For a decade, Lil Wayne has been hip-hop’s great unstoppable force, a
24-hour-a-day recording machine without an off button. But on February 9th, Lil
Wayne will have to stop — for 12 months, when he reports to prison to serve a
sentence for gun possession stemming from a 2007 arrest in New York City.
Rolling Stone stays up all night with Weezy as he prepares to get locked down in
our new issue, which is on sale at newsstands today.
“I don’t like to stop,” Wayne tells RS‘ Chris Norris. “I believe you stop when you die.” So in the weeks before he reports to Rikers Island, Wayne is keeping busy — recording tracks bound for Tha Carter IV (the album Cash Money staffers call “C4″ because it’ll be the bomb), shooting videos with his Young Money protégés, spending time with his growing family, and deliberately not asking anyone for advice about life on the inside. “This is Lil Wayne going to jail. Nobody I can talk to can tell me what that’s like,” he says. “I just say I’m looking forward to it.”
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