He has been famous more than half his life - this fall, he’ll turn 36, but his recording career is already old enough to drink, Wayne having risen to fame as one-fourth of the Hot Boys on Cash Money Records when he was barely a teenager. Wayne can perhaps be forgiven for the lack of wedding etiquette his life has never known convention. She’s going to be speaking for somebody some day.” “But his daughter had a speech, the bride’s mom had a speech, his mom had a speech, and all three of them was awesome. “Everybody was like, ‘You got a speech?’ I didn’t know I was supposed to have one!” he says, laughing as he sparks a Backwoods blunt. Wayne was the best man at the wedding - though he showed up slightly unprepared.īest man Wayne helped groom 2 Chainz prepare for his wedding ceremony in August, joined by 2 Chainz’s son Halo and friend Goat (right). Chainz, who goes back 15 years with Wayne, is part of a tight inner circle that includes Swizz Beatz, DJ Khaled and Wayne’s longtime right-hand man Mack Maine, who grew up with Wayne and serves as president of his label imprint Young Money Entertainment.
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Three days earlier, Wayne was across the Biscayne Bay at the Versace Mansion on Ocean Drive, his full suit and bow tie accented by the same green Vans, as 2 Chainz married longtime girlfriend Kesha Ward. Which is just fine with the low-key Lil Wayne, who is seated on a leather couch in the second-floor recording studio, wearing shorts and a T-shirt, a Thrasher hat over his scattered blond dreads and white socks pulled up high over lime green Vans classics. It’s late on a sleepy Tuesday night in August, past 10 p.m., and the building is almost completely empty. Inside, the building’s a sort of teenage Neverland, complete with a slot machine, foosball, a one-lane bowling alley and, down a short hallway, a massive indoor skate park.