14 DAY TRIAL // The latest issue of music mag Rolling Stone comes with a first interview on rapper Lil Wayne’s prison experience, what he learned from it, which was the hardest thing about it, respect in the industry, and so much more.
The rapper is featured on the cover as well, looking very fierce and definitely buffed up (not that he was ever a skinny man), wearing jeans, underwear in plain sight and his impressive body art.
Speaking of prison, Weezy recalls that the time he spent in solitary was definitely the hardest. During his recent 7-month stint in state penitentiary, the rapper was caught with a charger for an MP3 player in his cell, and was sent to solitary.
Now that he’s out, he can also reveal that he also had one player in his watch, but another inmate took the blame for that.
“Solitary was the worst. No TV. No radio. No commissary. Basically you’re in there 23 hours a day,” Wayne says. He did have a window though, from which he could watch the cars go by. “I used to sit at that mother[expletive] all day,” he adds.
As for the time when he wasn’t in solitary, the rapper would work as a suicide prevention aide (SPA), listen to music and play Uno with the other inmates – that last one until they got sick of him winning all the time and stopped calling him to play.
“They’d be like, ‘Oh, we thought you were asleep.’ Like you can’t look inside my cell and see that I’m right there! We ain’t got no doors!” Wayne says.
He also did a lot of reading while inside, mostly biographies and, surprisingly, the Bible, which he found pretty “cool.”
“[Kiedis’] Scar Tissue was really good,” Wayne reveals. He also read the bios of Jim Morrison, Joan Jett, and Jimi Hendrix.
“I also read the Bible for the first time. It was deep! I liked the parts where some character was once this, but he ended up being that. Like he’d be dissing Jesus, and then he ends up being a saint. That was cool,” Lil Wayne adds.