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- aMunster, on 10/22/2009, -4/+45To quote from A Milli (2007):
"And I'd rather be pushin' flowers
than to be in the pen sharin' showers"
Clearly not, if he pled guity. - DouglasRClark, on 10/22/2009, -3/+39"Wayne will be sentenced in February 2010 and is expected to serve eight to 10 months, assuming good behavior. He must also appear in court in December for a parole update."
Damn. Guess this means we'll only get around 70 tracks in 2010, not 564... - shadowmanjack, on 10/22/2009, -11/+44Wayne is also expected to be tried for Assault with ***** Music.
- aosmitty, on 10/22/2009, -3/+23Not that simple. From a link within the article:
"Following his arraignment, Wayne was released on $70,000 bond on one count of criminal weapons possession and one charge of criminal possession of a loaded weapon that could send him to prison for anywhere from 3 1/2 years to 15 years."
This is why you hire a defense lawyer. He's going in for about a year, instead of facing a jury, a likely guilty conviction and sentencing by someone (judge or jury) willing to punish a loaded weapon charge.
He goes in for a few months, gets (even more) street cred, some quiet time to write more stuff and doesn't have to worry about losing a decade of prime career years rotting in a cell. Not to mention maintain a relationship with his daughter through some formative years without a lexan window between them.
Under the circumstances, it's the best possible outcome regardless of how much he wants to stay out of jail. - DDRSkata, on 10/22/2009, -5/+23I'm gonna get buried to hell for this, but Lil' Wayne is great on his non-single tracks and guest spots. He's very clever, great with words, and his rant about race relations and hating Al Sharpton at the end of Misunderstood, though it's like four minutes long, is awesome.
I wonder how many of the people saying it's good that he goes to jail are against gun control and would be saying a completely different thing if it was a musician they liked. - Sanderson9009, on 10/22/2009, -6/+23good rapper?
- skokage, on 10/22/2009, -2/+14Man, the comments on the mtv page make me weep. About the same level of intelligent discussion that occurs on youtube comments.
- Ravatar, on 10/22/2009, -1/+12I used to be on the "hate Wayne just because" kick, but looking back at songs like Mr. Carter, Tie My Hands, Playing with Fire, Comfortable, Hustler Musik, Carter II and other stuff he's done recently I can really respect the body of work he's accumulated.
Even if he's not making music for me, there's one thing nobody can deny: this dude is a ***** hard worker.
"All I have in this world is a pistol and a promise
A fist full of dollars, a list full of problems" - buckeye45, on 10/22/2009, -2/+11i wonder if auto-tune will be dead by the time he gets out.
- TextingTina, on 10/22/2009, -5/+13Darn...no more robotic-voiced songs.
- Sanderson9009, on 10/22/2009, -2/+9Kanye and T-Pain are still out and about unfortunately
- Ravatar, on 10/22/2009, -1/+8Or, you know, for trying to protect yourself. In 2001, he was shot in the chest when he was in his tour bus.
- jaykoo21, on 10/23/2009, -1/+7You see that? You said "GOOD" rock music. Yet you're too stuck in your own world to realize that "good" hip hop is far more than talking to a beat. Not only is there someone "talking to a beat" but there is someone creating that beat, taking influence from african music, spanish music, punjabi, middle eastern, even your "good" rock music. Sometimes it's with instruments, sometimes it's with computer equipment. But don't believe for a second that hip hop is a talentless artform because you're too much of a pretentious little ***** to go out and respect something other than "good" rock music.
- D1Foley, on 10/22/2009, -1/+7Agreed, you can tell he loves making music because he comes out with so many mixtapes and just releases them for free. Everyone thought he was crazy for going against the music industry norm and making yourself scarce (Dr. Dre), they thought nobody would buy his album because he came out with so much for free. Then he sold a million copies the first day. I know I bought it, he deserves it, he gives us so much free music i'll pick up the one album every couple years.
- brettg102, on 10/22/2009, -0/+6The US is made of many states...all of which have different firearms laws.Even worse, firearms laws change from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Drive 20 minutes to another county...and the laws change. 48 States have normal, sane gun laws...Illinois and NYs are kind of a bit nuts (while Washing DCs were recently ruled unconstitutional). NYs firearms laws are incredibly overbearing, without being an all of ban. New York has a kind of striking dichotomy between NYC and upstate New York, which makes thing very confusing. If you have a gun, and are about to enter New York...I'd just leave it for fear of unknowingly breaking some law.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_Unite ... - drflux, on 10/22/2009, -0/+6Plaxico Burress gets 2 for shooting his leg.
