Lil Wayne was in a New York courtroom on Tuesday (December 15), where a judge set a February 9th date for the rapper to be sentenced in his gun case, and begin serving his jail sentence.

Weezy (real name: Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr.) pleaded guilty attempted criminal possession of a weapon in October, stemming from a 2007 arrest following a Manhattan concert.

It was part of a plea deal, where the rapper would receive one year in jail, instead of a minimum 3 1/2 years that the charge usually carries.

In July 2007, police found a .40-caliber handgun on his tour bus after police pulled him over.

At the time of the plea agreement, Wayne's lawyer, Stacey Richman, told MTV News that the gun police found on the bus was purchased by Wayne's manager, Cortez Bryant, who had a legal permit to carry the weapon in Mississippi.

On the music side of things, Lil Wayne's long-awaited Rebirth album is set to drop February 1.