem like a Lil Wayne fan, but a line in her presidential nomination [acceptance speech](http://time.com/4429815/dnc-hillary-clinton-speech-theme/) at the Democratic National Convention seemed to echo the rapper. “When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit,” Clinton [said Thursday](http://time.com/4429984/dnc-hillary-clinton-speech-video-transcript/), referring to her cracking the proverbial glass ceiling with her primary win. Some on Twitter were quick to recognize that the phrase resembled a lyric from Lil Wayne’s 2009 _No Ceilings_ mixtape. “There is no ceilings, there is only the sky. And the sky is the limit. Christopher Wallace said that,” he says in the song. > [](https://twitter.com/cthagod/status/758859350903357440) > [](https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/758859538090995712) For Lil Wayne’s part, the rapper says he’s “very cool with it” in an [interview](http://www.tmz.com/2016/07/29/lil-wayne-hillary-reaction-clinton-dnc-speech-no-ceilings/) captured by TMZ, though he noted he has never met the presidential candidate. 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