Lil Wayne Covers Rolling Stone

The cover uses a “Breakfast Club hat” Wayne picture stemming from a March 2009 photo shoot but the cover story is indeed recent. Rolling Stone Magazine got to spend some time with a Lil Wayne that was about to confront what was waiting for him.

For a decade, Lil Wayne has been hip-hop’s great unstoppable force, a 24-hour-a-day recording machine without an off button. But on February 9th, Lil Wayne will have to stop — for 12 months, when he reports to prison to serve a sentence for gun possession stemming from a 2007 arrest in New York City. Rolling Stone stays up all night with Weezy as he prepares to get locked down