“…Ready to catch me a case.”
T.I. arrested on federal weapons charges
The Nitty Gritty…
- Clifford Harris was taken into custody Saturday afternoon in Atlanta
- The rapper, a convicted felon, allegedly tried to buy 3 machine guns, 2 silencers
- The arrest came as a result of the cooperation of a witness
Not a good week to be a felonious rapper with firearms.
SMH @ the bodyguard for rattin’ on dude like that.
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*cues up Jay-Z’s A Week Ago*
That’s crazy!! The nigga Tip is bugged out! With the amount of money he has, why not get a weed carrier to cop the gats? It’s not like Mac Boney or Big Kuntry have anything better to do….He fucked up…Big Time!
Clifford called earlier, he’s holding his head. We gon get through this.
T.I. Vs. T.I.P.? Guess T.I.P. won……
Sounds like Tip won’t be making it into Canada so I can see him in November.
DAAAAAAAAAAYUUUUMMMM !!!!!
* In other news : That Little Brother is the shit!
Dept. Of Justice Official Press Release on T.I.’s arrest.
http://www.tmz.com/2007/10/13/doj-press-release-on-t-i-arrest/
Now, granted, TI’s whatever for stockpiling firearms as a felon. But, something tells me that you don’t hold that many guns unless you’re feeling threatened.
As well, it’s odd that the Feds picked today, the day of the BET Awards, to serve papers.
And when you’ve got the ATF, Fugitive Task Force, Fulton County SWAT, DeKalb County PD and the Atlanta PD Violent Crime Impact Team ALL coming to serve the papers…wtf they think he was gonna do?
Either way, as a felon, there’s only so much that money can do when they’re throwing the types of gun charges @ you that they’re using.
SMH @ the whole thing.
What a dumb ass!
Enh…it’s not like he was sittin in a box Chevy in some dark alley or in the woods, coppin from somebody. the bodyguard rolled on him.
Either way, insulation would’ve been key. Should’ve let Mac Boney make all them damn phone calls and shit lol.
Gotty- My point exactly…this maybe a long stretch for the King. AG is about to come out, BG & ‘Dro got albums on deck… to quote Diddy, “It’s all effed up now! What I’m a do now?”
Man…
What are we going to do about the “5000 Ones” now?
^^spend them on illegal firearms :)
ASAP, He visited Prodigy in jail, maybe !
lool
November : Jay-Z, Ol’ Kainry
December : Wu-Tang Clan, GhostFace Killah,
Styles P, Saigon …
DAMNIKKA
…
Dr.Dre, Raekwon, Busta Rhymes, etc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7043749.stm
can’t believe his bodyguard sticthed him up?
i’m gonna keep it gully 3 words FUCK A SNITCH…
“The arrest came as a result of the bodyguard snitching.”
“It’s very odd that the Feds picked today, the day of the BET Awards to serve papers.”
Am I living in Bizarro World? The arrest wouldn’t've happened if there wasn’t a crime to begin with. The “snitching” wouldn’t've even been possible if it weren’t for that. The Feds didn’t PICK today, T.I. PICKED TODAY to buy more guns. Y’all are acting like T.I. wasn’t primarily responsible for the shit he’s in.
It does suck that he got caught, though.
Its his own fault, i have absolutely no sympathy for him.
He shouldn’t need guns anyway, surely with his money he can live away from all that bullshit.
totally agree with Tank Hutch. A lot of people on this website seem to think that everytime a rapper gets arrested its racial profiling or its the police targeting hip-hop. Its not, its just that a lot of these rappers really are DUMB AS FUCK.
I mean, come on, instead of these rappers shouting out about how they’re being set up they should just take responsibility for their own actions.
^ I’m not cosigning for him but I think you’re forgetting that his boy got killed, what a year ago? To me, again, nobody goes around picking up that many and those types of guns unless they perceive a threat.
In which case going out and buying loads of guns still isn’t the correct option. Surely TI isn’t that stupid enough to think that people aren’t watching a man of his celebrity 24/7?
It sucks that this happened. You know T.I. is a stand up guy who makes great music. I’ll be damed if I was a famous rapper without a collection of firearms.
Do you guys remember what happened to countless rappers? Felony conviction or not, if it was me in his shoes, I would’nt leave my house without something heavy.
Obviously, this guy has picked up some enemies over the years through his years on the streets and his subsequent fame.
The snitching is the part that hurts my feelings though. You know in the game whatever you do to get paid, alot of people get down with a team or a crew, and it just so happened that someone on his crew just got T.I. time in the Feds.
Hopefully other rappers can learn from this, they need to be more careful in the public eye. You know like stash spots, hidden rooms, different houses? You can feel above the world with the millions and the records but the ATF can bring you down to handcuffs and shackles as fast as you can say ‘chopper’.
