Lil Wayne Tweets his way on
Among the myriad of things one should do the week before being sentenced to prison, getting a Twitter account is surely high up on the list.
Rapper Lil Wayne, who is due back in the Manhattan Supreme Court next Tuesday for sentencing, officially started tweeting on Monday.
His location? Mars, of course. (As his fans know, Wayne has repeatedly said that he is not the same as the rest of us, and is in fact a Martian.)
In his first tweet, Wayne explained, “im super new to this twitter expletive but wudup tho !” before adding in a birthday shout-out and a little encouragement for the Twitter community to start following him. At the time of this posting, Wayne already had around 61,000 followers.
He’s certainly not one of the top celebrity Twitter users yet–his last tweet was about 9 hours ago–but there’s hope that he’ll keep it up even after his sentencing.
Wayne’s manager, Cortez Bryant, told Rolling Stone that Twitter could be one of the ways Wayne will stay in touch with fans while he’s serving his bid.
His real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., born on September 27, 1982 is an American rapper. Formerly a member of the rap group the Hot Boys, he joined the Cash Money Records collective as a teenager. Get It How U Live!, released in 1997, was Lil Wayne’s first album with Hot Boys, and Tha Block Is Hot, his solo debut, came out in 1999.
After gaining fame with two other albums in the early 2000s, Lil Wayne reached higher popularity with 2004’s Tha Carter and its two subsequent albums Tha Carter II (2005) and Tha Carter III (2008), which sold over a million copies in its first week. He earned various accolades following Tha Carter III, including eight Grammy Awards nominations. He has had two number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 (“Lollipop” featuring Static Major and “Down” with Jay Sean). He released his first rock album titled Rebirth in 2010.
