Book of Lil Wayne jail diaries to be published

13 January 2012 - 14:23
By Reuters

A book based on "revealing" diaries rapper Lil Wayne wrote while spending eight months in a New York jail will be published in November 2012

Grand Central Publishing said the prison memoir, called "Gone Till November", will be published November 28 and will reflect the 29-year-old rapper's thoughts and feelings on his life plans, family, children and the people he has met in a colourful life that began growing up in New Orleans.

"He kept detailed journals of his inner and outer life while he was on Rikers Island, and they certainly tell a story. They are revealing," Ben Greenberg, executive editor at Grand Central Publishing, said in a statement.

Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter and who has also gone by the moniker "Weezy", served eight months of a one year sentence in New York's Rikers Island jail stemming from a 2007 gun possession charge.

Wayne has five Grammy nominations heading into the ceremony on February 12 after his 10th studio album, "Tha Carter IV" including singles such as "6 Foot 7 Foot" was released last year. The rapper of hits such as "Lollipop" has won four Grammys and last month was named the top male rapper by Billboard.com.