Rapper Lil Wayne suffers seizure

 

Rapper Lil Wayne performs onstage during the 2008 BET Awards.

Rappers Lil Wayne, left, and Lil Jon perform during the seventh annual BMI Urban Awards held at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino on September 7, 2007, in Las Vegas.

Rapper Lil Wayne, left, congratulates Kanye West on his Best Male Hip Hop Artist win onstage during the 2008 BET Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on June 24, 2008, in Los Angeles. Rapper Lil Wayne performs onstage during his "I Am Music" Tour at the Gibson Amphitheater on March 29, 2009, in Universal City, California. Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj perform during Minaj's Pink Friday Tour at Roseland in New York on August 14, 2012, Lil Wayne and Baby AKA Birdman watch the New Jersey Nets play the Miami Heat during the NBA playo Lil Wayne sings "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch as the San Francisco Giants took on the St. Louis Cardinals during the National League Championship Series in 2012. Singer Chris Brown, left, and Lil Wayne embrace onstage during the 2011 BET Awa Lil Wayne and hip-hop artist Drake, left, sit courtside during the 2012 NBA All-Star Game. Lil Wayne performs onstage during the Hot 97 Summer Jam in 2Los Angeles (CNN) -- Grammy-winning and multiplatinum-selling rapper Lil Wayne suffered a seizure and "is recovering," his record label's publicist said Friday.

"I'm good everybody," read a message on Lil Wayne's Twitter account. "Thnx for the prayers and love."

While acknowledging a medical issue, members of the New Orleans' artist's camp shot down reports that he was near death.

"Dont believe the nonsense about comas and tubes to breathe ... that's false!!" tweeted Mack Maine, the president of Lil Wayne's Young Money label, around 5:20 p.m. (8:20 p.m. ET) Friday.

Sarah Cunningham, a publicist with the Young Money record label, acknowledged that Lil Wayne had a seizure.

The public relations department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Los Angeles hospital where the rapper is reportedly being treated, did not confirm or deny that Lil Wayne is there, per its policy.

Maine didn't offer much detail, though he did say that he and Lil Wayne had been watching the Syracuse University Orange play Georgetown in the Big East men's basketball tournament.

"Wayne is alive and well!" the record label president wrote on Twitter.

The rapper's independent publicist, Kia Selby, said only, "Lil Wayne is doing well." She strongly denied reports he was in a medically induced coma, as reported by TMZ.

Born Dwayne Carter, Lil Wayne is one of the rap world's most successful artists. He won best rap album for "Tha Carter III" at the 2008 Grammy awards, and took home three more Grammys the following year.

Beyond winning over critics, he's also been a commercial success. Last September, Billboard reported the rapper had tallied 109 hits on its Hot 100, surpassing the record previously held by Elvis Presley.

But he's also run into trouble outside the studio and stage.

Lil Wayne was arrested in 2007 outside New York City's Beacon Theater after police said they found a .40-caliber pistol on his tour bus. He ended up pleading guilty to felony gun charges and spending eight months at New York's Rikers Island jail.

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