Lil Wayne

New York (CNN) -- Lil' Wayne was sentenced Monday to a year in prison. The rapper, whose legal name is Dwayne Carter, pleaded guilty in October to felony gun charges as part of a deal with prosecutors. The charges stem from his arrest in 2007 outside New York City's Beacon Theater. According to police, Carter had a .40-caliber pistol on his tour bus. His attorney said it belonged to someone […]

Back in December, the Page Six ran a report about Lil Wayne's marijuana obsession standing in the way of him unloading one of his properties. According to the paper, when a couple came to see the property, they were greeted by scantily clad women and an overwhelming smell of marijuana. Weezy never addressed the rumors, until now. In a recent interview with Tim Westwood, the rapper revealed that some of […]

Lil Wayne got a little breathing room when his sentencing was delayed this week until March, but he made the best of what was to be his last week of freedom. He spent it working ... very hard. According to MTV.com, Weezy's been in overdrive, reportedly filming nine music videos in Miami over the past weekend. Director David Rousseau of Creativeseen said the rapper and his crew began filming at […]

For a decade, Lil Wayne has been hip-hop’s great unstoppable force, a 24-hour-a-day recording machine without an off button. But on February 9th, Lil Wayne will have to stop — for 12 months, when he reports to prison to serve a sentence for gun possession stemming from a 2007 arrest in New York City. Rolling Stone stays up all night with Weezy as he prepares to get locked down in […]

If you're from New Orleans and haven't seen him perform live there, you may have to wait until late next year or even the next, because his final hometown show before he's sentenced to prison already went down this week. The rapper performed in his hometown of New Orleans on Monday (December 28) at the New Orleans Arena to thunderous applause. It is expected to be his last before being […]

Lil Wayne was detained by U.S. Border Patrol agents on Friday evening (December 18), after his tour bus was stopped at a checkpoint in Texas. According to TMZ.com, a random search of vehicles took place at a interior border checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas (a city about 100 miles from the Mexican border), and agents discovered marijuana stashed on two buses. However, Wayne did not have any of the drug on […]

Lil Wayne is still holding down his position as one of the hottest artists in the game presently, and the numbers of his most recent tour is indication of that. According to Billboard.com, Weezy's 2008-2009 tour raked in enough cash to make it the highest grossing hip-hop tour of the year, grossing an estimated $42 million from December 2008 to September 2009. During the 78-date cross country trek, the rapper […]

Mixtapes are a movement. For some, giving away music could mean much more than trying to sell their tunes — but Drake played the game right. He started giving away his mixtape So Far Gone earlier this year, and the word of mouth spread with fans, his peers and record-company executives: a recent New York concert found [Warner Music exec] Lyor Cohen in the crowd, standing among screaming fans, along […]

Lil Wayne has racked up a ton of accolades in the past 12 months, including being the top-selling artist of 2008, winning Best Hip-Hop Video at the VMAs and playing guitar alongside Kid Rock at the Country Music Awards. (That last one seemed crazy to us, too, but it's just been that kind of year for him.) Next up for the Cash Money star? According to most music experts, Wayne […]