The Lollipop hitmaker is said to have sent a proposal to a number of publishing houses in a bid to land a deal to release the autobiography.

In an extract obtained by TMZ.com, Lil Wayne appears to suggest he fell out with the Started From The Bottom rapper after they clashed over a love interest.

The book reportedly lifts the lid on the rapper's rise to fame, his career and his 2010 incarceration in New York's Rikers Island prison on gun possession charges.