All About History on Instagram: "Lil Wayne - born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. - has explained why he dropped the "D" and goes simply by Wayne: it was personal and symbolic. In a 2009 interview with CBS journalist Katie Couric, he said he removed the D because he's a junior named after his father, but his biological dad was not part of his life and never had been. Wayne said straightforwardly that since his father "is living and he's not in my life," he didn't want to go by Dwayne anymore he prefer