LIL WAYNE: ‘POT SMELL IS A PROPERTY SELLING POINT’
Rapper LIL WAYNE has laughed off reports he’s struggling to offload one o= f his apartments in Miami, Florida because it stinks of marijuana, insist= ing the odour has instead proved to be a unique selling point.
The Lollipop hitmaker placed a three-bedroom, two bathroom South Beach = condominium on the market for $520,000 (=C2=A3325,000) late last year (09= ).
Real estate dealers had to warn prospective buyers about the strong pot= smell prior to showing the apartment, according to the New York Post.
One source recalls of his visit, "A member of Wayne’s posse opened the = door to the overwhelming smell of marijuana. Two hot, rap-video-looking g= irls were walking around in nothing but a bra and underwear, blasting hip= -hop. We just went in and looked around and tried not to stare." But Wayne is convinced the overwhelming odour has not been a selling se= tback, even though the property has yet to be sold - because wealthy fans= have been flocking to the apartment to check out the place the rapper on= ce called home.
He says, "We’re not having trouble selling it… The people that (sic) = are coming to look at it like that (the marijuana smell) more about it. T= hat’s like waking in Bob Marley’s crib (home) and you still smelling weed= and his bed still messed up, and food still on the table (sic). You’re l= ike, ‘Leave all that s**t. I want to buy all that s**t.’" Wayne recently admitted he’d never given up his drug habit. He told Rol= ling Stone magazine, "I smoke weed all day. I’m a very successful addict.= And a smart one. And a very charismatic one." Prison-bound Wayne recently put his second luxury South Beach home up f= or sale for $2.8 million (=C2=A31.75 million).
The rapper is expected to be sentenced to a year behind bars for weapon= s possession when he appears in a New York court on 2 March (10). (MT/WNW=
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