professed gangsta with the gunshot wound to prove it, but he's made plenty clear how he feels about doing time behind bars. “I'd rather be pushin' flowers,” he raps in 2008's “A Milli,” “than to be in the pen sharin' showers.” He might have to get used to it. At the apex of a career that has made him one of music's biggest sellers, the Grammy-winning artist is expected to start a yearlong jail term Tuesday after pleading guilty in a New York City gun case. It would make him the latest in a string of rappers to go to jail after rising to fame. For now, jail officials say only that they will assess the multiplatinum-selling Lil Wayne as they do every other new arrival and find an appropriate place for him among the city's roughly 13,000 inmates. He might follow the path of rapper Foxy Brown, who spent about eight months in 2007 and 2008 in city jails on a probation violation. Because of threats against her, she was held largely in protective custody in a cell of her own, with access to a day room, said Horn. Defense lawyer Stacey Richman said she intends to ask for protective custody for Lil Wayne, as well as for attention to dental problems that postponed his sentencing by two weeks. Some jail officials prefer to hold even famous convicts in circumstances as ordinary as possible - a desire the inmates sometimes share.
