Entertainer Lil Wayne smiles before the start of the second half of an NBA basketball game between New Orleans Hornets and the Miami Heat in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter Jr., was freed on Friday after serving eight months in a gun case. Asked how it felt to be back, Wayne told the The Times-Picayune: "Like I never left."
Before his incarceration, the rapper recorded the recently released "I Am Not a Human Being," a top debut on Billboard album charts.
The newspaper said the rapper flew earlier to Yuma County, Arizona, to check in for a three-year stint of unsupervised probation for a drug conviction.
Authorities said that case will be transferred to Florida, where the New Orleans native now lives.