- maddHavoc, on 10/22/2009, -1/+7You know you don't HAVE to listen right? You know that button next to play?
- DDRSkata, on 10/22/2009, -2/+7Lil' Wayne stopped doing the autotune thing, thankfully. I think DOA really did kill autotune for everyone who isn't T-Pain.
- jaykoo21, on 10/23/2009, -0/+5Considering 90% of the inmates probably listen to his music and probably even were doing so when they committed their crimes, I think he'd be pretty comfortable in gen pop.
- enozten, on 10/22/2009, -1/+6pleading guilty has nothing to do with that.
if he went to trial he might be sharin' showers for even longer
it should be
"clearly not, if he didn't hang himself at the prospect of going to prison" - Dojjah, on 10/22/2009, -0/+4In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, "It's only a year."
- aMunster, on 10/22/2009, -0/+4Point taken.
- lofi4life, on 10/22/2009, -0/+4I thought that in the US you were allowed to have guns? Also why does he need one? Doesn't he have body guards etc? Or is it just an image thing?
- DDRSkata, on 10/22/2009, -0/+3Plax's gun went off in a crowded club.
- HottLumpiaz, on 10/22/2009, -1/+4Why does Lil Wayne get a 1year sentence but Plaxico Burress gets 2 for exactly the same charge in the exact same city???
- DDRSkata, on 10/22/2009, -1/+4"Get on my level, you can't get on my level
You gon' need a spaceship or a ladder that's forever"
"I am the leather jacket, black glasses, all-American bad boy
I own the swagger supermarket and you, you just a bag boy" - Lucid00, on 10/23/2009, -0/+3If an artists love of music surpasses their love of money, they're cool with me.
- AiR1890, on 10/22/2009, -0/+3He definently will not be in general population, they will eat him alive. I don't think he would survive a day in general population.
- KMFDM781, on 10/22/2009, -2/+5The problem is...nobody cares enough to root around for his "good *****" in the pile of crap he already has.
- DDRSkata, on 10/22/2009, -1/+3He got shot a few years ago. I'd carry a gun if I were him.
- MeatMountain, on 10/23/2009, -1/+3he should plead guilty to being a bad rapper
- SketchaMPM, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2Best. I don't think he understands that word either.
- elmuerte17, on 10/22/2009, -2/+4The solution to guns is obviously more guns.
- aufte, on 10/22/2009, -0/+2Yeah, yeah. He'll go to jail, find God, get released early. I wish I could do the same but sadly I'm not an American celebrity.
- bringitontimx, on 10/22/2009, -4/+6Good.
- elmuerte17, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2I hope not.
- inactive, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2wee oh wee oh wee
- giggl3, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2lol lock him up so he can get a hold of a real life for once. I bet he makes a song about him getting butt raped by a large inmate!
Not all fun and jokes now lil wayne even with Slim and whoever can't get you out of the slammer muwhaha - ZombieSociety, on 10/23/2009, -2/+4Your argument lost all validity at "ya'll."
- MadHarvey, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2Alive. I don't think this word means what you think it means.
- inactive, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2Lock him up, where i belongs.
- sagradia, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2How many of these celebrities are "fake" wannabe criminals who use jail time to promote their career in the long run? You play hard, you serve hard.
- boozedrinker, on 10/22/2009, -7/+9Lil' Wayne is a douche.
- Lucid00, on 10/23/2009, -0/+2Yea, I've got to agree with the above comment.
Hip-Hop actually influenced modern music more than people like to think, especially Rock, Rappers took influence from Rock and Rockers took influence from Rappers.
Listen to the lyrics of a Pre-Hip-Hop Rock song, then listed to a post-Hip-Hop Rock song, and you'll see what I mean.
A lot of bands have gotten poetic, or have made lyrics with deeper meanings thanks to Hip-Hop pushing the bar in lyricism in mainstream music.
A great example of a band like this would be Fall Out Boy, though they basically admitted to a Hip-Hop influence by having a song titled after a quote from a Jay-Z track. - Lucid00, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1Someone needs to invent something to comb out all of the dumb comments, these vote up/down buttons only give power to the same people spewing this garbage.
- maddHavoc, on 10/22/2009, -4/+5*****, finally someone knows his real music.
- Dojjah, on 10/22/2009, -1/+2I am expecting some good mixtapes to drop between no and Febuary 2010.
- Lucid00, on 10/23/2009, -0/+1I don't mean to be morbid, but does this mean he's going to kick the bucket sometime soon?
- Gman412, on 10/23/2009, -2/+3***** deserves it, I would like more but I'll take what I can get.
- triferlinks, on 10/22/2009, -3/+4Thats another cd in progress. UGH!
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