Prison

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Luxury Bus Flap Lands T.I. In Hot Water With The Feds

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After only one day of freedom following his ten month prison term, rapper T.I. has been sent back to federal custody once again last night. His lawyer denies that T.I. violated any terms of his probation, but instead claims that there was an issue with his method of transport from the Arkansas prison to the [...]

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T.I. Released From Prison

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T.I. is a free man today after being released from the Arkansas prison that has been his home since last fall. The rapper was sentenced in November for violating his probation stemming from a 2009 federal gun conviction. But now it seems like he’s getting sprung early, after serving only ten months of his eleven [...]

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Lil’ Wayne Upgrades His Uno Game In Prison

Of all the things we associate with prison time, card games you played with your bored babysitter would not have made the list. After being released after eight months of his one-year sentence in November, Lil’ Wayne opens up about prison life in Rolling Stone, including, most importantly, how good he got at the card [...]

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Ja Rule Gets A Two-Year Prison Sentence

Like Lil’ Wayne before him, Ja Rule is headed to prison. The rapper, whose real name is Jeffrey Atkins, received two years in prison as part of a plea deal with the Manhattan D.A.’s office, stemming from a criminal weapons possession charge from 2007. Oddly enough, he was arrested on the very same night and [...]

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T.I. Says Prison Is Making Him “Smarter,” Drops Album From Behind Bars

We were angry about our student loans before; we’re furious now that T.I. says prison is making him smarter. And we’re over here getting our master’s degree, like a chump! “The longer I sit, the smarter I get,” the rapper wrote in a letter posted to T.I.’s website. Despite the whole jail thing, T.I. is [...]

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Lil’ Wayne Released From Prison Today

Lil’ Wayne has served his time in prison and is now a free man. The rapper was released from Rikers Island in New York today after serving eight months of a one-year sentence for felony weapons possession. Despite the fact that he was put into solitary confinement briefly for possessing an MP3 player and earphones, [...]

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Lil Wayne Gets Sent To The Hole At Rikers For Using His iPod

You try to listen to one podcast and you get sent to solitary. Such is life at Rikers Island. Lil Wayne was busted back in May for having headphones and an MP3 player, items which are considered contraband in prison. As a result, Weezy is being moved to solitary confinement, known at Rikers as “The [...]