Rapper Lil Wayne arrived at Rikers Island in New York City on Tuesday to begin serving a one-year jail term on a weapons conviction.

Wayne, 27, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., chose not to speak at his sentencing on Monday, the New York Post reports. With good behavior, he could be out of prison in eight months.

After initially pleading not guilty to gun possession after a July 2007 arrest, Wayne changed his plea to guilty in October in exchange for a reduced 12-month sentence.

Wayne had had his sentencing postponed twice in the past month – once so he could have dental work done, and once because of a fire in the courthouse basement.

He recently tried to put his ordeal in perspective, telling Rolling Stone: “I look at things as ‘Everything is meant to be.’ I know it’s an experience that I need to have if God’s putting me through it.”

As if Lil Wayne’s “Rebirth” wasn’t shaping up as planned before, a pre-order blunder has seriously marred its release even moreso today. Amazon accidentally shipped around 500 copies of the oft-delayed album to pre-order customers this week — even though the release date was pushed back to February.

Universal Motown and Cash Money Records have claimed they needed more setup time on the set; speculation also indicates that the famous hip-hop artist had yet to settle on a final tracklist after initial impressions of leaked tracks and first single “Prom Queen” came back mixed. The retailer nor the label had no comment to Billboard when the error was discovered.

The release date for the rock-and-rap experiment has moved at least six times this year, most recently from Dec. 22 to Feb. 1. The new single “On Fire” has only recently began building in sales through digital retailers.

Not that we condone it, but: Look for a leak of the Amazon version on an Internet near you.

All this, and on the day that Lil Wayne got more bad news: it was announced that he’s due in court on Feb. 9 for sentencing in his gun possession conviction. He faces a year in jail as part of his plea bargain.

Lil Wayne’s first rock-themed album “Rebirth” has got an official tracklisting which is obtained via Amazon U.K. site. Twelve songs appear on the list with Eminem, Kevin Rudolf, Nicki Minaj and Shanell set to lend their vocal.

The album is slated to be released across United States on December 21. It will be made available for purchase as a single disc, not paired with Young Money’s compilation album “We Are Young Money” as it was previously claimed.

“Prom Queen”, the first single off the record, has been released since late January. Featuring heavy use of Auto-Tune, the song rose to number 15 on Billboard Hot 100 and charted at number 16 on Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles despite its rock genre.

Beside prepping to release his own album, Lil Wayne has also hit studio with “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester, collaborating in a song called “Make It Rain”.

“Rebirth” tracklisting:

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