Lil Wayne choose to plead guilty to illegal weapon possession in New York regarding his 2007 arrest when police pulled over his tour bus looking for marijuana. He will now serve between 8-10 months behind bars (8 months for good behavior).

Why did he get that much time? New York-based attorney Scott Leemon explained to MTV that in NY state if there is no license for the weapon in your possession, it’s a C felony.

Other rappers quickly reacted to Lil Wayne sentence on Twitter.
Jim Jones said: "Thts crazy lil Wayne gets a year for a hand pistol and ti gets the same tome for having army issued rifles wit silencers U tell me wtf".
Juelz Santana : "A! I just arrived 2 the set. Just did a MTV News interview wit Shaheem about Lil Wayne. That’s some BULL SH*T!!!!"
Rick Ross : "It hurt us, we strategize and work towards this for so long, [and] when something like that, a major inconvenience such as that, nine people out of 10, that stint could hurt them. But I think Wayne has a unique situation with his Cash Money family and now his Young Money roster, I know they got a lot of things poppin’. Wayne’s got enough music. He’s one of the few artists I feel could eat those 10 months up, or that year, and then come home to rap royalty. If anybody is gonna be able to do it, it’s gonna be Wayne."

Props to RR for the legal insight.

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