Lil Wayne Celebrates 27th, Retrospective on Proliferation of Music, Babies.
Rapper Lil Wayne celebrated his birthday in style yesterday. He flew to Minnesota to watch his favorite football player Brett Favre, who won the game for his team in the final seconds. He got a million-dollar, diamond-encrusted watch. His cake was surrounded by diamonds. Life is good for the poor kid from New Orleans.
"Da Ladiez Can't Resist My Charm."
He has accomplished a lot in his relatively short life thus far. He has put out seven CDs, a number of mixtapes, and has collaborated with the likes of Akon, The Game, Chris Brown, Wyclef Jean, Jay-Z, Mariah Carey, Kanye West, and Kid Rock. He has found time to work in a few films, some TV shows, and a couple of ads. Considering his–ahem–active social life, it’s a miracle he has a spare moment to work.
He has also found time to make babies. Four of them. With four different women. The first bundle of joy came along when he was 15. He and his high school girlfriend set the tone for his life: The Proliferation of Lil Wayne. Whether by music or by DNA, Lil Wayne is about to take over. His second child came in 2008, and the mother’s name remains a mystery. Then the man known as ‘Weezy’ did the next logical thing: he got two women pregnant within months of each other. On September 9, he had a little boy with “actress” Lauren London, who is mostly known for her ability to ‘drop it like it’s hot’ in rap videos. She dropped Lennox Samuel Ari less than three months before Lil Wayne’s next project is due. His latest babymama is singer Nivea, who is the only one who has scored an engagement ring from rap’s Most Fertile Man.
He admitted to Katie Couric that he likes to smoke weed, but that he is no longer addicted to the “purple drank”, which is cough syrup with codeine. Evidently, he once was. Maybe that’s how he lulls attractive women into becoming his concubines. Or perhaps it is his lyrical musings. What woman can possibly resist the line: “A b**ch is a female dog, and they say a dog is a man’s best friend”? That was from one of his love songs. An emotional shout-out to all the ladies.
Who among us is not moved?
Lil Wayne has one CD, Rebirth, being released in November, and another coming out in 2010. He is also collaborating with alt-pop group Weezer, an odd pairing if ever there was one. Somehow the idea of ultra-sensitive Rivers Cuomo–and his thick glasses–on the same stage as Weezy with his dreads, tats, and noticeable lack of underwear doesn’t add up.
Happy birthday, Lil Wayne. And for heaven’s sake, try to enjoy yourself.