An Art Student Helped Pay Her University Fees By Making A Custom Necklace For Lil Wayne

Since his 36th birthday, Lil Wayne has been spotted rocking a new custom necklace with an 18-carat yellow-gold pendant in the shape of his face on it.

It turns out that this pendant, which features 2 white diamonds for Wayne‘s tear drop face tattoos, was gifted to him for his birthday from a close friend. You can get a better look at the chain after the jump below.

A 29-year-old art student named Joy Bonfield-Colombara was struggling to pay her £9,500.00-a-year course at the Royal College Of Art university in London, England and considered on dropping out until she received an e-mail from one of Weezy‘s close friends.

Joy revealed to the BBC that she had 2 – 3 weeks to create the pendant in time for Tunechi‘s birthday and after selling it to Tune‘s friend for “thousands” of pounds, the money she earned was used to help pay a “chunk” of her course fees so she could carry on at university! What are your thoughts on the piece?

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Some process photos from when I was hand-carving, casting, filing, soldering and polishing the ‘An Icon’ piece for @liltunechi commissioned by a great friend of his. . . . #joybc #liltunechi #icon #thecarterv #uproar #precioustears #dontcry

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‘An Icon’: Bespoke Hand carved Portrait of Lil Wayne in solid 18ct yellow gold with white gold set diamond tears. Joy BC 2018. One of a kind piece commissioned to mark Wayne’s birthday and release of Tha Carter V. Such an honour to make this piece for the one and only @liltunechi What’s more, is that this commissioned piece meant I could stay in school. Forever greatful. ‘Can’t control the tears: let them drop and roll. DONT CRY FOR ME: (those are tears of joy)’ ? ? #precioustears #dontcry it’s the ? #carterV #lilwayne #tearsofjoy ?#uproar #gold #diamond #tears #tearsofjoy #bespoke #portrait . Photo by @pictureriley . .

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DETAILS from: ‘An Icon’: Bespoke Hand carved Portrait of Lil Wayne in solid 18ct yellow gold with white gold set diamond tears. Joy BC 2018. One of a kind piece commissioned to mark Wayne’s birthday and release of Tha Carter V. Such an honour to make this piece for the one and only @liltunechi What’s more, is that this commissioned piece meant I could stay in school. Forever greatful. ‘Can’t control the tears: let them drop and roll. DONT CRY FOR ME: (those are tears of joy)’ ? ? #precioustears #dontcry it’s the ? #carterV #lilwayne #tearsofjoy ?#uproar #gold #diamond #tears #tearsofjoy #bespoke #portrait . Photo by @pictureriley . .

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DETAILS from: ‘An Icon’: Bespoke Hand carved Portrait of Lil Wayne in solid 18ct yellow gold with white gold set diamond tears. Joy BC 2018. One of a kind piece commissioned to mark Wayne’s birthday and release of Tha Carter V. Such an honour to make this piece for the one and only @liltunechi . ‘Can’t control the tears: let them drop and roll. DONT CRY FOR ME: (those are tears of joy)’ ? ? #precioustears #dontcry it’s the ? #carterV #lilwayne #tearsofjoy ?#uproar #gold #diamond #tears #tearsofjoy #bespoke #portrait . Photo by @pictureriley

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