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By ERRIN HAINES and HARRY R. WEBER – 1 hour ago
ATLANTA (AP) — Rapper T.I. was expected to plead guilty Thursday to federal weapons charges and will face prison time, according to two people familiar with his case.
The 27-year-old singer, whose real name is Clifford Harris, was expected to be sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service talking to youth groups around the country, followed by about 12 months in prison, according to two people familiar with the negotiations who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plea deal had not been finalized yet Thursday morning.
His prison time could be increased or reduced, depending on his fulfillment of the terms of the deal and good behavior, they said. His talks to youth groups are supposed to be about the pitfalls of guns, gangs and drugs.
The U.S. Attorney in Atlanta announced a change-of-plea hearing was scheduled Thursday afternoon at the federal courthouse. Prosecution officials were expected to speak to the media after the hearing.
U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. must approve the deal.
Harris was arrested Oct. 13, just blocks away and hours before he was to headline the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta.
He was charged with possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers, as well as possession of firearms by a convicted felon. He faced a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count.
Harris was allegedly trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers. He initially pleaded not guilty, and has been under house arrest since he was released on $3 million bond Oct. 26.
He is co-CEO of Grand Hustle Records and one of Atlantic Records' most successful artists.
Harris grew up in Atlanta. His first taste of success came with his 2003 album, "Trap Muzik." In 2004, warrants were issued for his arrest on probation violations for a drug conviction, and he was sentenced to three years behind bars.
His sixth album, "T.I. vs. T.I.P.," was released July 3 and debuted at No. 1.
He co-starred in the 2007 film "American Gangster" with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.
if your a TI fan, good news ;D
lets pray to god the judge approves 8)
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Let's hope he gets life :)
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Let's hope he gets life ;)
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Why in hell is he suddenly only getting like a few months?
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i knew some haters would be mad (not u 7even) :D face it..whether y'all like it or not he pretty much beat the case..major success for him..wont negatively affect his career at all
7even: i got no clue how this happened lol
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they probally felt that 3 million bond was punishment enough :P jk....damn thats messed up...money talks tho i guess...only 12 months (possibly) and prodigy gets 3 years for one lil pistol and this dude has a shitload of machine guns and silencers lol....i aint no hater but damn dudes getting a slap on the wrist compared to what i thought he was gonna get (decades in jail i figured lol), speakin of prodigy i wonder when the fuck his albums gonna leak...i wanna hear that shit bad 8)....btw props Luni
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I hope so. T.I. has become my one my favorite artist so I'd hate to see him get life (even tho his stupidass deserves it). I can deal with a year.
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I hope so. T.I. has become my one my favorite artist so I'd hate to see him get life (even tho his stupidass deserves it). I can deal with a year.
But then only serve about 4-6 months of it. Yer i could deal with that.
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I hope so. T.I. has become my one my favorite artist so I'd hate to see him get life (even tho his stupidass deserves it). I can deal with a year.
Fuck ya im happy, damn i didnt wanna see Tip go out like that. He has become 1 of my fav southern rappers aswell. Hopefully he gets this shit over n done with quickly and gets back in the game!!!
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Let's hope he gets life :)
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Let's hope he gets life :)
already been sentenced to a year and one day a year from today..and he'll likely get 15% of that knocked off..T.I. beat this shit :laugh:
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DAM, THAT SUCKS
2 BAD HE DIDNT GET MORE JAIL TIME,
HOPEFULLY HE GETS SOME DISEASE N COMES OUT CRIPPLED
DPGC23
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DAM, THAT SUCKS
2 BAD HE DIDNT GET MORE JAIL TIME,
HOPEFULLY HE GETS SOME DISEASE N COMES OUT CRIPPLED
DPGC23
hater much? :laugh:
4 straight platinum albums and counting 8)
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good news. it always puts a smile on my face when someone beats a case of this magnitude. hopefully the bodyguard that snitched gets hit wit bullets from an automatic strap wit a silencer
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good news. it always puts a smile on my face when someone beats a case of this magnitude. hopefully the bodyguard that snitched gets hit wit bullets from an automatic strap wit a silencer
:laugh:
im shittin my pants right now if im that bodyguard..shit didnt go down as he expected..2 bad mutha fucka, nice try.
