Lil Wayne 'recovering' in hospital after seizure
Grammy-winning and multiplatinum-selling rapper Lil Wayne suffered a seizure and "is recovering," his record label's publicist said Friday.
"I'm good everybody," read a message on Lil Wayne's Twitter account. "Thnx for the prayers and love."
While acknowledging a medical issue, members of the New Orleans' artist's camp shot down reports that he was near death.
"Dont believe the nonsense about comas and tubes to breathe ... that's false!!" tweeted Mack Maine, the president of Lil Wayne's Young Money label, around 5:20 p.m. (8:20 p.m. ET) Friday.
Sarah Cunningham, a publicist with the Young Money record label, acknowledged that Lil Wayne had a seizure.
The public relations
department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Los Angeles hospital
where the rapper is reportedly being treated, did not confirm or deny
that Lil Wayne is there, per its policy.
Maine didn't offer much
detail, though he did say that he and Lil Wayne had been watching the
Syracuse University Orange play Georgetown in the Big East men's
basketball tournament.
"Wayne is alive and well!" the record label president wrote on Twitter.
The rapper's independent
publicist, Kia Selby, said only, "Lil Wayne is doing well." She strongly
denied reports he was in a medically induced coma, as reported by TMZ.
Born Dwayne Carter, Lil
Wayne is one of the rap world's most successful artists. He won best rap
album for "Tha Carter III" at the 2008 Grammy awards, and took home
three more Grammys the following year.
Beyond winning over
critics, he's also been a commercial success. Last September, Billboard
reported the rapper had tallied 109 hits on its Hot 100, surpassing the
record previously held by Elvis Presley.
But he's also run into trouble outside the studio and stage.
Lil Wayne was arrested
in 2007 outside New York City's Beacon Theater after police said they
found a .40-caliber pistol on his tour bus. He ended up pleading guilty
to felony gun charges and spending eight months at New York's Rikers
Island jail.
