@ Amazing.Lee:

My bad, I always thought you were a new TGJ visitor! I was just thinking to myself "I haven't seen Team Weezy in ages..."

Yeah, to be honest, I think he is so caught up in going down as a legend in the same vein as a rock star that I kind of think he's deliberately hurting himself so he can die early and become a musical martyr (see: Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Tupac, Biggie Smalls).