He also provided specific, individual responses to some of the fan mail that flooded his cell and became, he said, a source of cheer behind bars. The rapper later acknowledged the misstep on his Weezythanxyou site, where his associates typed up and posted periodic letters he wrote on topics ranging from his daily Rikers routine to new songs he’d heard and liked on the radio. A charger and headphones for a digital music player were found in his cell in May, jail officials said. He started a yearlong sentence in March but got time off for good behavior, despite a disciplinary knock that sent him to solitary for the last month of his term.
40-caliber gun on his bus after a Manhattan concert. Lil Wayne, born Dwayne Carter Jr., pleaded guilty in October 2009 to attempted weapon possession, admitting he’d had a loaded, semiautomatic. And former President Bill Clinton praised the rapper’s abilities during a phone interview with a Pittsburgh radio station Tuesday, adding that “what I hope will happen is that he has a good life now.” President Barack Obama recently told Rolling Stone he has some Lil Wayne music on his iPod. He also was featured on a string of hits by other artists, including Drake and Eminem, that came out while he was incarcerated - and he recorded a verse for the Drake/Jay-Z collaboration “Light Up” over on the phone for a “Rikers Remix” that made the rounds online. His latest album, “I Am Not a Human Being” - released while he was in solitary confinement in September - hit No. Lil Wayne, who had the best-selling album of 2008 and won a best rap album Grammy with “Tha Carter III,” kept his career in high gear while locked up for having a loaded gun on his tour bus in 2007. “I was never scared, worried nor bothered by the situation” behind bars, Lil Wayne said Tuesday through, a website he set up to give fans a glimpse of his life in jail. His managers have said he planned to head for his home in Miami, where they’re planning a welcome-home party Sunday.
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