{"id":590583,"date":"2023-09-10T03:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lil-wayne-gets-his-flowers-from-nicki-minaj-as-he-wins-bmi-icon-award\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T03:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:00:22","slug":"lil-wayne-gets-his-flowers-from-nicki-minaj-as-he-wins-bmi-icon-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lil-wayne-gets-his-flowers-from-nicki-minaj-as-he-wins-bmi-icon-award\/","title":{"rendered":"#Lil Wayne Gets His Flowers From Nicki Minaj As He Wins BMI Icon Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lil Wayne has received his long-overdue flowers from the BMI Awards \u2014 and Nicki Minaj sent her love along, too.<\/p>\n

The Young Money head honcho received the performance rights organization\u2019s Icon Award on Wednesday (September 6), and he took the time to thank his family and friends after being honored by NLE Choppa and Big Freedia, amongst others.<\/p>\n

But the special part of the night came when the \u201cSuper Bass\u201d rapp<\/a>er came through via video conference to send her support to her good friend and former label boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere do I begin?\u201d she said. \u201cYou 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\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lil Wayne receives his flowers from Nicki Minaj as he wins BMI Icon awardhttps:\/\/t.co\/52WCdDsvQr<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/JnxZdRpWnW<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) September 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne have had quite the mutual admiration society going on for quite some time.<\/p>\n

Back in June, when the \u201cLollipop\u201d rapper appeared on former NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson\u2019s\u00a0All the Smoke<\/em>\u00a0podcast, Weezy was asked where he ranks Minaj in terms of all-time female MCs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAin\u2019t nobody fucking with Nicki,\u201d he declared with little hesitation. \u201cThey come after.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicki Minaj caught wind of his comments and posted clips from the interview to her Instagram while returning the compliment by calling Wayne the greatest rapper of all time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll give u a dollar if you can find a lie,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWhen the greatest rapper of all time believed & still believes in you. I sure did lean on your confidence & u sure were ALWAYS there.<\/p>\n

\u201cTil 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in his\u00a0All the Smoke<\/em> interview, Lil Wayne talked about discovering Nicki Minaj and the requirements he had to sign someone to Young Money. \u201cWe were looking for artists at the time and we set out to look for artists I wanted to meet,\u201d he said. \u201cI wanted a New York female [artist].<\/p>\n

\u201cI always tell \u2019em, 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\u00a0[Lil\u2019] Kim, you know what I mean?<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cAnd when I heard, Nicki was sounding like me. She was changing her voice up, I was like, \u2018Okay.\u2019 Like, I ain\u2019t never seen this. This rare. New York female artists, I had to keep telling \u2019em, \u2018Yo, don\u2019t do that, don\u2019t say that.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n