{"id":5091,"date":"2008-10-22T00:25:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T00:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2008\/10\/22\/lil-wayne-lyricist-of-year\/"},"modified":"2008-10-22T00:25:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T00:25:40","slug":"lil-wayne-lyricist-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2008\/10\/22\/lil-wayne-lyricist-of-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne lyricist of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/>Lil Wayne hit it big at the BET Hip-Hop Awards on Saturday in Atlanta, winning Lyricist of the Year and the Alltel Wireless People&#8217;s Champ.<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Lollipop&#8221; rapper, who received 12 nominations, also beat out Jay-Z, DJ Khaled, T.I. and Kanye West to win the MVP of the Year award, which he dedicated to his daughter. In his acceptance speech, the 26-year-old New Orleans native revealed that he&#8217;s going to be a dad again soon. &#8220;I got a son dropping any day, pray for me,&#8221; he told the crowd.<br \/>\nAlso honored at the ceremony was Def Jam creator Russell Simmons, who received the &#8220;I Am Hip-Hop&#8221; Icon award from LL Cool J for being a philanthropic inspiration to other artists.<br \/>\nT.I. actually made it to this year&#8217;s show after being arrested last year just hours before he was scheduled to headline the ceremony. The &#8220;Live Your Life&#8221; rapper pleaded guilty earlier this year to trying to purchase semi-automatic guns and silencers, and is scheduled to be sentenced in March.<br \/>\nThe awards show will air Oct. 23 on BET and feature performances by Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, Bow Wow, MC Lyte, Yo-Yo, Salt-N-Pepa, Ludacris, Busta Rhymes, Big Boi, Fat Joe, Birdman, Rick Ross and Young Jeezy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lil Wayne hit it big at the BET Hip-Hop Awards on Saturday in Atlanta, winning Lyricist of the Year and the Alltel Wireless People&#8217;s Champ. The &#8220;Lollipop&#8221; rapper, who received 12 nominations, also beat out Jay-Z, DJ Khaled, T.I. and Kanye West to win the MVP of the Year award, which he dedicated to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}