Lil Wayne has acquired his long-overdue flowers from the BMI Awards — and Nicki Minaj despatched her love alongside, too.
The Young Money head honcho acquired the efficiency rights group’s Icon Award on Wednesday (September 6), and he took the time to thank his household and pals after being honored by NLE Choppa and Big Freedia, amongst others.
But the particular a part of the night time got here when the “Super Bass” rapper got here by way of through video convention to ship her assist to her good pal and former label boss.
“Where do I begin?” she mentioned. “You know what, I just wanna say, I so greatly appreciate your contributions that you have made to the culture of rap. Thank you for all of the inspiring things you’ve said to me personally to make me want to go super-duper hard. Thank you for just always being the genius you are and the leader you are.”
Lil Wayne receives his flowers from Nicki Minaj as he wins BMI Icon awardhttps://t.co/52WCdDsvQrpic.twitter.com/JnxZdRpWnW
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) September 9, 2023
Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne have had fairly the mutual admiration society occurring for fairly a while.
Back in June, when the “Lollipop” rapper appeared on former NBA gamers Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s All the Smoke podcast, Weezy was requested the place he ranks Minaj when it comes to all-time feminine MCs.
“Ain’t nobody fucking with Nicki,” he declared with little hesitation. “They come after.”
Nicki Minaj caught wind of his feedback and posted clips from the interview to her Instagram whereas returning the praise by calling Wayne the best rapper of all time.
“I’ll give u a dollar if you can find a lie,” she wrote. “When the greatest rapper of all time believed & still believes in you. I sure did lean on your confidence & u sure were ALWAYS there.
“Til this day- when I send you smthng you send a verse bakk. @liltunechi we love you so much. We thank you so much. Long live the BAR! Bar for Bar. No pun intended #MulaBaaabay!!! @mackmaine4president.”
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Elsewhere in his All the Smoke interview, Lil Wayne talked about discovering Nicki Minaj and the necessities he needed to signal somebody to Young Money. “We were looking for artists at the time and we set out to look for artists I wanted to meet,” he mentioned. “I wanted a New York female [artist].
“I always tell ’em, I wanted to make sure she had two things, she was missing, lacking two things: Do not sound like Foxy [Brown], do not sound like [Lil’] Kim, you know what I mean?
He continued: “And when I heard, Nicki was sounding like me. She was changing her voice up, I was like, ‘Okay.’ Like, I ain’t never seen this. This rare. New York female artists, I had to keep telling ’em, ‘Yo, don’t do that, don’t say that.’”
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