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TMZ confirmed that rapper Lil & # 39; Wayne, 34, had canceled his Sunday night show in Las Vegas after being hospitalized for seizures.
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Lil Wayne is trying to end his life.

When rapper – born Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. – was 12 years old, he shot himself in his mother 's house in New Orleans, barely missing his heart.

Lil Wayne, 35, has always claimed that the gunshot wound he inflicted was an accident until he recently admitted to an anonymous track of his next album "Tha Carter V" that it was a suicide attempt, according to him. new cover in Billboard magazine.

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The confession was not originally part of the song, but Lil Wayne said that he had added new lyrics after the suicides of designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain.

"He once told me that he was ready to deal with it now," said Mack Maine, president of Young Money Entertainment, at Billboard. "Just being an adult, reaching a level of maturity and comfort where he is," I want to talk about it because I know that a lot of people here may be going through this. "

The father of four told the magazine that he pulled the trigger after his mother said he could not rap again. He tackled filming in his music before.

His 2015 song, "London Roads," includes the lyrics: "Mrs. Cita / I remember goin 'in your gun drawer / Putin' at the chest and miss my heart / Oh Lord "

The long-awaited album "Tha Carter V" is expected to come out this fall.

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