Lil Wayne and Kodak Black showed their gratitude to former President Donald Trump after he included them in his pardoning spree Jan. 19 in one of his final acts before leaving office.
Lil Wayne (real name Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.) pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a loaded weapon on a private jet while traveling to Miami in December 2020. Carter is a convicted felon, stemming from a gun charge in 2007, which meant he was looking at 10 years in prison at his Jan. 28 sentencing.
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Wayne endorsed Trump for president and co-signed his "Platinum Plan" for the Black community, which led skeptics to believe it was all a tactic to receive a pardon. But Bradford Cohen, the lawyer who helped set up Trump's meeting with Lil Wayne, denied the speculation in an interview with The New York Times.