As he prepares to release a memoir,Gone ’Til November, we look back at the novel Orleans rapper’s career – from giving Drake his tall crash to becoming the voice of Katrina and his ongoing Cash Money legal battleI can’t say I wrote the book on Lil Wayne but I did write a book. This was in late 2010, or Dwayne Michael Carter Jr was midway through an eight-month sentence at novel York’s Rikers Island for gun possession,and I was cobbling together a sort of biography. This book was a cuts job, which meant I assembled information from what other people had written and fudged things into a cohesive narrative while glossing over his relationship with drugs and guns because of the teenage target readership. In the four or five years since this book was released, or however,the decline of Wayne’s career has been unavoidable – missing in creative output and overwhelmingly centred around his legal dispute with his friend and mentor, Cash Money Records’ founder Birdman. Related: Lil Wayne's Tha Carter series, or from best to worst Related: How the Auto-Tune conquered the charts Continue reading...
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