After eight long months at Rikers Island, the big day finally arrived. On November 4, 2010, Lil Wayne was released from prison. After his release, Lil Wayne addressed his time in the joint in a post on his prison website, WeezyThanxYou.com. “I was never scared, worried nor bothered by the situation,” he wrote of spending eight months behind bars (reported by The Associated Press). According to members of his management team, he headed straight to his home in Miami, where a big party was awaiting to welcome him home.
Lil Wayne had more to celebrate than just his freedom; during his final month at Rikers, while he sat in solitary confinement, his album “I Am Not a Human Being” was released, skyrocketing to No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
While he was no doubt thrilled to be finally free, there was at least one aspect of prison life that he remembered fondly: Friday-night radio music parties. “On Fridays, we go to the club. You have a little AM/FM radio that you buy from commissary,” he divulged during a post-release interview with Angie Martinez of radio station Hot 97 (reported by Vulture). As Wayne recalled, on weekends, from 10 p.m. until 2 p.m., Hot 97 would often broadcast live DJ sets from a nightclub — which he and other inmates would listen to on the tiny transistor radio. “And we be in the club, too, ’cause we locked in our cell,” he added.
