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Lil Wayne to Release Prison Memoirs

Lil Wayne will be releasing a book which has been a collection of his dairies written by him while in prison. Lil Wayne whose real … Continue reading Lil Wayne to Release Prison Memoirs


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Lil Wayne will be releasing a book which has been a collection of his dairies written by him while in prison.

Lil Wayne whose real name is Dwayne Carter served eight months of a one year sentence in New York’s Rikers Island jail after pleading guilty to gun possession.

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He titled his book ‘Gone Till November’ is scheduled to hit the bookstores later this year.

Shawn Carter expressed thoughts on his family,children,the people he had dealings during his time outside,his plans for the future and lots more,all these he put down in the yet-to-be released book.

The book has been put in charge of Grand Central Publishing.

The book is set to be released on 28 November 2012.

Lil Wayne was born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. and grew up in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Carter was born when his mother, a chef, was 19 years old.

His parents were divorced when he was 2, and his father permanently abandoned the family. Carter enrolled in the gifted program of Lafayette Elementary School and in the drama club of Eleanor McMain Secondary School.

He wrote his first rap song at age eight.

In the summer of 1991, he met Bryan Williams, rapper and owner of Cash Money Records. Carter recorded freestyle raps on Williams’s answering machine, leading him to mentor the young Carter and include him in Cash Money-distributed songs.

He also recorded his first ever collaboration album True Story with rapper B.G.. At the time, Carter was 11, and B.G. was 14, and was billed as “The B.G.’z”.

When he was 12, he played the part of the Tin Man in his middle school drama club’s production of The Wiz.

At McMain Magnet School, Carter was an honor student, but he dropped out at the age of 14 to focus on a musical career