Lil Wayne opens up about prison life
January 19th, 2011 | By
During his eight-month stint at Rikers Island, rapper Lil Wayne worked as an SPA (suicide prevention aide), listened to a lot of music on the radio and played Uno with his cellmates in the Protective Custody division, he tells Rolling Stone in an n-word-filled interview.
“I’d bust a (n-word) at Uno,” he told writer Josh Eells. “We gamble for phone time. I’d take (his) commissary: Lemme get them cookies, lemme get them chips, get that soup.”
In addition to playing games, he read books, including biographies of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Joan Jett, Vince Lombardi and Anthony Kiedis. “I also read the Bible for the first time. It was deep! I liked the parts where some character was once this, but he ended up being that. Like he’d be dissing Jesus, and then he ends up being a saint. That was cool.”
He also mentions that he was upset when he sat courtside at a recent Miami Heat/New Orleans Hornets game, and Lebron James and Dwayne Wade never came over to talk to him. “Them (n-words) never speak to a (n-word),” he says.
