NEW YORK — After saying goodbye on concert stages and online video streams, Lil Wayne had nothing to add as he was sentenced Monday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.
The Grammy Award- winning rapper delivered a brief bow to fans and supporters as he was led out of a courtroom in handcuffs to start serving his sentence.
Arrested in July 2007, he pleaded guilty in October to attempted criminal possession of a weapon. He admitted he had the loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun on his bus.
Lil Wayne, 27, arrived later Monday at the Rikers Island jail complex, where he was being held from the general population of inmates because of his fame. He has a cell to himself but the option of spending time in a TV room with other inmates who also have been separated from the general population because of notoriety or other reasons.
The rap star could be released in about eight months with good behavior.
“I’ll be still rapping in there, have a gang of raps ready when I come back home,” he said.
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