Wax figures are undeniably a weird phenomenon but, for the famous people who make it into wax, they are ostensibly a compliment. It means you have risen to such a level in your respective field that a tourist attraction wants to capture your image and that people will pay just to see a version of you. Unfortunately, the wax works don't always come off entirely to the satisfaction of the celebs they are meant to honor, though. Case in point, Lil Wayne, who has dimissed a new wax work of himself revealed earlier this month.
When the Hollywood Wax Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee revealed their Wayne figure it was mocked online, becoming the subject of memes and jokes in the replies under the museum's social media posts. Their crime, in essence? Making a wax work that looks nothing like Wayne. However, things got worse for them when the rapper himself chimed in. "Sorry wax museum but dat shit ain’t me! You tried tho and I appreciate the effort," he wrote on Twitter.
Sorry wax museum but dat shit ain’t me!
— Lil Wayne WEEZY F (@LilTunechi) October 23, 2023
You tried tho and I appreciate the effort.
There's been a lot of "sorry wax museum" going around recently, with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson contacting a company in Paris after they revealed a likeness of him that, bizarrely, rendered him as a white man. Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker's new wax work at Madame Tussauds in Las Vegas, is, however, eerily accurate.
Last week Lil Wayne announced details of a new joint album with 2 Chainz. Welcome 2 ColleGrove will be released on November 17 and features the single "Presha." It arrives seven years after the duo's 2016 album ColleGrove.
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