The bus driver accusing Lil Wayne for pulling a gun on him in Upstate New York is speaking out about the rapper he’s known for more than 15 years. Hit the jump to see what he has to say.
“He’s not that kind of person,” Mark Jones of national tour bus company How We Roll told syracuse.com in a phone interview. “I don’t know where that came from
Jones sued the 33-year-old rapper earlier this year over an incident on the Thruway during a co-headlining tour with Drake last summer.
Jones claims Weezy, as the hip-hop star is also known, threatened to kill him after a concert at the Darien Lake Performing Arts Center when he stopped to get gas in Buffalo en route to the next day’s show in Indiana.
According to TMZ, the lawsuit accuses Lil Wayne of cursing on the bus, threatening to pistol-whip Jones, and encouraging him to fight several times. The Grammy winner allegedly cocked a gun and pointed it at Jones from close range, telling everyone else on the bus to back up and demanding to be taken to his hotel “now.”
Jones, who’s been driving for the Young Money and Cash Money record labels (also known as YMCMB) since 1999, tells syracuse.com the rapper may have been high on drugs at the time.
“Sometimes the asshole in him comes out,” Jones said.
He wants to act like a thug, Jones added.
wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr., served a year in prison in 2010 after being caught with a semiautomatic weapon on his tour bus in 2007. Jones says he was driving that bus and was arrested, but didn’t know about the weapon at the time.
Jones, who grew up in New York and lives in Maryland, says he’s been arrested seven times while driving tour buses.
Jones, seeking unspecified damages for false imprisonment, assault and emotional distress, said he waited until after the tour was over to file his lawsuit. TMZ reported earlier this week that the pair had reached a settlement — though Jones disagrees with the celebrity gossip site’s figure of $75,000 — but the “Lollipop” hitmaker hadn’t paid yet and a second lawsuit was filed. image
Jones said he hasn’t driven for Carter since last summer’s alleged death threat, but still drives tour buses for YMCMB artists like Birdman, Lil Wayne’s mentor. He says he might’ve gone back to work for Weezy if he apologized, as they’ve known each other a long time.
“I was there before his first album,” Jones said. “I was there when his daughter came home from the hospital.”
