20 Twitter users that would probably feel really guilty if Lil Wayne died
by Aaron Zorgel
March 18, 2013
When the news of Lil Wayne’s latest health scare broke, it sparked a wide range of emotional reactions from his family, friends, colleagues, and followers. On Friday afternoon, TMZ reported that Lil Wayne had been hospitalized and was critical condition after suffering multiple seizures. Doctors are said to have found high levels of codeine in his system, which could be the cause of the seizures.
TMZ depicted a pretty grim scene, putting “several people…at Wayne’s bedside crying” with Wayne in restraints due to violent shaking, and in a section which has since been deleted, they suggested he was being read his last rites. Pretty scary, right?
Some of his friends and colleagues took to Twitter to express their concern, and offer him their support:
A few of Wayne’s pals had a different reaction, and lashed out at TMZ for mishandling the story, and printing false information:
After a nervous hour or two of every Tunechi fan on the planet refreshing Twitter every six seconds, Lil Wayne posted a message from his account, assuring everyone that he’s “good”:
It looks like Lil Wayne’s health is stabilizing, but that doesn’t make this whole ordeal any less traumatizing. There was a good hour or so on Friday night where I was fully prepared to set up a Weezy shrine, and start mourning. When I first saw the tweets from TMZ, I got that nervous, sinking feeling in my gut. There’s no denying Wayne when he’s at his best, but recently, he hasn’t been. I’ve done nothing but trash him at every turn. Sure, the quality of his output has fallen off in recent years, but as soon as someone’s life is hanging in the balance, you start to think about how things would change if they were suddenly taken away. I didn’t want the last thing I wrote about Wayne while he was alive to be negative. I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to that mangled, chrome-toothed smile. Some of his fans and followers shared my feelings on the subject. Some chalked it up as a publicity stunt to drum up some press leading up to the March 26th release of I Am Not A Human Being 2. And to be fair, Mack Maine even released a single featuring Lil Wayne the very next day.
In true vicious Internet fashion, some Twitter users took the opportunity to make tasteless, unfunny jokes ab out Wayne’s seizures. Here are twenty tweets that probably would have been hurriedly deleted if the news came through that he’d succumbed to his health issues in the hospital that night.
Get well soon, Weezy. I hope I Am Not A Human Being 2 is good, so I can break this cycle of mercilessly trashing 100% of his post-2010 output. Uh-oh. There’s that nervous, sinking feeling again.
