Sibelius seemed to provide ammunition for the views of his critics by a few careless remarks. He said to his pupil Bengt von Trne (1937): I write piano pieces in my spare moments ... as a matter of fact the piano does not interest me because it cannot sing..
In March 2010, Lil Wayne began serving an 8-month jail sentence in New York after being convicted of criminal possession of a weapon stemming from an incident in July 2007. Wayne's eighth album I Am Not a Human Being (2010), was released during his incarceration.
Rapper Lil' Boosie released from prison. Lil Boosie appears onstage during a taping of MTV's Sucker Free at MTV studios in Times Square on Jan. 23, 2007, in New York. Rapper Lil' Boosie has been released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where he had been serving an eight-year sentence on drug charges. Warden Burl Cain says the 31-year-old rapper -- whose real name is Torrence Hatch -- left the prison just after 7 p.m. Wednesday. Cain said Hatch remains on supervised parole until 2018. Hatch first arrived at Angola in 2009 after pleading guilty to a third-offense marijuana possession charge.