8/22/2011 2:18 PM PDT BY TMZ STAFF

Lil Wayne
I'm Bandaged Up
And Ready for Some Football

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He took a lickin' ... like a lollipop ... but Lil Wayne kept on tickin' after his skateboard crash this morning -- signing autographs and talking football AFTER he had 9 stitches put in his head.

As we previously reported, Weezy wrecked pretty hard at a St. Louis skateboard park and his entourage rushed him to a nearby hospital ... where doctors put him back together again. 

Hours after the injury, Wayne was in pretty good spirits -- and outside his hotel, dude even predicted his Green Bay Packers would repeat as NFL champs.


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