Lil Wayne Excerpts From Rolling Stone Issue, Says Hardest Part Of Jail Was Going Without Sex
Here are some excerpts from Lil Wayne’s Rolling Stone cover story, which hits newsstands on January 21. Weezy talks about LeBron James and Dwayne Wade never coming up to talk to him, and the hardest part of being in jail- going without sex.“I’d bust a nigga’s ass at Uno,” he told writer Josh Eells. “We gamble for phone time. I’d take nigga’s commissary: Lemme get them cookies, lemme get them chips, get that soup.”
Eventually his cellmates stopped inviting him to games. “They’d be like, ‘Oh, we thought you were asleep,’” Wayne says. “Like you can’t look inside my cell and see that I’m right there! We ain’t got no doors!”
When Wayne sat court-side at a recent Miami Heat/New Orleans Hornets game he was upset that Lebron James and Dwayne Wade never came over to talk to him. “Them niggas never speak to a nigga,” he says. “They don’t chuck me the deuce or nothing. Nigga spent all that money on them fucking tickets… Come holla at me. We sit right by them little bitch-ass niggas. At least come ask me why I’m not rooting for you.”
In prison he read biographies of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Marvin Gaye, Joan Jett, Vince Lombardi and Anthony Kiedis. “Kiedis’ Scar Tissue was really good,” he says. “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 spent his final month in jail in solitary after he was caught with an iPod charger in his cell. It could have been worse: He also had a watch with an MP3 player on it, but another inmate took the rap. “He was a solid nigga,” says Wayne. “Shout-out to Charles…Solitary was the worst. No TV. No radio. No commissary. Basically you’re in there 23 hours a day.” The only upside was he had a window where he could watch cars go by. “I used to sit at that motherfucker all day,” he says.
The hip-hop star told Rolling Stone the closest thing he had to companionship in his cell in Rikers Island, New York, was a picture of a woman from a magazine that he taped to the wall.
‘Anyone starts looking good in that bitch,’ he tells the US music magazine. ‘Like, ‘Damn, look at HER with that uniform on, Mrs Officer!’’
The star still insists the gun he was sent to jail over was not his, but he says he was man enough to take the punishment.
‘I dropped my nuts and took it,’ he said, referring to his eight-month prison sentence.
He also tells the magazine that being behind bars wasn’t so bad.
He said: ‘Not to use the word ‘easy’ – but it wasn’t as difficult as people might think. There’s difficulty – mentally, just waking up every day in that motherfucker. But once you get over that, it’s all good.’
And he insists it wasn’t the length of time he had to go without sex that bothered him, just the total lack of opportunity, adding that he’s been celibate before for eight months, because he was on tour.
‘If you meet a girl on tour, she just wants to get fucked,’ he says. ‘I don’t fuck – I make love. You’re gonna FEEL it.’
But he soon reveals his ‘romantic’ comments are just a sham when he complains to the Rolling Stone journalist about how his girlfriend wants to kiss when they have sex – and then asking a friend to bring over some ‘chicks’, saying: “New pussy is always good’.
