Reginae Carter Says Lil Wayne's Lyrics Got Her Rejected From Atlanta Private Schools
Reginae Carter says some of Atlanta's biggest private schools rejected her because of her father Lil Wayne's lyrics.
On a recent episode of her Heir Time podcast featuring Nas's daughter Destiny Jones, Reginae, 26, opened up about her school experience growing up. She said her family applied her to top private schools in Atlanta. Many of them said no.
"I went to Christian school almost my whole life," Carter said around the 5:37 mark of the episode, Complex reported. "A lot of the private schools I wanted to go to, I'm not going to say the names, were blocking me because of what my dad was doing a lot of the time, because of the music he was making."
"It was a lot of big schools in Atlanta, the biggest, that rejected me," she added. "They rejected a lot of celebrity kids."
Reginae also admitted she sees both sides. "I get it, to a certain extent," she said.
Lil Wayne's catalog at the height of his career included songs like "A Milli," "Lollipop," and "Mrs. Officer." His Tha Carter series helped define explicit hip hop lyrics for an entire generation. For private Christian schools focused on conservative values, Wayne's content was a hard sell.
Reginae's brothers had their own school stories. On a previous Heir Time episode, her brother Kameron Carter, Wayne's son with Lauren London, said his earliest memory of school was hearing kids whisper, "Oh, that's Wayne's son." He said he didn't like the attention.
"At a young age, I didn't like it because I wanted to know who would be my real friend," Kameron said. "I didn't care about all the attention. I wanted to actually garner real relationships."
Reginae's response was very different. "I loved it," she said. "I was like, 'Yes, I am Lil Wayne's daughter. Yes, everybody get the cameras out.'"
Wayne's eldest son, Dwayne, attended private school and called the experience "terrible." He said other parents were always trying to ask him questions about his famous father. "The funniest part is the people who started to care less was when I went to public school," he said.
