Lil Wayne and Wiley were both killed off by a hoax website this weekend, designed to look like the BBC News site. In separate stories, Lil Wayne was said to have been shot dead during a gang fight in New Orleans between rival gangs the Crips and Bloods, while Wiley was said to have been stabbed in a similar altercation. I haven't seen the Wiley story but the giveaway in the Lil Wayne story, apart from the fact that the Crips and Bloods are LA-based gangs, was the link to a video of Thames Valley Police's statement on the shooting.
Wiley posted a message to fans on his MySpace blog with the heading "I AM NOT DEAD!" and just to make sure no one was in any doubt, his manager also told Tim Westwood on Radio 1: "Wiley's totally okay, he just said to say, 'I'm in the studio, recording a new tune'. Knowing Wiley, he'll probably make a tune about it. We've had people crying today about this situation and I think that that's really sad. It is upsetting but I just believe the person who's done it is obviously a sad individual to be putting such rumours like that out there".
Lil Wayne has not commented, but Perez Hilton told the world on his blog: "Lil Wayne is not dead. Repeat: not dead". And if Perez says so, it is so.