As the most hopelessly generic rapper in the entire blinking world, Lil Wayne has a number of responsibilities to uphold.

And, to be fair, Lil Wayne is doing a noble job at sticking to them – like the one about all his songs being exactly identical, the one about giving said songs unpleasant names like Prostitute Flange and the one about constantly getting arrested.

Especially that last one, because Lil Wayne has just been arrested for riding around in a tour bus so stuffed with drugs that he had to poke his head out of the sunroof to breathe. Or something.

Now that Busta Rhymes has accepted a plea deal to keep him out of jail like a woman or infant would, hip-hop needs a new hero – a hero who isn't afraid to break the law again and again like a dough-brained spazwit. And, ladies and gentlemen, that man is Lil Wayne.

Oh you know who Lil Wayne is. He had that song about prostitutes' flanges. And he got arrested for smoking drugs in a car that had a gun in it. And he was an actual fugitive for a while. No? It's primarily the prostitute flange aspect of Lil Wayne's life that you chose to remember? Well suit yourselves.

Anyway, the big news is that Lil Wayne's been arrested for having a tour bus jammed to the gills with drugs. OK, maybe not the big news. But it's still news. Probably. Reuters has written about it so it must be news:

Rapper Lil Wayne was arrested for felony drug possession early on Wednesday when his charter bus was stopped at a California-Arizona border checkpoint, authorities said. Lil Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., was arrested in southwestern Arizona on suspicion of possessing cocaine and ecstasy, as well as drug paraphernalia, authorities said. He was being held in Yuma County Jail on a $10,185 bond.

All in all, after a sniffer dog signalled that Lil Wayne's bus may have contained drugs, police recovered 105 grams of marijuana, 29 grams of cocaine, 41 grams of ecstasy, more than $22,000 and a gun. It sounds like a lot when it's listed one after the other like that, but it's not really – mix it all up in a bucket and Amy Winehouse would probably plough through it in about three or four seconds or so.

But anyway, the important thing is that Lil Wayne has been arrested for it. And while there's a chance that the ensuing punishment might hurt him personally, it's obvious that Lil Wayne's gangsta credentials are going to go through the bloody roof. After all, this arrest means that Lil Wayne is now as furiously street as Willie Nelson. Willie effing Nelson! 

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Rapper Lil Wayne arrested for drug possession – Reuters