The Atlanta rapper, whose name partly adorns an $11.6 million tunnel-boring machine being used to create a reservoir for Atlanta, received a proclamation Monday from the Atlanta City Council, which named the day in his honor.

Render was honored for his music, his entrepreneurship as owner of his burgeoning barber chain dubbed Swag Shop and for informally being an ambassador for Atlanta from TV appearances, including CNN and HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher.”