Lil Wayne is pushing again on claims that he misused pandemic aid funds obtained from the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant on non-public jets, designer clothes, and lavish events. The rapper appeared perplexed when questioned concerning the allegations, and he merely mentioned, “I do not know what meaning.”
In a Rolling Stone interview, his supervisor Fabian Marasciullo, immediately denied the claims and acknowledged, “He ain’t acquired nothing to do with none of that s*it. It is not the way in which his cash comes and goes.” He added that Wayne’s accounts are “audited and clear.”
A Enterprise Insider report, revealed in 2023, alleged that the rapper acquired almost 9 million USD underneath the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant, a government-funded program meant to assist impartial venues and humanities teams struggling through the pandemic.
In accordance with the report, Wayne solely paid 327,000 USD to contractors engaged on excursions and used the remainder on luxurious inns, designer garments, lavish events, and holidays. The report additionally talked about a controversial textual content message he despatched to reporter Katherine Lengthy after she contacted him for touch upon the identical story.
Within the new interview, the rapper did not deny sending the s*xually express textual content however defended his tone. “Any feminine that textual content me goes to most likely obtain a s*xual remark,” he mentioned. “My telephone is a private telephone, so should you even acquired my quantity, meaning you went out your manner and doing an excessive amount of, and should you texted me and I ship you one thing you do not like, then s*ck my d*ck.”
The 2023 report additionally claimed that Chris Brown obtained 10 million USD for his firm, CBE Touring, and he spent almost 80,000 USD on his lavish party and paid 5.1 million USD to himself. Marshmello was additionally named within the report.
Wayne is presently busy selling his extremely anticipated album, Tha Carter VI, set to launch on June 6. The undertaking marks his return to the hip-hop scene. For the album, the rapper has collaborated with Wyclef Jean, MGK, Miley Cyrus, and opera legend Andrea Bocelli. The collaboration additionally features a New Orleans supergroup known as The Gumbo, that includes Jon Batiste, PJ Morton, Trombone Shorty, and Ledisi.
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