STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: Fellow rapper Drake and other friends set up vigil outside his room
- "I'm good everybody," Lil Wayne writes on Twitter
- Lil Wayne suffers a seizure and "is recovering," his record label's publicist says
- Lil Wayne is a Grammy-winning and multiplatinum selling artist
The New Orleans artist arguably occupies the highest rungs of the hip-hop world, but he shares them with fellow rapper Drake, who hails from Toronto.
Drake appeared at the Los Angeles hospital, where Lil Wayne is being treated, with an entourage of Wayne's friends. They pulled up chairs in the hallway near his room and set up a vigil.
Twitter has lit up with rumors, spreading fears of the worst for Wayne's outcome, but a Tweet in his name attempted to calm the tempest.
"I'm good everybody," read a message from Lil Wayne's Twitter account. "Thnx for the prayers and love."
While acknowledging a medical issue, members of the New Orleans' artist's camp have shot down reports that he was near death.
"Dont believe the nonsense about comas and tubes to breathe ... that's false!!" tweeted Mack Maine, the president of Lil Wayne's Young Money label, around 5:20 p.m. (8:20 p.m. ET) Friday.
Sarah Cunningham, a publicist with the Young Money record label, acknowledged that Lil Wayne had a seizure.
The public relations department at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Los Angeles hospital where the rapper is reportedly being treated, did not confirm or deny that Lil Wayne is there, per its policy.
Maine didn't offer much detail, though he did say that he and Lil Wayne had been watching the Syracuse University Orange play Georgetown in the Big East men's basketball tournament.
"Wayne is alive and well!" the record label president wrote on Twitter.
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