Incarcerated rapper Lil Wayne has been selected as FUSE's Artist Takeover Monday featured emcee as the network plans to dedicate an entire day to his career with exclusive programming.
Beginning at 11 AM EST on Monday (April 26), Weezy will be featured all day.
Watch as Fuse follows Lil Wayne's career as music fans await his return to the music scene. LOADED: LIL WAYNE Tune-in for some of the rapper's most influential videos in Fuse's half-hour music video franchise dedicated to one artist. BEYOND THE MUSIC: LIL WAYNE Go behind the scenes and backstage at recording studios and video shoots for candid conversations with the Southern rapper. LIL WAYNE'S WORLD Take a sneak peek inside the world of Lil Wayne's World - highlighting his connections to just about everyone in today's hip hop scene. Catch his hottest videos plus numerous cameos in videos from Jay-Z to Gym Class Heroes. LIL WAYNE'S WORLD 2 Go even deeper into Lil Wayne's influence across the music landscape and check out more of his best videos, collaborations and more.
Last week, the network featured the late Tupac Shakur.
The Tupac Takeover will feature a myriad of programming highlighting the life and music of rap legend Tupac Shakur, as well as a feature presentation of the classic cultural film "Juice." Included in the Tupac Takeover will be the "The 2Pac Chronicles" and "Loaded: 2Pac," both highlighting Tupac's classic music video releases and exposing the riveting back story to each.
Wayne is currently behind bars in New York's Rikers Island prison on a gun conviction.
Turns out he is working as a Suicide Prevention Aide patrolling the suicidal inmates in his unit. According to a Riker's corrections insider there are three SPAs for each unit in the Eric M. Taylor Center where Wayne resides. "He works the midnight shift in his unit," says the source. "He starts at 11pm and ends at 7am." And after one month down and possibly 11 more to go, the source says that Wayne still has his panic-button clad escort. "He only works in his unit and all the inmates there have escorts. He's only accompanied when he leaves that unit.
The rapper's long-time friend and Cash Money Records' head Baby recently visited Wayne.
"He been locked down a month," Birdman said in an interview. "Seven more to go. You know he's built for that. We been around convicts and killers all our life. We from New Orleans...That's what the No Ceilings [mixtape] is about. Paradise on Earth. That's how we living. Sh*t. YM/CMB, we built to last. That's what makes us. That's what we built on. That's just a nap. But when he comes home, best believe, big money poppin'. Big money sh--. Moolah!"
Check out a preview of Lil Wayne's marathon below:
Incarcerated rapper Lil Wayne is reportedly being sued by producer Jim Jonsin who claims he was never compensated for his work on the smash hit, "Lollipop."
According to Jonsin, he has yet to be paid for his contribution to the Carter III .
The producer of Lil Wayne's hit "Lollipop" is suing the rapper for $500,000 over the track. Weezy is currently serving a prison sentence for gun possession but that still hasn't stopped him getting into trouble. Jim Jonsin claims he hasn't earned any money from the smash single - which was released back in 2008 and went to number one in the US. Jonsin produced Lollipop and is credited as a co-writer.
Jonsin also pointed out that the Carter III track has made millions in profits.
On behalf of himself and his company, Rebel Rock Productions, Jim Jonsin, whose real name is James Scheffer, sued Young Money Entertainment in Manhattan Federal Court. Scheffer says "Lollipop" has garnered more than 4 million downloads and more than $4 million in ringtone sales. Scheffer says the rapper promised semi-annual accounting statements, but skipped the statements due in December 2008 and June 2009. When it did provide them, the statements "grossly underreported the monies due plaintiff and were not accompanied by any payment," Scheffer says.
Speaking with DJ Bay Bay last year, Carter III producers Play-N-Skills said they don't blame Wayne for late payments.
"First off, shout-out to Wayne and everybody because it's really kinda a misunderstanding," they explained. "There is no lawsuit as we speak, we working everything out. But the whole thing is we had not been compensated for it right now, we haven't been paid but sometimes it takes time for paperwork to be done...The music business right now just don't like to pay nobody...The Carter III has received lawsuits, prior to us there was another sample issue, there was another producer that jumped up and it's kinda not fair to Wayne at the same time. And I'm not saying trying to take his side because homie's doing his thing. I'm sure Wayne and them got their money up front but I ain't got mine. It's close to four million records, it's one of the biggest selling albums in a long time. I just wanna get a little bit."
Last September, the duo said their issues with getting paid were nearly resolved.
"It's not officially settled, but I'm going to say we took massive steps forward to get everything resolved," they revealed in an interview. "There was never really a lawsuit, I don't know where that one really [went] left field. We were never officially suing Lil Wayne and Young Money and Cash Money, it was just we were at a producer conference and we were giving advice to young producers and I'ma say it again. Sometimes, you gotta just jump out into the water without a life vest and just go and do what you gotta do to survive. And that's what we did, we had the opportunity to be on an album like Carter 3, we'll arrange it later on, we gonna get it fixed. We handle all the paper work, that's not the case like we didn't handle our business, it's just the checks haven't been cut. Not just for Play-N-Skillz, but d*mn near every producer on that album has not been paid, you know what I'm saying? It's just a bunch of sample bullsh*t and everything else that's going on, so shout-out to Wayne, Young Money, Cash Money, it's all good daddy, let's do another one."
Check out Lil Wayne's "Lollipop" music video down below:
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