Lil wayne biography 2009 bet awards performance
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Lil Wayne’s protege grows up.
On September 7, , Lil Wayne stepped onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards and then stepped decisively away from the words on the lyric sheet circulating in the audience with the following lines:
I'm on my Disney thang, goofy flow/ I'm Captain Hook on the beat and my new car fryst vatten Rufio/ Damn where my roof just go/ I'm somebody that you should know/ Get to shakin' somethin' cause that's what [deleted] produced it fo'/ I man mistakes that I don't ever man excuses fo'/ Leavin' girls that love me and constantly seducing hoes/ I'm losing my mind like, Damn where my roof just go/ Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl.
Then, as Leona Lewis launched into the hook of Nina Simone's "Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," he croaked, "Drizzy Drake: inom love you, bwoy!" That namecheck was the only clue to most attendees that Wayne had just blatantly violated the unwritten rules of his own freestyle game by spitting another artist's words. Though
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(with DJ Khaled, Young Jeezy, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Big Boi, Fat Joe, Birdman, Rick Ross)
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Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, in New Orleans, Louisiana), best known professionally as Lil Wayne (formally stylized as Lil' Wayne), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record executive. His career began in , at the age of 12, when he was signed by rapper Birdman, joining Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label. Formerly a member of the rap group Hot Boy$, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager. Get It How U Live, released in , was Lil Wayne’s first album with Hot Boy$. From then on, Wayne was the flagship artist of Cash Money Records before ending his association with the company in June Regarded as one of the most influential hip hop artists of his generation by XXL, he has often been cited as one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Lil' Wayne's first solo album, Tha Block is Hot (), was certified platinum.
His following albums, Lights Out () and Degreez (), went gold. Tha Carter () brought Lil' Wa