Lil Wayne Honored With Exhibit At National Museum Of African American Music

    Lil Wayne has hit the point in his career where he’s being honored with his very own exhibit at the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) for his 40th birthday.

    According to an official press release, the NMAAM in Nashville, Tennessee, will host an event for people to view artifacts provided by Weezy, such as his Grammy for Rap Album of the Year, his BET “I Am Hip-Hop” Award, a handwritten letter from Rikers Island and an original CD of his major label debut album, Tha Block Is Hot.

    Students attending the exhibit will also hear a virtual speech from Lil Wayne as well as live music. There will also be an interactive portion of the exhibit where people can record themselves reciting Lil Wayne’s lyrics in a rap booth set up by the NMAAM.

    Additionally, attendees will also be treated to a live-streamed lecture organized by a group of Vanderbilt professors. The live-streamed lecture will reflect on Weezy’s career delivered by professors Dr. Gillum Sharpley, Associate Chair of African American & Diaspora Studies, and Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Centennial Chair and University Distinguished Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies.

    “I’m very grateful to work with NMAAM and show students how Hip-Hop has been so influential on the culture,” Lil Wayne said in a statement. “Shout out to NMAAM for all the birthday love.”

    H. Beecher Hicks III, president & CEO of NMAAM, added: “We are thrilled to honor and feature Lil Wayne and start our relationship with such a generous donation. On the heels of Mr. Carter expressing his interest in partnering with us, we found out that ten years ago, he became the first male artist to surpass Elvis Presley with the most entries on the Billboard Hot 100, with 109 songs.”

    The news of the exhibit comes just days after Lil Wayne received an outpouring of love on his 40th birthday from peers such as Kanye West, Drake, Nicki Minaj, Chris Brown, 2 Chainz, Cam’ron, Missy Elliott, Snoop Dogg, NBA YoungBoy, DJ Khaled, Janet Jackson and more.

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    Lil Wayne also received 22 new platinum certifications on the same day as his birthday from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

    The new platinum plaques span Wayne’s entire career and include some of his biggest singles, with one of the biggest accomplishments being “6 Foot 7 Foot,” and “Love Me” featuring Drake and Future, which are now 7x platinum.

    8 thoughts on “Lil Wayne Honored With Exhibit At National Museum Of African American Music

    1. Sometimes we make a big joke of ourselves and our culture. Lil Wayne is a all of Fame GOAT MC but come on now. An African American museum? The hell has he done for the advancement of black folks? He’s said himself, he believes racism is a myth because he never has experienced it himself.

    2. Sorry but I’m not buying this BS coming from a rapper that disrespects the BLM movement and who blatantly supports a racist POS like Trump

      1. “Barack Obama is the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”—Biden

      2. Trump, the man beloved by AL Sharpton and Jesse Jackson 10 years ago, deemed racist for saying things like “Mexico sends over the worst. Rapists, gangsters, etc”. But the guy who says you aren’t black if you don’t vote for himself, or compared blacks to roaches, or says “black kids are just as bright as rich kids”, or that Obama was the first mainstream well spoken black man, like yeahhhh, let’s forget about people such as Fredrick Douglas, but oh, he doesn’t count, because he was a republican. Yall are fuckin brain dead lames, and yall should have to pay us for installing a puppet destroying our economy.

      3. The blm movement hasn’t done a single thing to actually help any black person, aside from a violent one, getting em out of jail to go hurt more black people. Blm took in hundreds of millions. Who did they help? Themselves! To lavish mansions. Blm is a Marxist movement. Only fools think it’s actually about blacks. Its about USING blacks to advance their own causes. Causes such as : no nuclear family, because black kids shouldn’t have both a mother and a father, right?

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