Rapper Lil Wayne performs onstage during the 2008 BET Awards.
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Rapper Lil Wayne performs onstage during the 2008 BET Awards.
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Rappers Lil Wayne, left, and Lil Jon perform during the seventh annual BMI Urban Awards held at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino on September 7, 2007, in Las Vegas.
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Rappers Lil Wayne, left, and Lil Jon perform during the seventh annual BMI Urban Awards held at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino on September 7, 2007, in Las Vegas.
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Rapper Lil Wayne, left, congratulates Kanye West on his Best Male Hip Hop Artist win onstage during the 2008 BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on June 24, 2008, in Los Angeles.
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Rapper Lil Wayne, left, congratulates Kanye West on his Best Male Hip Hop Artist win onstage during the 2008 BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on June 24, 2008, in Los Angeles.
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Rapper Lil Wayne performs onstage during his "I Am Music" Tour at the Gibson Amphitheater on March 29, 2009, in Universal City, California.
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Rapper Lil Wayne performs onstage during his "I Am Music" Tour at the Gibson Amphitheater on March 29, 2009, in Universal City, California.
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Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj perform during Minaj's Pink Friday Tour at Roseland in New York on August 14, 2012,
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Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj perform during Minaj's Pink Friday Tour at Roseland in New York on August 14, 2012,
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Lil Wayne and Baby AKA Birdman watch the New Jersey Nets play the Miami Heat during the NBA playoffs in 2006.
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Lil Wayne and Baby AKA Birdman watch the New Jersey Nets play the Miami Heat during the NBA playoffs in 2006.
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Lil Wayne sings "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch as the San Francisco Giants took on the St. Louis Cardinals during the National League Championship Series in 2012.
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Lil Wayne sings "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch as the San Francisco Giants took on the St. Louis Cardinals during the National League Championship Series in 2012.
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Singer Chris Brown, left, and Lil Wayne embrace onstage during the 2011 BET Awards.
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Singer Chris Brown, left, and Lil Wayne embrace onstage during the 2011 BET Awards.
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Lil Wayne and hip-hop artist Drake, left, sit courtside during the 2012 NBA All-Star Game.
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Lil Wayne and hip-hop artist Drake, left, sit courtside during the 2012 NBA All-Star Game.
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Lil Wayne performs onstage during the Hot 97 Summer Jam in 2007.
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Lil Wayne performs onstage during the Hot 97 Summer Jam in 2007.
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