Being born into hip-hop royalty comes with simple perks—nevertheless it additionally brings difficult expectations. With that in thoughts, Reginae Carter, daughter of Lil Wayne, and Azzy Milan, daughter of Fats Joe, opened up concerning the realities of rising up famous-adjacent in the course of the Dec. 11 episode of Carter’s Inheritor Time podcast, sharing how their fathers’ legacies have formed—and typically restricted—their very own paths.
Reginae Carter mentioned she was denied the chance to work with Disney due to her uncle, Mack Maine’s, rap lyrics about Miley Cyrus.
Reginae was the primary to get candid about navigating an business that always assumes she ought to comply with in her father’s footsteps. Due to Lil Wayne’s affect, many individuals count on her to rap, an assumption that has adopted her all through her profession and led to irritating moments behind the scenes.
“It’s various things–due to who my dad is, they’re going to place that on me,” Reginae mentioned. She recalled being blocked from a Disney alternative attributable to a controversial lyric from her uncle Mack Maine, who rapped, “In about three years, holla at me, Miley Cyrus,” on Younger Cash’s 2009 monitor “Each Lady.”
In keeping with Reginae, the affiliation alone was sufficient to shut doorways.
After laughing it off, Azzy added, “However you recognize Disney don’t play.”
That lyric later resurfaced in a bigger cultural reckoning. Across the identical time the track was launched, Maine posted a number of tweets about Cyrus, together with one now-deleted message that learn:
“Glad bdayyyyyyyy 2 my babygirl Miley Cyrus… 17yrs previous…1 extra yr…luv.”
One other publish, a 12 months later (notably the day earlier than the singer’s 18th birthday), learn:
“Glad bday to my babygirl, my pyt Miley Cyrus…holla at me baby!!! It’s all luv ova right here…ymcmb.”
Years later, these posts resurfaced in 2024, when Maine defended Drake, a former Younger Cash member, throughout Drake’s public feud with Kendrick Lamar.
Maine known as himself chiming in on the meat by posting just a few emojis and retweeting Drake’s “The Coronary heart Half 6,” a track by which the Toronto native denied Lamar’s declare that he appreciated relationship underage ladies. However the response backfired. Followers rapidly revived the previous tweets from 2009, with one calling OVO a “grooming manufacturing unit,” and one other urging Maine to remain out of the controversy altogether. Yikes.
Azzy Milan mentioned she’s additionally handled music assumptions being the daughter of Fats Joe.
Azzy Milan shared that she’s handled related assumptions because the daughter of Fats Joe, notably the expectation that she ought to make music.
“Like, are you might be you going to rap?” she recalled individuals asking. “No. Why would I rap? I can’t even hit no notes, no nothing. That’s simply wild.”
As an alternative, Azzy has carved out her personal lane in trend, constructing a profession as an influencer who collaborates with main manufacturers and showcases daring styling concepts by means of social media. She credit her confidence to the massive assist of her mother and father, Fats Joe and Lorena Cartagena.
“I really feel like I used to be at all times overly assured,” she instructed Carter. “My mother and father have been additionally very supportive of my total life and have been at all times giving me reassurance, and that at all times helps.”
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