Saturday, January 14, 2012

Lil Wayne writing prison memoir

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, Lil Wayne performs at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. The rapper has signed with Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, for the memoir ?Gone Till November.? Hachette announced Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 that the book will tell of his eight months spent at the Rikers Island complex on a gun possession charge. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2011 file photo, Lil Wayne performs at the MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. The rapper has signed with Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, for the memoir ?Gone Till November.? Hachette announced Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 that the book will tell of his eight months spent at the Rikers Island complex on a gun possession charge. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

(AP) ? Lil Wayne is offering a literary tour of his prison days.

The million-selling rapper has signed with Grand Central Publishing, a division of Hachette Book Group, for the memoir "Gone Till November." Hachette announced Thursday that the book will tell of his eight months spent at the Rikers Island complex on a gun possession charge. Scheduled to come out in November, two years after his release, the book will be an "internal monologue," based on diaries he kept while in prison.

Born Dwayne Carter Jr., Lil Wayne had the best-selling album of 2008 with "Tha Carter III," which won a best rap album Grammy.

Associated Press

Source: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/4e67281c3f754d0696fbfdee0f3f1469/Article_2012-01-12-Books-Lil%20Wayne/id-78535f2aec5641e9970fe9e2d92fc227

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