An airport nightmare turned into a dream for Lil Wayne.<\/p>\n
The rapper struggled to get through customs thanks to his incredibly expensive jewelry collection.<\/p>\n
He was about to give up when a prince came to his rescue.<\/p>\n
And he did more than just wave him through the airport gates.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Lil Wayne is selling his waterfront Miami Beach mansion for $29.5 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Flying private has many perks, but skipping the customs queue isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n Lil Wayne took his private jet to Saudi Arabia a few years ago and ran into some trouble.<\/p>\n After getting off the plane, he put his bags through the x-ray machine.<\/p>\n The only trouble was they contained over $25,000 worth of jewelry, which should have been declared beforehand.<\/p>\n So Lil Wayne did what any celebrity would do in the situation: he got back on his private plane<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI ain\u2019t coming back; I don\u2019t need to be here,\u201d he told the airport officials.<\/p>\n <\/a>Megan Elice Meadows \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/a>Michael Williams \/ Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n While he cooled his jets on his jet he received a message sent on behalf of Mohamed Bin Salman.<\/p>\n It seems the Crown Prince<\/a> must be a Wayniac, because he was very unhappy to hear about what had gone down at the airport.<\/p>\n He apologized profusely, and arranged for the rapper to move through customs without any further issues.<\/p>\n Once he arrived at his hotel room he found the Crown Prince himself waiting to meet him with a gift.<\/p>\n He had brought him a watch worth the value of the jewelry that had caused the trouble in the first place.<\/p>\n It was a Franck Muller<\/a> watch, and Lil Wayne reckons it was worth way more than $25,000.<\/p>\n These timepieces are found in the watch collections of the likes of Ronaldo<\/a> and can cost anywhere between $5,500 and hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s unlikely the Crown Prince would have chosen the cheapest option.<\/p>\n <\/a>Franck Muller<\/a>Mos \/ Unsplash<\/p>\n That\u2019s not where this gift-giving session ended.<\/p>\n As the prince turned to leave the hotel room he asked whether the rapper preferred Lamborghini or Ferrari.<\/p>\n A few weeks later, a black Lamborghini Urus appeared outside his house.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought it was a general question,\u201d said Lil Wayne.<\/p>\n \u201cI thought he was asking me which one is better.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Lil Wayne was gifted Lamborghini and $25k watch from Saudi Royal Prince<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An airport nightmare turned into a dream for Lil Wayne. The rapper struggled to get through customs thanks to his incredibly expensive jewelry collection. He was about to give up when a prince came to his rescue. And he did more than just wave him through the airport gates. READ MORE: Lil Wayne is selling …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":41498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}