Lil Wayne’s Sentencing Postponed Due to ‘Oral Surgery’

It appears that rapper Lil Wayne, who was facing sentencing for felony gun rap he pleaded guilty to last year, got a month’s reprieve from jail on Tuesday. According to nydailynews.com, a Manhattan judge agreed to postpone Wayne’s sentencing until 2nd March.

The rapper’s lawyer said that the sentencing was postponed, so Lil Wayne could fly to Miami to undergo what he described as ‘oral surgery.’ Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon reportedly agreed, saying that it was medically necessary.

Dressed in black with his dreds tied back in a rubber band, Lil Wayne, whose real name is in fact Dwayne Carter, didn’t say anything at all during his brief court appearance. When it was all over, the rapper and his entourage got back into their SUV’s, and drove off.

Wayne pleaded guilty to the felony gun rap last year, after cops found a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun in his tour bus. He then agreed to spend a year in Rikers and faced a possible sentence of three-and-a-half to seven years in prison.