Lil Wayne redefines stardom behind bars

NEW YORK - 1 November 2010 - was a best-selling album in the country earlier this month. It's iPod president. It charts third with two singles partnership. He was followed by Facebook with updates from over 14 million people after him. Is in any way out Lil Wayne in jail. But his public image is not locked. The rapper, who released Thursday after eight months in the case of a pistol was the first artist in 15 years to a number 1 album on the Billboard 200 starts at run time in prison. His "I am not a person" for a week in the slot at the top who have over 323 000 copies sold since its release 27 September, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

It is only the coveted award. But it is a reflection of the popularity of Lil Wayne - He went to prison for multi-platinum selling Grammy -. The result of skillful maneuvers, which are now trying the media landscape around the pop celebrity get real "everywhere"?. The challenge was to make you feel like you never left, "said Bryan" Birdman "Williams, Cash Money Records founder, the career of the rapper Lil Wayne helped young people. "We came with a good strategy and it worked." Management team members released, the rapper a carefully planned music to be respected, that their responses was a wave of fan mail to the complexity of the Rikers jail Iceland written in the city and published online.

It was approved visiting hours "and music played Rikers by telephone from prison, Lil Wayne -. campaign also comes with its own face" and the slogan "Free Weezy" One of his nicknames - flows through the channels from shirts to Twitter hashtags for the rapper His punishment was exile hard in the studio, which typically like to spend time together. Night to say his teammates. "If you remove someone's desire to be frustrating," Williams said in an interview. But for fans who not only provide a constant stream of new music, but unusual for a direct connection to a musical star. Blog he created for the fans, who offered his ideas to work day and the answers to some of the letters of listeners, he says, anchor in the day. "I never thought I could be such an influence on the lives of people," he wrote in July on the site, Weezythanxyou.com.

Known for its production of the executioner, a clever pun sold more strange, Lil Wayne over the top album of 2008 and won the Grammy for best rap album for "Tha Carter III". Time magazine considers him of his most influential people on the list last year, Barack Obama recently told Rolling Stone Lil Wayne music to your iPod. President of the rapper, born Dwayne Carter Jr., in October 2009 was convicted on the gun charge in his tour bus after a concert in Manhattan in 2007, he began his last year serving in a court hearing in March .

It is expected to leave early for good behavior in spite of it landed in electronic smuggling alone in the last months in office, headphones and charger for digital camera mobile music player, said prison officials. (Approved missteps of his blog.) In Rikers, also pleaded guilty to a charge of drug possession in Arizona, was sentenced to three years probation and wine. The night came with a list of rappers successfully spent time behind bars, a list that blurs the line between art and life went into the genre through the city.