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I now pronounce you cellmates: Lil Wayne officiated same-sex wedding behind bars

I now pronounce you cellmates: Lil Wayne officiated same-sex wedding behind bars
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Give Lil Wayne some credit. He may be heterosexual and may have a criminal record for weapons possession, but that doesn’t preclude the rapper from being a straight-up LGBTQ ally who just happened to spend eight months on Rikers Island.

In his new autobiography due in bookstores next month, Wayne writes about his 2010 incarceration inside New York City’s notorious correctional facility, including the same-sex wedding between two cellmates at which he officiated, and more, according to People.

Wayne writes:

“Imagine seeing grown-ass men in jail hanging tissue for wedding decorations. AND one of them is Lil Wayne. Crazy.”

The memoir, Gone ‘Til November,  also reveals that the rapper’s girlfriend slept with his rival Drake while he was in the pokey and that a plan he had to recreate the infamous scene from the film Basic Instinct was foiled when guards inspecting visitors discovered that same girlfriend of Wayne’s was not wearing underpants.

All this comes as Wayne marks his 34th birthday, which BET reports prompted an Instagram post from his daughter:

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