With just 71 shopping days left until Christmas, many people are starting to think about gift-buying – like T.I, who apparently wanted to get his dear old mother the greatest gift of all; the gift of three machine guns, two silencers and a pistol.
At least we assume that the three machine guns, two silencers and a pistol that T.I attempted to buy on Saturday were presents for his loving mother – who we're told has a mole infestation that only three machine guns, two silencers and a pistol can solve – because it's completely unheard of for a rapper to buy illegal firearms for their own use. Anyway, the whole gun-buying thing didn't go especially well for T.I, who was promptly arrested and charged by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. T.I now faces a long jail sentence for the crime, but it's his mother who we most feel sorry for. She'll probably have to make do with a Tamagotchi or something for Christmas now.
Rappers are responsible for some terrible things – be it violent assault or animal abuse or Who's Your Caddy? – but even so, it's hard to understand why any rapper would want to illegally buy a bunch of machine guns unless they wanted to do serious harm to someone. Unless of course they wanted to use the firearms to correct the world's wall-based punctuation errors like on the intro to the Police Academy cartoon, but even attention to detail like that is probably still fairly illegal. And that means T.I is in a sticky mess at the moment.
Oh, you know T.I. Some call T.I 'the Jay-Z of the south' thanks to his songs like King Of Da South, Tha King, King Back and Chillin With My Bitch. T.I is such a successful rapper, in fact, that he was all set to be the star of the show at Saturday's BET awards, picking up nine nominations and getting the chance to perform. However, that didn't exactly go to plan because T.I – a felon convicted in 1998 of distributing cocaine and manufacturing and distributing another controlled substance – was arrested hours before the show for taking delivery of three machine guns, two silencers and a pistol; something that, unsurprisingly, felons aren't really allowed to do. Reuters reports:
Federal agents arrested Grammy Award-winning rapper T.I. on Saturday on charges of buying illegal machine guns, hours before he was due to star at a major hip hop awards ceremony. Agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) said they arrested the rapper in Atlanta as he took delivery of three machine guns and two silencers. "This convicted felon allegedly was trying to add several machine guns to an already large and entirely illegal arsenal of guns," David E. Nahmias, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, said in a statement. "Thanks to the good and quick work of ATF, he is now in custody and his firearms have been seized," Nahmias said.
It's not good news for TI, who'd won critical praise for his confusingly schizophrenic-sounding album T.I Vs T.I.P, because he's violated the terms of his probation as well as being up for these federal gun-buying charges. T.I is due in court today, and it looks like he could be in for an especially long stretch in jail. Which, on the plus side, at least gives him the chance to start working on his comeback album, tentatively entitled T.I Vs T.I.P Vs Mental Kenny The Stabber From Cell 408.
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Evisu says
Didn’t they find the shoulder fired rockets?
Timothy says
I think that bullshit.
Adam Gade says
I think we should be more worried about his dangerous inability to wear a hat properly.
MGP EVANS says
IT’S CRAZY IF THIS SHIT IS TRUE… I VERY TALENTED RAPPER DOESNT NEED THIS SHIT ON HIS BACK…. BUT BELIEVE HALF OF WHAT YOU HEAR AND WHOLE OF WHAT YOU SEE. THE MEDIA IS A MUTHA FUCKER MAN…… I MEAN THIS SHIT MIGHT OF NOT BE TRUE….
JBollocks says
I hesitate to agree with AG, but he’s right.
T.I looks like an elf on ice (I mean the drug, not H2O at less than 0 degrees C).
JBollocks says
On second thoughts, what the fuck do these fucking criminals think they’re doing?
Clifford Harris (I can see why he changed his name) was found to have 3 weapons in the vehicle he was driving and 6 others in his closet.
Even the best of us can only manage to fire one weapon at a time.
I know, it’s “I’m such a motherfuckn’ big gangsta”. Personally, I wish they’ld all fuck off and die. Fucking scum.
Adam Gade says
Haha, Clifford? Like the huge cartoon dog? Well, at least he represents his roots with a properly colored hat.
yukonthug says
Look you phuckin whiney bitches, the guy puts out better music than you could ever hope to be cool enough to listen to. By the way, gangster rappers are supposed to have guns, why do you think they call it Gangster Rap, you phukkin losers!
Adam Gade says
Oh boy. Are you serious? I mean even your name is cliche and stereotypical. Also, I didn’t know there were levels of coolness that kept people from listening to certain music. If that were true, Kevin Federline must have a level of coolness demigods would envy. But really, fan boy or not, your “argument” is, as they say in your cool Gansta Rap, whack. One last last thing, is it phuckin or phukkin?
JBollocks says
Hey yukonthug,
You are fucking kidding.
My home town holds the (dubious) record for the most number of people killed by a single arsehole gunman in an afternoon. That being 37 nice people shot. So before you call me a “phukkin loser” get a grip you fucking son of a whore.
You Gansta Rappers losers are like kids in a playschool boasting how tough you are. I spit on you.
sheila says
you can all piss off he better than all of you!
Jbullockssuckscock says
Fuck jbullocks. I live in the murder capital u don’t know shit u pussy