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DAM, THAT SUCKS
2 BAD HE DIDNT GET MORE JAIL TIME,
HOPEFULLY HE GETS SOME DISEASE N COMES OUT CRIPPLED
DPGC23
damn...
anywayz, that's good for T.I. then... definatly could be alot worse
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the only explanation for the slap on the wrist is dry snitchin
he went out like Mike Vick
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the only explanation for the slap on the wrist is dry snitchin
he went out like Mike Vick
there aint no proof of that. He was the one being snitched ON, he was the prize. When y'all ever seen the victim of a snitch be asked to snitch?
c'mon now, some of y'all make me laugh (not just u West coast, i seen bunch of ppl claiming this).
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Let's hope he gets life :)
already been sentenced to a year and one day a year from today..and he'll likely get 15% of that knocked off..T.I. beat this shit :laugh:
like you said, this is pretty much a miracle sentence, compared to what was originally speculated.
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Let's hope he gets life :)
already been sentenced to a year and one day a year from today..and he'll likely get 15% of that knocked off..T.I. beat this shit :laugh:
like you said, this is pretty much a miracle sentence, compared to what was originally speculated.
definitely
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LOL 6 months? haha...glad to hear that tho...i only like a handful of southern rappers and t.i. is DEFINATLY on that list. whens dat new album coming? lol.
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Let's hope he gets life :)
hahaah U Mad? Don't be a hater Mauzip.
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good for him
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NAW MAN HAHA
NO HATER
I JUST DONT APPRECIATE SOMEONE SAYIN ALL LATINS SHOULD GO BAK 2 THEIR COUNTRY AND WAIT 4 THE PROPER PAPER WORK 2 GO THRU, AKA ILLIGAL IMMIGRANTS, WHICH IS COOL, EVERYONE HAS THEIR OPINIONS, NO BIG DEAL. BUT WHEN HE GOT CONFRONTED, HE HAD HIS SPOKSMAN SAY NOO, THAS NOT WHA HE MEANT, ETC ETC,
HE SHOULDVE BEEN THE 1
ALL GOOD THO, ALL WE CAN WISH 4 IS HE GET SENT 2 CALI PRISON N THE M M M M M M CHIN CHECK EM B4 HE GETS OUT
N AFTER A YR, ITLL B ALL GOOD
DPGC23
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real talk...TI is a snitch.
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hope he doesn't get caught up wit dis katt...lol...
http://www.youtube.com/v/077UtUWGQOA&autoplay=0
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^^ haha thats some crazy shit
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LMAO HE ONLY GOT 1 YEAR. THATS BS
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LMAO HE ONLY GOT 1 YEAR. THATS BS
hes a lucky dude, hopefully he learned from his mistake and wont get caught next time.
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Snitch. No doubt about it. How can you get caught with all those guns and get one year? Thats nonsense.
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LMAO HE ONLY GOT 1 YEAR. THATS BS
hes a lucky dude, hopefully he learned from his mistake and wont get caught next time.
:D LOL
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hope he doesn't get caught up wit dis katt...lol...
http://www.youtube.com/v/077UtUWGQOA&autoplay=0
Thats easily the most disturbing / disgusting thing I've heard in my 20 year career.
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hope he doesn't get caught up wit dis katt...lol...
http://www.youtube.com/v/077UtUWGQOA&autoplay=0
HAHAHAHAHAHA, yo holy shit, thats the funniest shit ive watched in awhile LMFAO, +1!!!
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In this week's Speak On It forum everyone has an opinion about T.I. getting off easy, Tupac & Notorious B.I.G do battle in another bi-coastal clash, Athletes with skills on the mic.
[Editor Note: The views of this column do not necessarily reflect those of SOHH.com]
Snitch?
With the recent revelation that T.I. will be sentence
d to one year in prison and 1500 hours of community service, SOHH forum users are asking, "Did T.I. snitch to get a light sentence?"
Stillz thinks so, "Let's be real, T.I. could barely afford bail money. He needed money from his record label to post bail. I think it was a milly and he didn't have it."
Meanwhile DominicanKid disagrees, "No. Social class > race. And T.I seems like a smart guy."
lmao@ the bail money :D
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Let's hope he gets life :)
wow hate to another level.
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Good for T.I. that he isn't broke and a nobody, othervise he would be doing the maximum sentence like Remy Ma is going to do soon. If he gets the jail sentence, he's not going to toss Big Dick Bubba's salad because he'll be send to unit reserved for celebrities and ex-cops.
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In this week's Speak On It forum everyone has an opinion about T.I. getting off easy, Tupac & Notorious B.I.G do battle in another bi-coastal clash, Athletes with skills on the mic.
[Editor Note: The views of this column do not necessarily reflect those of SOHH.com]
Snitch?
