The Trials & Tribulations of Lil Wayne

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New Orleans, LA – With a series of legal problems haunting Lil Wayne for the past couple of months and the people surrounding him giving him nothing but grief and guilt, he still admits that none of it has made any of his music suffer in anyway. 

Everything in Weezy’s life, as of late, has fallen into a chain reaction ever since his arrests. Amongst the people surrounding him giving him nothing but lectures and negativity, he’s also managed the loss of a lot of his guest feature slots on other artist’s tracks, as well as endorsements and sponsorships. Despite all the bedlam, he puts constant blame on himself but keeps his mind still focused on the music. He recently spoke to MTV News concerning his current situation. 

When MTV asked if any of his legal problems were affecting his songwriting, these were his comments: 

"None on my music, me, personally, I get looked at a little differently by some of my fans and some people, period. I can't do nothing about that. I can try. That's what it get looks at as, you're just trying. So I don't try. I just be me. It is what it is. Take it or leave it. But as far as my music, it's done nothing to my music. Nothing could stop that. I'd have to be brain-dead to stop that. Everybody has incidents, everybody's human. I made a mistake. I did make a mistake — a big mistake. I made a mistake with that, but things get better. I'll get better."

He goes forth to explain his thoughts on everybody’s lectures and he feels he should look at the situation:

"To this day, a lot of rappers the game be coming up to me, like, 'Yo, man, you need to be, you gotta be, don't tell me. You don't know what happened. You don't know what's going down. I had, like, 15 people on the bus. Who's to say what's what? But everybody puts on that black gown and becomes judges, so I'm always guilty. If (the police) would have stopped (the bus) that night, and I had everything under control, it wouldn't have been nothing. I was irresponsible at that time. Fucked up on my part. No ifs, ands, buts about it. I don't blame nobody but myself. I can't blame nobody for not taking my charge, This is my bus."

At press time, Wayne is currently awaiting trial for charges stemming from possession of dangerous drugs, possession of a narcotic drug for sale, possession of drug paraphernalia, and misconduct involving weapons. His album, Tha Carter III is “scheduled” for an April release.