Wayne, barely into his teens, was a big part of that ascension. Others, like Lil Slim and Cash Money's only two female signees, Ms Tee and Magnolia Shorty, were either cut loose or left before the brothers signed their landmark, career-making distribution deal with Universal Music Group in 1998, launching the gritty little outfit from the Third Ward onto a national stage. Much of its initial roster - Kilo G, Pimp Daddy, and UNLV's Yella Boy - became casualties of New Orleans' record-setting mid-'90s murder rate before the label saw big-time success. In 1992, when Baby and his brother Slim slapped the label together out of sweat and hustle, it was just one of many scrappy indies putting out rap tapes and CDs in New Orleans. The break between Cash Money and Wayne is big news, of course, due to the wattage of fame and amount of money involved, but it's also shocking because for so many years, Lil Wayne was Cash Money. The fallout from his repudiation of Cash Money has dominated Wayne's public self for two years now, from the rapper's ongoing $51 million breach of contract suit (filed in New York, withdrawn and refiled in Louisiana) to both veiled and overt lyrical potshots taken at the label and its owner.
Birdman) in particular, the label co-founder whose role in Wayne's life had been as much surrogate dad as boss.
Just about five years after his release from actual prison, he unleashed the now-infamous stream of tweets declaring himself a "prisoner" to Cash Money and to Bryan "Baby" Williams (a.k.a. The Wayne of late 2016 is in a much different place. (He was shining so bright that fans even forgave the critical flop Rebirth, the "rock" hybrid released while he was in prison.) And things were about to get even bigger he had just signed both Drake and Nicki Minaj, the acts that would make it a global powerhouse, to his Young Money Entertainment subsidiary.
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When he began serving his sentence, Wayne was buoyed by the massive creative, commercial and critical triumph of 2008's Tha Carter III, plus a couple of highly solid mixtapes and a flood of feature appearances. If Gone Til November itself offers no major revelations as to either prison life or the rapper himself, it does come at an interesting time to consider Lil Wayne. Life on the inside is stressful, sometimes frightening, often frustrating, but most of all, really boring. Mindful of the unwanted attention his celebrity will bring, he keeps to himself a lot.
He reads Anthony Kiedis' autobiography and answers fan mail. There's no reason not to believe that the book was, as advertised, transcribed directly from the journal Wayne kept during the eight months he spent incarcerated at Rikers Island in 2010, largely because the entries are pretty mundane: He eats a lot of sugar, watches sports and American Idol, plays cards and does push-ups. Lil Wayne's prison memoir, Gone Til November, is - like his two Sorry 4 The Wait mixtapes - framed as a stopgap offering to quell fan's appetites during an unexpectedly prolonged wait between official projects. His memoir, Gone 'Til November, is out now. Lil Wayne performing in Las Vegas in 2015.
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