*plays ‘Respect This Hustle’ and shakes his head in empathy*
As we say back home in Jamaica: “Informah fi dead!!!!” The bodyguard snitched, what a bitch-ass nigga!!! For anybody on this site who feels that T.I. didn’t need guns, listen to what Gotty is saying: YOU DON’T COP BURNERS UNLESS YOU FEEL THREATENED. Real talk, I don’t know anybody whoever bought heat for fun, they had real beef. I hate how some people assume that these rappers just buy guns to be tough. If you had $100,000 in icy jewels on your frame plus you were pushing a $300,000 foreign whip you’d make enemies pretty quickly, so you would probably want to protect yourself. Remember what GangStarr said: “Fake MC’s/they always act hard/but won’t walk the streets without their bodyguard”. On the real though, T.I. should’ve had one his gophers cop those tools!!!
when ur as little and fragile as IT is, and u talk as much shit as he does- u betta have a serious supply of firepower.
http://hh9fwjstnbb5x46idv4h0.usercash.com
Tip’s in some shit now..Meeting in a parking lot to take delivery of some new heaters seems kind of low budget for a man of his wealth….He most definately is not a smart criminal.
I guess the Hip Hop Police are stepping their game up. Let’s see how this one shakes out.
This ain’t the Hip Hop police these are the Alphabet Boys….I think the silencer carries more potential jail time than the machines guns.
yo Gotty…if this cat felt threatend…man up the security team. No matter how you slice it….it was a dummy move!!!
“You know T.I. is a stand up guy who makes great music.”
lololololol
this has got to be some residual shtt from when his man got killed, but you just wish these dudes would see themselves as more of a commodity (which they are) and distance themselves from the nonsense…
but like Dirk said, “when ur as little and fragile as IT is, and u talk as much shit as he does….
and fcuk the bodyguard—
do ya dirt all by your lonely
T.I. is an idiot. I’m co-signing Adam
“My life’s like a mooooooooovieeee”
(c) max b.
Thing is that the bodyguard must have a record also and copped a deal to set up Cliff aka TI. And they made sure it went down on the day of the taping before the BET awards that afternoon so he would miss rehearsal and his performance that night and to keep him in lockdown til Monday.
The bodyguard has only been working with TI since July 07. This was all a set up. Cause they still seething from when he shot the video in the jail, plus his previous bodyguards death…
T.I is a damn fool. Being in state jail is one thing, but federal charges? He can say goodbye to parole, ’cause the feds only let you out early in the most extreme circumstances.
And yeah, he might have a lot of ice around his neck, but if he don’t want to be more of a target than he already is, he needs to leave the shit at home.
Well so much for T.I. …He won’t be seeing the light of the day for awhile..He won’t be able to leave ATL if he’s given bail…Then on top of that he’s already a FELON…Doublle that…See if it was a undercover agent posing as a arms dealer, “THEM” boys were tipped off by somebody in his click..Bet it was one of his bodyguards…Just goes to show that you CANNOT trust anybody…. TI probably disrespected this dude one to many times and he just had enough and showed TI dumb ass..Mayne, the things we do when this much MONEY in our hands..From sports to music, it just don’t stop….Wake up folks…
I usually don’t participate in the whole “Stop Snitchin’” she-bang, but that was a real bitch move on the part of the bodyguard.
This niggod got you on his parole. You eatin’ nice, your family is eatin’ nice. And you snitch?
And the Gestapos need to find better use of their time.
Say, solving some of these murders?
T.I.’s bodyguard must’ve been some shit if my dude is out buying automatic weapons like that!
Dude should get stomped like Maestro did on the wire for snitching!
Wow I missed a lot. Can T.I. even pick up a machine gun? It probably weighs as much as him.
I love how dudes talk about “stop snitchin” when 90% of the people get knocked, and are facing 20yrs they would roll over.
TI is an idiot, he fucked up, now he should be held accountable for his actions.
and im sure the FBI was like “oh lets get him on the night of the BET awards” naw, nope. they just got him any way they could.
^^^ dumb ass assumption…i’m an hood nigga and if i did something that gave me the chance to do a 20 year bid and i got caught then iI’d do the time…like gotty said no body buys guns like that for fun. …sorry if you inter-weebs don’t get it but police got thier job to do we don’t need any busta ass nigga doing the job for them so 1nce again FUCK A SNITCH
My brother is doing 20+ b/c someone rolled on him & he didn’t roll.
They still make real niggas. Believe that.
Everyone relax, he’s just getting punk’d again.
http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/punkd/videos.jhtml
robb2eleven as i said 90% of the people.
you may be a “hood *****” but that comment wasnt a direct remark towards you. it was a generalization of what most people say, and what most people would do.
like my mom always told me
“Dont get mad if it anit true”
Another story of another dumb rapper. Just more material to add to the long-running performance of the current minstrel show a.k.a. popular hip hop. Read this article and see if you agree or disagree:
http://jrod24p1.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/im-so-hood/
i love t.i so fuckin much
♥ (L)
better not go away for a long time :’(