With the recent revelation that T.I. will be sentence
d to one year in prison and 1500 hours of community service, SOHH forum users are asking, "Did T.I. snitch to get a light sentence?"
Stillz thinks so, "Let's be real, T.I. could barely afford bail money. He needed money from his record label to post bail. I think it was a milly and he didn't have it."
Meanwhile DominicanKid disagrees, "No. Social class > race. And T.I seems like a smart guy."
lmao@ the bail money :D
this is FALSE. T.I. actually posted his bail without problems which was actually about 3 million dollars. The label OFFERED to put up an ADDITIONAL million or two to try and get him released one week early. This was DENIED and T.I. remained in prison for another week until the judge granted his release with ONLY the 3 million that T.I. paid HIMSELF.
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forbes magazine listed T.I's earnings for last year at 20 million. im sure he did not have a problem posting bail
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forbes magazine listed T.I's earnings for last year at 20 million. im sure he did not have a problem posting bail
exactly
last two years
KING MONEY - over 2 million sold
ATL MONEY - made a whole lotta cash for its budget
TI VS TIP MONEY - over 1 million sold
AMERICAN GANGSTER MONEY - enough said i think
GRAND HUSTLE MONEY - young dro going gold, Drama selling a few hundred K
who are they trying to fool?
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forbes magazine listed T.I's earnings for last year at 20 million. im sure he did not have a problem posting bail
if you spend most of your money buyin cars,houses,dope and jewels.....20 millions are not enough
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how much do u think a mansion in atlanta costs? peanuts compared to what we spend on houses in the bay area my shit is 3.1 million and its only 5,000 sq ft i could buy shaq's house in fl for that price
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My homie just told me that judge gave TI 35 years or some shit whats the news??
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i thought it was 1 year???^
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i thought it was 1 year???^
its 1 year and he aint serving it for another year; he's practically a free man right now (has a curfew and comm service)
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Syrup or jelly, muhfucka.
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re: the video... the best part is when that dude says "So... toss my salad, let him eat me, you know, we straight, that's it!"
LMAO, what movie or documentary was that from, btw?
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As SOHH previously reported, T.I. (born Clifford Harris, Jr.) agreed to a plea deal last week - instead of going to trial on federal gun charges - ordering the rapper to 1,500 hours of community service, a fine, a year in prison, up to 3 years probation and a year on house arrest.
But according to T.I.'s lawyer, Steve Sadow, the rapper is not technically under house arrest.
"He is in what we call a home detention program which means that he has a curfew," Sadow clarified.
Sadow explained that when he's not working, T.I.'s curfew is from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m and when he is working it's 1 a.m. to 8 a.m.
"Between the hours that the curfew doesn't apply, he is free to go and do anything, basically," Sadow revealed. "But he has a full time monitor with him and he has to get permission to go out of town and permission is given for work or community service."
The self proclaimed "King of the South" has already spent about five months on house arrest since the end of October, when he was released from jail on $3 million bond. Sadow told SOHH that those 5 months will count towards the year of house arrest Tip was ordered to serve.
The time he's doing right now under curfew will also partially count. According to Sadow the nights that T.I. actually sleeps at his house will be added to the tally. Yet if the rapper gets permission to travel out of town for a week for community service, the clock stops for those seven days.
Sadow hopes the rapper will finish a majority of his time by March before he heads to jail.
"That's our hope, unless of course his travel out of town for work or community service takes up more than 5 months," Sadow said.
If he's able to log a whole year of house arrest before he goes into jail for the year he was sentenced to, he will walk out of the slammer a free man. He'll only be under supervised release, which is a form of probation, for three years thereafter.
Of the 1,500 hours of community service Tip has to log, 1,000 has to be done within the first month. He was also hit with a $100,000 fine which has to be paid at or before his official sentencing in March of 2009.
Fans and critics alike have reacted to the ruling, saying Tip got a sweet deal. To this, Sadow says his client will adequately pay for his crime.
"First, he is going to jail for a substantial period of time," he said. "Second, it is the best way for him to give back to the community and that was very important in negotiations."
The rapper's already in high demand with requests coming in to have him speak to youth groups less than 24 hours after the plea deal was announced.
"Very few entertainment artists, hip-hop, rap or otherwise can get through to at-risk youth and fans like T.I. can," Sadow continued. "And it's important for him to get out the right message that these kids don't wanna live their life like he has. They don't wanna go through what he has gone through. He's a living example of what can go wrong,"