As an idea formal enough to have spawned four singles since 2012, it’s reportedly complete. Settlement talks have stalled, and the album, which is reaching a Detox-like status, remains in limbo. He wants out of his contract and believes he’s due money the label allegedly withheld from him for his anticipated 12th studio album, Tha Carter V. Last year, Lil Wayne sued his record label, Cash Money Records, and its CEO, Bryan “Birdman” Williams, for $51 million. The prison memoir, while remarkable, is the only thing of note the New Orleans rapper has released on his own in 2016. It’s the last hard copy of a CD I ever bought in a store, and probably the last I ever will buy. “I don’t wish jail on anybody.” While behind bars, Lil Wayne handwrote daily journal entries that were recently published in Gone ‘Til November in his original penmanship. “I’ve unfortunately seen a lot of spirits get broken in this hell hole,” he wrote on his last day at Rikers. Part of him remains in that New York jail complex. Between 2004 and the day he got to Rikers, Lil Wayne was featured on 373 different tracks.īut in the 242 days he spent locked up - a reduced sentence for good behavior - Lil Wayne entered a hell he’s never fully been able to escape. He was young, all he did was record - mixtapes, albums, singles, you name it - and he worked with every artist imaginable, from Enrique Iglesias to violinist Miri Ben-Ari and even posthumously the late Notorious B.I.G. The Weezy era began with Tha Carter in 2004, when at the age of 21, he notched his first big hit, Go DJ, which climbed to No. March 8, 2010, the day Lil Wayne arrived at Rikers Island Correctional Facility, marks the end of his reign as the “Best Rapper Alive.” He’d proclaimed himself the best, and justifiably so. Incarceration is real and it affects the body and soul. No, he’s not “new and improved” since prison. Jordan returned to the NBA in 2001 to play two seasons, but even then he was only ever a shadow of his former self. Leaving music to serve a one-year sentence for gun possession is, in a weird way, comparable to Jordan retiring from basketball - for the second time, and for what some thought was for good - in 1999. Lil Wayne was the Michael Jordan of hip-hop once, the greatest to ever hold a mic.
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