It’s been a staple diet for most rappers – living the bad boy lifestyle: drugs, guns, women, every little arrest or bust fuelling the image and in turn the record sales.
But in the case of Lil Wayne it’s just become his Catch 22.
The Drop the World rapper was today denied a UK visa which has put the brakes on a summer of headline gigs and festivals that the American rapper had planned.
Weezy recently spent a spell of eight months in New York’s Rikers Prison for gun charges.
Having been denied the essential immigration paperwork his current US I Am Music Tour will now have to stay the other side of the Atlantic.
And remember folks Guns don’t kill people…they kill the opportunity to tour in Europe.
Tha Carter IV is due to drop on May 16th.