He Is Music: Lil Wayne's Rise (Tha Carter Era)

Even prison bars can't hold Lil Wayne back — I Am Not a Human Being, released in September 2010 while he was still incarcerated, topped the charts. It was the first time since Tupac's 1995 opus Me Against the World that a musician hit No. 1 while in prison.

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