Earlier this month on February 2nd, Lil Wayne was honored at the Recording Academy Honors, which was presented by the Black Music Collective during GRAMMY 2023 Weekend in Los Angeles, California.

Inside the Hollywood Palladium, DJ Khaled presented Wayne with a Global Impact Award while Drake gave a funny speech in a pre-taped video.

Weezy also gave his own emotional speech after accepting the award were he recalled his mother Jacida Carter wanting him to have a kid as when he goes on long tours with Cash Money Records, she gets lonely.

“Where I’m from, we don’t get honored.”

At the event, Tunechi received a congratulations from Lil Kim and also enjoyed live performances from 2 Chainz (who performed “Duffle Bag Boy“), Swizz Beatz (who performed “Uproar“), and Tyga (who performed “A Milli“).

Due to not being fully happy with his award speech, Tune recorded another video afterwards were he thanked the GRAMMY Awards themselves, Dr. Dre, Missy Elliott, Sylvia Rhone, Deion Sanders, Drake, DJ Khaled, Swizz Beatz, 2 Chainz, Tyga, Busta Rhymes, Spliff Star, Will.I.Am, Rico Love, the fans, and more.

You can check it all out in the clips after the jump below. Congratulations once again to Mr. Carter on this amazing achievement!

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After partnering up with Wilson Sporting Goods for his Weezy Christmas event for kids last month, Lil Wayne also joined Wilson Football and Wilson Basketball for their debut episode of “4 Downs”.

In the video (watch below), Wayne picked his No. 1 quarterback (Aaron Rodgers), running back (Derrick Henry) and wide receiver (Justin Jefferson) to lead his fantasy team in the NFL. He shared his all-time starting 5 in the NBA too: Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Lebron James (who replaces Tim Duncan), and Shaquille O’Neal.

Tunechi also revealed what his most memorable NFL game is that he has seen live, which was when the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010. The reason was solely because of his mother Cita as we know Tune is a big Green Bay Packers fan!

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We have previously saw the start of this interview, and now we have another clip of 2 Chainz‘ sit-down conversation with Lil Wayne before their Amazon Music Live show on November 17th.

In this new video, Chainz recalls witnessing Wayne produce, engineer, rap, sing and play a live instrument all on one song, as well as going to sleep on the I Am Music tour while Weezy was working and waking up to him still recording.

When asking Tunechi where he gets his drive and motivation from, Tune answers his mother Jacida Carter. He also says that his mother taught him that when you love what you do, it will not seem like work at all and you will not know how to stop. Check it out below!

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Glasses Malone recently sat down with Bomb1st for a virtual interview, which you can watch down below.

Not long into their conversation, Malone opened up about signing to Cash Money Records and at the 1:05:00 mark, he shared an interesting story he has about Lil Wayne.

The Los Angeles rapper explained that while he was unwell on set of the “Haterz” video shoot, Weezy had asked him if he wanted to get his mother Jacida Carter, who is a former chef, to make him some soup.

He went on to add that Tunechi was the biggest artist in the world at this time and that speaks volumes if you know who Tune is as a person!

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In a sit-down interview with Emmanuel Acho for his mental health series “Uncomfortable Conversations“, Lil Wayne opens up all about his childhood and attempting to take his own life when he was 12-years-old.

Weezy speaks all about mental health, why he wanted to commit suicide, how the attempted suicide changed his mother Jacida Carter‘s ways with him, being lonely while being a megastar, and much more.

Also in their conversation (watch below), Tunechi reveals to Emmanuel that the lowest point of his career was when his record label would not let him release Tha Carter V, as well as how that made him feel!

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