T.I. is having more than one last hurrah.
The rapper – who’s going to prison for one year on May 26 for felony weapons charges – threw two shindigs over the weekend in Miami with Tyrese and Diddy. Prior to that, he partied in NYC, where he bade adieu to pals like Jay-Z and LL Cool J.
As for T.I.’s court-ordered probation officer? At the NYC fete, he was too busy “getting girls’ numbers” to pay attention to his charge!
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Rapper T.I. will be coming to Arkansas – to serve a federal prison sentence.
T.I., whose real name is Clifford J. Harris Jr., must report to Forrest City’s low-security federal prison by noon on May 26, according to court filings. There, Harris will join 1,500 other inmates as he serves a year-and-one-day prison sentence after pleading guilty in March to federal weapons charges in Atlanta.
The rapper, the self-proclaimed “King of the South,” had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each charge in his three-count indictment.
Harris will be credited for 305 days of home detention he already has served after being charged, so his stay at the Forrest City prison likely will be only two months.
R.D. Weeks, a spokesman for the prison, said Harris likely would be treated like any other prisoner coming into the facility.
“Unless there are custody or security concerns, all incoming inmates are placed in general population,” Weeks told The Associated Press.
Weeks said each cell at the prison is double-bunked. Harris also will have the opportunity to use the recreation yard, as well as take part in counseling or participate in the one of the facility’s 14 religious groups, Week said.
Harris, 28, was arrested after trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers from undercover federal agents in 2007. That came after Harris’ best friend was killed following a post-performance party in Cincinnati in 2006. The rapper has said the bullets that killed his friend were meant for him.
Upon his release, Harris will be on probation for three years. He also must pay a $100,000 fine as part of his sentence.
Harris’ sixth album, “Paper Trail,” has sold about 2 million copies and the rapper earned a Grammy for the song “Swagga Like Us” that he performed with Jay-Z. Harris wrote the lyrics for the album while awaiting trial.
Keyshia Cole sings the national anthem
Young Jeezy , T.I. and Nelly
Monica and Devyne Stephens
Young Jeezy, Jermaine Dupri and T.I.
Dominique Wilkins and Nelly
Rich Kidz and T.I.
J Dubb and Young Jeezy
T-Boz and Takeo Spikes
Music producer Polow Da Don
SPOILER alert – T.I.’s “Road to Redemption” ends with a bash. On Monday night, the jail-bound rapper partied it up at Lower East Side lounge the Eldridge with 50 of his closest pals for his final episode on the MTV show. DJ Berrie spun tracks for Nick Cannon and T.I.’s friends and family, who gathered together to bid him goodbye.
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RAPPER T.I. (above), who’s about to go to prison for a year after pleading guilty to federal weapons-possession charges, is leaning on the shoulder of his good friend, squeaky clean Will Smith. During filming of his new MTV series, “T.I.’s Road to Redemption: 45 Days To Go,” T.I. tried to change his ways and continually called Smith off-camera for advice on “how he could better inspire and motivate the kids he was mentoring,” a spy said. In the new docu-series, T.I. takes seven at-risk kids and tries to lead them to make better choices by placing them in certain situations that might make them want to change their “hustling” ways.
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T.I. and guest
Akon
Terrell Owens
James Freanco and Chloe Sevigny
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