{"id":96958,"date":"2025-08-25T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96958\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:05:09","slug":"lil-wayne-gives-cross-chain-to-disabled-fan-forced-to-wait-17-years-to-see-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/96958\/","title":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne Gives Cross, Chain to Disabled Fan Forced to Wait 17 Years to See Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Lil Wayne<br \/>\n                          Chaining Day For Dedicated Fan!!!<br \/>\n                          17 Yrs After Medical Crisis<\/p>\n<p>\n                        Published August 25, 2025 2:24 PM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250825_cbc8a2f6578b4f8181627332c39be9c3\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1494fbee-e508-4b07-972b-ff8791d173aa\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cbc8a2f6578b4f8181627332c39be9c3_md.jpg\" alt=\"lil wayne meets with fans tmz wm 2\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/lil-wayne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Wayne<\/a>\u2019s Chicago concert Sunday night ended with a heartfelt moment with a longtime fan &#8230; who fulfilled a 17-year-old wish to meet her GOAT rapper!!!<\/p>\n<p>TMZ Hip Hop obtained photos of Wayne backstage at Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre having an emotional meet-and-greet with Sade Stephens and her mother, Andrea Carson.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250825_be0f55e3d7b2472b84087d2b82f2f89c\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1494fbee-e508-4b07-972b-ff8791d173aa\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/be0f55e3d7b2472b84087d2b82f2f89c_md.jpg\" alt=\"lil wayne meets with fans tmz wm\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to taking photos and chatting it up with Sade and Andrea, Wayne took off his cross pendant and chain, and gave it to Sade.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea called the moment one of the best days of her daughter&#8217;s life, which was forever changed 17 years ago &#8230; just as she was expecting to see Wayne in concert for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the skinny &#8212; back in 2008, Sade was a senior in high school looking forward to graduation, with a love for dancing and music.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250825_f87b9bb3b78f4a189fed1b958faa743a\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:1494fbee-e508-4b07-972b-ff8791d173aa\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/f87b9bb3b78f4a189fed1b958faa743a_md.jpg\" alt=\"lil wayne meets with fans tmz wm 3\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, on December 17th that year &#8212; while on the way to a roller skating rink &#8212; Sade told her mother how excited she was about getting tix to see Wayne and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/keyshia-cole\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/keyshia-cole\/\">Keyshia Cole<\/a> in concert &#8212; but, that night, Sade suffered a cardiac arrest while skating.<\/p>\n<p>Since the near-fatal incident, Sade&#8217;s been non-verbal and wheelchair-bound, but is still aware of her surroundings and still loves music &#8230; especially Tunechi&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Andrea knew someone who was able to contact Young Money Records honcho Mack Maine &#8230; and we&#8217;re told he set up the heartwarming meet and greet with Wayne.<\/p>\n<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0d39d0958b9c4cc790792d9b473bd156_md.jpg\" alt=\"080525_juvenile_rapper_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    TMZ.com<\/p>\n<p>Wayne&#8217;s other fans still have plenty of chances to see him live &#8230; his Tha Carter VI Tour runs through October, and Lil WeezyAna Fest goes down in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lil Wayne Chaining Day For Dedicated Fan!!! 17 Yrs After Medical Crisis Published August 25, 2025 2:24 PM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[879,49,48,75,12891,341,44,12892],"class_list":{"0":"post-96958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hip-hop","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-tmz-hip-hop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}