Oct. 4-10: Weezy's Wild Week Of Ups & Downs
It was the best of weeks and it was the worst of weeks for hip-hop star Lil' Wayne this week, who scored a #2 album, I Am Not A Human Being, but had to celebrate under very inhumane conditions: in solitary confinement during the last days of his weapons-charges prison sentence.
The week got off to rough start for the troubled 28-year-old rapper, when on Monday he was moved to "punitive segregation" for stashing a non-prison-issue iPod charger and headphones in his prison cell. (He had apparently hidden the musical contraband in an empty potato chip bag in a trash bin.) As punishment for this offense, Weezy will now remain in solitary confinement 23 hours a day--without being allowed to socialize with other inmates, watch TV, or, of course, listen to music--until his November 4 release. Talk about facing the music...
However, the day after Wayne was put into solitary, he did receive some good news, when he learned that his latest album had sold 110,000 copies in its first week of digital-only release and had charted at #2 on the Billboard 200 (making it the second digital-only album to reach the top two, after the benefit album Hope For Haiti Now). Additionally, 11 Wayne songs held steady on the Hot Digital Songs chart, putting him second only to the "Glee" cast's 12 digital hits. So that was something to be gleeful about, at least--and Weezy is sure to rack up even more sales when I Am Not A Human Being is physically issued next week.
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/thatsreallyweek/108895/oct-4-10-weezys-wild-week-of-upsdowns/
It was the best of weeks and it was the worst of weeks for hip-hop star Lil' Wayne this week, who scored a #2 album, I Am Not A Human Being, but had to celebrate under very inhumane conditions: in solitary confinement during the last days of his weapons-charges prison sentence.
The week got off to rough start for the troubled 28-year-old rapper, when on Monday he was moved to "punitive segregation" for stashing a non-prison-issue iPod charger and headphones in his prison cell. (He had apparently hidden the musical contraband in an empty potato chip bag in a trash bin.) As punishment for this offense, Weezy will now remain in solitary confinement 23 hours a day--without being allowed to socialize with other inmates, watch TV, or, of course, listen to music--until his November 4 release. Talk about facing the music...
However, the day after Wayne was put into solitary, he did receive some good news, when he learned that his latest album had sold 110,000 copies in its first week of digital-only release and had charted at #2 on the Billboard 200 (making it the second digital-only album to reach the top two, after the benefit album Hope For Haiti Now). Additionally, 11 Wayne songs held steady on the Hot Digital Songs chart, putting him second only to the "Glee" cast's 12 digital hits. So that was something to be gleeful about, at least--and Weezy is sure to rack up even more sales when I Am Not A Human Being is physically issued next week.
http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/thatsreallyweek/108895/oct-4-10-weezys-wild-week-of-upsdowns/
