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Lil Wayne has revealed how he recorded music during his prison sentence.

In 2010, Weezy served eight months behind bars at Rikers Island in New York on charges of criminal possession of a weapon.

During an episode of Lil Dicky, Benny Blanco and Kristin Batalucco’s Friends Keep Secrets podcast this week, the New Orleans rapper explained how he recorded music while locked up.

“I went to the studio every night in jail,” he said. “In my cell. That meant everybody be quiet. I’m about to beat on this damn table.”

Wayne had a bedtime of 10:45pm, but he would start his phone conversations just before so he could keep recording. “I would do it on purpose,” he said. “That’s why everyone’s gotta lock in. It was just me on the phone and [that way] I can actually record.”

When asked if it was the worst year of his life, he replied, “not at all,” citing special treatment due to his celebrity status.

“I have to give all of that thanks and credit to the people that were around me in there,” he said. “They made it their job to make it easy for me.”

Wayne went on to reveal that he passed the time by watching Naked and Afraid on the Discovery Channel.

“You think they’re watching it because a female is in there naked,” he said about his fellow prison inmates. “Nah, they know the storyline, they know everything.”

The sentence at Rikers Island stemmed from a 2007 incident, which saw police find a loaded .40-calibre handgun on his tour bus in Manhattan. He began his sentence in March 2010 and was released by November 2010.