Reginae Carter, the daughter of rap legend Lil Wayne, might seem as though she has it all, but in a recent interview, she reveals how her father’s fame led to her being rejected from a school.
In the new interview with The Breakfast Club, Carter was asked by co-host Charlamagne Tha God if she remembered when she heard her first no. Carter revealed that she was only a young girl when she was told no by a private high school in Atlanta.
“Yeah, I remember my first no. It was actually—school,” Carter said. “I was trying to get into a private school, and by my father’s actions, and everybody—they was like, ‘no, we don’t want her in here.'”
Carter further explained that it had a lot to do with some of her father’s old behavior that led to her being rejected from the private school.
“That was when my dad had did something about the—it was something you know he used to do a lot, so he did something,” Carter said. “And they were like, ‘no, we don’t want her; she has too much.’ And it was a big school in Atlanta.”
DJ Envy would ask Carter if it was a college that she was trying to enroll in, in which she would tell him that it was indeed a high school and that she never got in.
Charlamagne would interject in the conversation, explaining that most people would believe that influence and wealth could give a person access to whatever they want, and that’s not always the case.
“That’s what most people don’t talk about. People think just cause you got money, just cause you have power,” Charlamagne said. “just cause you have influence—no, that doesn’t always give you access.”
During the interview, Carter, known for her sassy clap-backs and iconic one-liners, revealed that she has also slowed down on clapping back at negative comments, citing “growth” as the reason.
“I got older, one,” Carter said. “Two… I wanted to do stuff in life. I feel like the clap backs—you don’t know who’s in that room. You don’t know who you’re going to clap back to that you might need one day.”
Carter shared that her goal to become an actress also played a role in changing her approach to negative comments on social media.
“I want to act,” Carter said. “It’s so many directors—there’s so many people that might hear that I clap back at this person and might [be like], ‘Oh she hard to work with.’… So I just have to get my act together and I’m still working on myself still to this day.
Carter shred she had to humble herself because she started to hear no, despite her parents and her being a child of celebrities.
“You got to understand, I am this celebrity kid who’s grown up, and I had young parents. I’ve always heard the word yes; I never heard the word no until I got older to find like,” Carter said. “‘Okay, I don’t care who your parents are.’… In this acting world you really hear [no]. … I had to humble myself.”
Carter told Charlamagne that she has no desire to be like the other children of celebrities; she wants to be respectful and respected.
“It’s a lot of celebrity kids that go that way, and I don’t want to go that path,” Carter said. “I want to be respectful—I want people to respect me.”
