Rapper Lil Wayne Expresses Shock At Bizarre Wax Museum Statue, Dwayne Johnson Gets His Wax Statue Redone

Rapper Lil Wayne tweeted his disapproval of a wax figure of himself that has been on display at the Hollywood Wax Museum at Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, since last summer.

It shows Wayne’s tattoo-covered chest, a white polka dotted shirt sagging around his arms and red and blue plaid pants.

Wayne saw an image of the statue on the social media app X.

User @rahsh33m posted, “they did Lil Wayne FILTHYYYY.”

This image soon went viral.

The rapper reacted by tweeting: “Sorry wax museum but dat s— ain’t me! You tried tho and I appreciate the effort.”

The viral sensation came just one day after Dwayne Johnson responded to the negative comments from fans regarding his own wax figure, which had been unveiled at the Grévin Museum in Paris in early October.

The Moana star shared a reel on Instagram originally posted by the comedian, James Andre Jefferson Jr., in which he criticized the artist behind the figure, Stéphane Barret, for giving the statue a lighter skin tone than Johnson has.

Johnson has a black Nova Scotian father and Samoan mother.

In his post of the shared reel, Johnson responded to the backlash from Jefferson, as well as that of other angry fans. “I knew my boy @jamesjeffersonj had this Rock wax statue in his roasting crosshairs.”

The actor mentioned an update on what would happen to the figure. “For the record, I’m going to have my team reach out to our friends at the Grevin Museum in Paris, France, so we can work at ‘updating’ my wax figure here with some important details and improvements – starting with my skin color.”

The Museum responded to the backlash Monday via Instagram Story: “Our artists are already working on improving the waxwork of Dwayne Johnson. Your feedback is always valuable to us.”

A news release written by the museum confirmed several limitations Barret faced. “After Dwayne Johnson was chosen at the first edition of the Grévin Awards, sculptor Stéphane Barret had to rely on photos and videos to create a statue as close to reality as possible, without the presence of the international star, the teams went to gyms in the hope of finding a man who matched The Rock’s extraordinary measurements.

“The star’s Samoan tattoos took the painters 10 days of painstaking work and a lot of research,” they added. “The eyes of Dwayne Johnson’s waxwork had to be redone three times to avoid too dark a tint making the star’s face too hard and erasing its warm aspect.”

This artist mentioned that they found it most challenging to replicate Johnson’s smirk. “We worked on his face and eyes several times, because the most complicated thing about realism is getting the statue to come alive from the visitors’ perspective,” they added.

There has been no word from the artist who sculpted Wayne’s statue on “improvements” to his figure.