This week, Lil Wayne’s album Tha Carter III knocked Coldplay’s  “Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends” from the top of the U.S. pop charts, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album has also sold 1.68 million copies in four weeks of its release. But just as the rapper was celebrating his success, according to several reports, he was arrested Thursday night by New Orleans police when he got into a nightclub fight with local New Orleans rapper Lil Dee. Weezy’s camp are keeping reports of the incident under wraps but according to unconfirmed reports and eyewitnesses both rappers were arrested and Lil Wayne was found with unregistered handguns. Check Bet.com Music for updates on this story.

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