Even Lil Wayne approved of Hillary Clinton's DNC acceptance speech
We all remember Hillary Clinton's painful dabbing, the criticized modification of her Twitter logo into a kinara at the start of Kwanzaa and those ill-timed, albeit honest, remarks about "hot sauce in her bag."
On Thursday night, as the former first lady and secretary of state delivered an oratory on her watershed victory as the first woman to accept the nomination for a major political party, she again evoked black culture.
But this time was different. This time, Clinton didn't appear to be straining to make her familiarity with the black community and our cultural diet apparent. Instead, the embattled politician seemed to just be. And, in relaxing her tune, Clinton had viewers tuning in closer, particularly to one line, which harked back to the best of Lil Wayne.
Tonight, we’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for President.
Standing here as my mother’s daughter, and my daughter’s mother, I’m so happy this day has come.
Happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between.
Happy for boys and men, too – because when any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone. When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit.
The subtle play on words immediately took Weezy fans back to the prolific rapper's Da Drought 3 track, Sky's the Limit, his classic 2009 mixtape, No Ceilings, and the second interlude from the same mixtape in which Wayne declares, "Again, this is No Ceilings. I would love for you to look up into the building and understand that there is no ceilings. There's only the sky, and the sky is the limit. Christopher Wallace said that."
The reference was much appreciated.
And for those curious about Lil Wayne's reaction? "He ain't got no worries."