Lil Wayne's Most Outrageous Style Moments

Lil Wayne has led a storied rap career that many would kill to have even a fraction of. He also, as is the mostly general consensus, fell off of that previously upward path somewhere around 2010. Around that same time, he also grabbed his Trukfit deck and did an ollie right off the fashion cliff, rocking one wild outfit after another. Much in the way that he's back on his rap game, he's also cleaned up his fashion fails considerably if not completely. But with Tha Carter V fast approaching, now's as good a time as any to revisit that strange period where he was all about wild prints, boots most females would turn down and other weird shit, while continuing to bag more women than we could ever fathom. This is Wayne's world, after all, we're just living in it and judging him uselessly. From the memorable to the most WTF, these are Lil Wayne's Most Outrageous Style Moments.

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Where: "Y.U. Mad" video, 2011

Salute the Weezle's troll game. Nicki's hook on this underrated Birdman cut is designed to poke fun at YMCMB's haters but Dwayne takes it a step farther. One of the richest artists in the game, seen here rocking an emoji on his belt buckle, a bunch of bracelets you get at those 25 cent machines at the supermarket, jorts, and a skinned pelt of that red fur thing from Looney Tunes. You mad? He hopes you are.

Where: "No Worries" video, 2012

Wayne and Detail were going for a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas inspired anti-flourish here. Mission fucking achieved off of the Jeremy Scott adidas alone.

Where: "The Motto" video, 2012

Wayne really went through a phase usually reserved for like 8 year-olds, when your parents start trusting you to dress yourself and you just decide to pick the wildest shit possible to both assert your identity and be an asshole. There's really no other justification for strapping some green sock'em boppers to your feet, b.

Where: Outside of the Staples Center, 2011

Weezy fulfills his childhood dream of being an astronaut while flaunting the fact that he got a woman like Dhea to accept his proposal in lieu of fuckshit like this.

Where: VMAs, 2012

Wayne premiered "No Worries" alongside 2 Chainz at the 2012 VMAs, and as if to get his point across, dude came out looking like Donnie Thornberry. Makes sense why Wayne would use the old-world Nickelodeon god as a style influence though. Wild hair, frenetic speech patterns often confused for gibberish, so energetic that you'd be right to suspect several drug influences—they have a lot in common.

Where: Highland Center, 2012

The only thing left to do after breaking the Guinness record on pussy references is drape up in that kitty print, amirite?

Where: VMAs, 2011

These were women's leggings. That is all.

Where: Trukstop Community Skatepark, New Orleans 2012

Intergalactic visitor pose because the I Am Not a Human Being promo never ends.

Where: VMA rehearsal, 2011

Just in case you thought Wayne was fugazi about this skater life, he started swagger-jacking the likes of Tyler, the Creator so we'd know it's real.

Where: Courtside, 2012

Let this be the image that comes to mind from now on every time you hear Lil Wayne rap about gang affiliations and/or firing the Nina.

Where: Courtside at an NBA game, 2012

Drake bites his nails apprehensively: "Tune, fam, did you have to go with the 3-D shades? I look normal but the blogs are gonna kill us both tomorrow!"

Wayne's headphones have been on the whole time; Drake can't tell he's rapping along to that key "Stuntin' Like My Daddy" line with a mouthful of popcorn: "Show me my opponent!"

Mack Maine does what he gets paid handsomely to do: keep his head down and have no opinion.

Just your typical courtside with YMCMB scene.

Where: VMA promo, 2011

Cool jorts dude, did you write on the leg because you've been out of tat space since 2009?