New York Post

Lil Wayne was busy in Rikers

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SO that’s how Lil Wayne got out of jail earlier for “good behavior.” He set up a Rikers Island correction officer with one of his model friends while he was inside. Wayne penned his memoir “Gone ’Til November” after being sentenced to a year in jail on gun charges in 2010. He was released after eight months. When speaking to one of the correction officers about a potential job on the suicide prevention team at Rikers, Wayne wrote, “I spoke with Flea about the suicide prevention job and hooked him up with a chick from a maga- zine he had. It went well and that’s all I’m going to say about that, haha.” In addition to creating his own entertainm­ent within the confines of his cell, including writing lyrics, Wayne recalls in the tome that he pretended his jail cell was a club. “My light isn’t [working] . . . it’s blinking on and off like a disco,” he wrote. “So it’s like I’m in the club.” He made $20 million while inside, as tracks he’d collaborat­ed on with other artists were released. He wrote, “I was trying to keep it on the low up in here, but Forbes (bleep)ing blew my cover and announced that in three months I had just made $20 million . . . in jail.”

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