Big Shit Poppin:
• An impending illegal weapons trial
• Lots of press about said trial and arrest
• A very strict bond agreement confining T.I. to his house and limiting his visitors.
• American Gangster’s in theaters!
Little Shit Stoppin:
• T.I.’s request for a Thanksgiving feast at his home.
• If this is a beautiful face, then I’m Neferiti…or Cleopatra. Either one works. []
• Trey Songz was arrested. We’d all care more if he was just a little more famous. Still sucks, though. [AHH]
• And they say our credit’s bad? []
• Prince and his lawyers love to sue, and his fans are starting to get pissed. [PH]
• Protesters continue to picket outside the BET execs’ houses, and the New York Times just noticed. [NYT]
Good news for T-Pain: His hit single “Buy You A Drank” is the best-selling ringtone of the year!
Bad news for T-Pain: He’s in a Tallahassee jail due to outstanding warrants.
Bittersweet news for T-Pain: At least it’s not a Tallahassee boot camp. [AHH]
Atlanta jails are starting to look like the audience at a hip hop awards show. Da Brat got a little rowdy last night — smashing a bottle of rum into a waitress’s face — and then got a little arrested. Funny how that works.
Witnesses told police the incident started with an argument between Harris, 33, and a waitress at Studio 72, a club owned by Jermaine Dupri, the Atlanta record producer and rapper.
The argument escalated to shoving, witnesses said; then Harris is accused of grabbing a bottle of rum and hitting the waitress in the face. The victim was taken to the hospital with cuts on her face and above her eye.
Harris is being held at the DeKalb County jail.
New VH1 reality show idea: Celebrity Probation Club. [WSBTV]
In the most shocking celebrity arrest of 2007, Amy Winehouse was nabbed by police in Norway for marijuana possession. Marijuana? That’s embarrassingly tame. She must have already used up all the crack and heroin by the time the cops came.
[MG]
The Atlanta-Journal Constitution has some photos of what feds found in T.I.’s house and car. When did T.I., who was denied bail, have his last live performance? We should probably savor that moment, since it’s looking like that’s the last we will see of him for the next, oh, 10 or so years.
[AJC]
• Yung Joc continues trying to have a a hit as big as “It’s Goin’ Down.” [PE]
• Black women in South Carolina struggle to choose their favorite presidential candidates and administer relaxers at the same time. [NYT]
• Jamie Foxx is a sad clown. [SP]
• If Tiny is really pregnant, and I hope she’s not, considering her boyfriend’s current situation, then whose marijuana and Ecstasy was she carrying when T.I. got arrested? [SR]
• Speaking of T.I. he was just denied bail. Tough break. [AHH]
Was it a calculated move for the feds to arrest T.I. before he was set to perform at the BET Hip Hop Awards (and subsequently win some top honors), thus humiliating the rapper and ruining a well-planned show? Probably. Would we have a lot more to complain about if the authorities hadn’t actually found a shitload of evidence that T.I. was trying to illegally buy machine guns with silencers? Definitely.
It is a serious crime with potentially serious jail time, compounded by the fact that Harris, a convicted felon, cannot own any firearms, let alone the ones that the feds accuse him of buying, or the three they allegedly found in his car, or the ones they say were tucked in his bedroom safe that used a fingerprint scan for access.
Saturday, a few hours before the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta bestowed upon him the “Best CD of the Year” award, Harris, 27, might also have earned himself up to 10 years in federal prison. His first court appearance on the weapons charges is Monday afternoon.
Also busted in the sting — Young Dro, Mac Boney, and T.I.’s girlfriend Tiny, who was arrested for possession of marijuana and Ecstasy. The AJC has all the sorry, sorry details.
I guess Lil Kim figured that if Foxy Brown did it, why can’t she? She may have failed to realize that Foxy is now languishing in Rikers Island with a jacked up weave because of (among many, many other things) the recent lies she fed the cops.
When Kim got pulled over late last week for driving around a Lamborghini with no plates, she tried to talk her way out of it the only way a Brooklyn-raised female rapper knows how.
Kim’s story changed once more when she told police that she was actually licensed to drive in New Jersey but forgot her license. Turns out she’s not licensed anywhere.
During the incident, said the source, Kim stayed calm and cool, but when cameras showed up, whoa Nelly! “She became belligerent, loud and obnoxious. She proclaimed that if she was the average person, this wouldn’t have been a problem.” Since when is driving without a valid license or license plates not a problem?
So I wonder what Kim’s probation status is right now? If she violated it with this stunt, I bet she and Foxy Brown could share a cell!
[TMZ]
Eve’s SCRAM, which was a present from the judge in her DUI case, ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Plus, it’s totally does not go with leopard-print peeptoes.
She’s been wearing her alcohol monitoring device for a month, but Eve said she can’t get used to the hefty ankle bracelet.
“It’s the most annoying thing,” she told PEOPLE Tuesday night at Tao Nightclub in Las Vegas. “When they told me I was getting it on, I thought it was going to be like a beeper, but it’s like a pair of Bose headphones.”
I’m sure it is annoying. Almost as annoying as it would have been if you had drunkenly crashed into a person with your gold Maserati instead of a highway divider.
[People]
