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Lil' Wayne to Solitary Confinement

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Jail guards found him with headphones in May.

Ain’t that a bitch: Rapper Lil’ Wayne has been moved to solitary confinement after being found with headphones and an MP3 charger—another inmate had the player— back in May. Jailed at New York's Rikers Island since March on a gun-possession charge, Wayne will be confined to an isolation cell for 23 hours a day until his scheduled release November 4th. "He's not in an area where he is mingling with other inmates—ever," a Corrections Department source told New York’s Daily News. Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, had to wait for the solitary cell until an opening became available.

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