Poor T.I.

[buckweaver]

What's a man got to do to get some mother****in' machine guns up in here ... hours before an awards show?

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<NO>Rapper T.I. arrested on firearms charges just hours before BET awards show<QA>
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ATLANTA <NO1>(AP)<NO>— Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was arrested Saturday — just hours before he was to take the stage at
the BET Hip-Hop Awards — after federal officials said he had paid his bodyguard to buy machine guns and silencers for
him.<QA>
The arrest resulted from an investigation that began this month when a federal firearms licensee contacted the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives about a man inquiring about buying a machine gun without registering the weapon
as required by law, according to a criminal complaint filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in Atlanta.<QA>
After trying to buy several machine guns from an undercover ATF agent, the unnamed person began cooperating with the
government and said he was buying the machine guns and silencers for Clifford Harris, T.I.’s given name, the complaint
said. According to the bodyguard, he had bought about nine firearms for T.I., and the rapper had given him cash to buy
guns four different times, it said.<QA>
Harris brokered the deals through the bodyguard because he is a convicted felon, the complaint alleged. It is against
federal law for a convicted felon to have another person get firearms on their behalf.<QA>
The 27-year-old rapper had arranged to pick up the weapons just hours before he was to take the stage at the Hip-Hop
Awards, being taped blocks away, according to the complaint.<QA>

 

[Chi City 81]

I guess the Rubber Band Man snapped.

 

[imjustagirl2]

I heart him, in that 'please don't shoot me' way.

Can't help EVERYONE succeed. Sometimes, you gotta kill someone. With an unregistered weapon.

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

So the guy was trying to stockpile weapons, ammo and silencers?
What's the big deal?

 

[Football_Bat]

WE GOT MOTHER****ING MACHINE GUNS AT THE MOTHER****ING AWARDS SHOW!

 

[markvid]

WE GOT MOTHER****ING MACHINE GUNS AT THE MOTHER****ING AWARDS SHOW!

You know, I tried watching that movie a few weeks ago,
When the light in the loafers flight attendant threw one in the microwave and yelled, how do you like that, *****? I started rooting for the snakes.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

WE GOT MOTHER****ING MACHINE GUNS AT THE MOTHER****ING AWARDS SHOW!

You know, I tried watching that movie a few weeks ago,
When the light in the loafers flight attendant threw one in the microwave and yelled, how do you like that, *****? I started rooting for the snakes.

I still have not seen that movie ... and I think I'm a better person for it.

 

[ondeadline]

Before this thread, I never had heard of T.I. I clicked on it thinking that it was a typo and really was about T.O.

 

[Sportsbruh]

What's with all the SNITCHES in the South?

That's not gangsta.

 

[imjustagirl2]

T.I. is probably my favorite rapper today, and he's cute. Except he's like 5-1.

 

[slappy4428]

Fire arms at a music awards show? NOOOO

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

T.I. is probably my favorite rapper today, and he's cute. Except he's like 5-1.

There is nobody today that I get excited about. The early 90s for me were a much better time for hip-hop. You had Wu-Tang Clan, Biggie, RedMan, KRS One and every week we would get a mixtape, there was new stuff on it. Today, the only guy I really get into is Jay-Z and maybe, some 50.

 

[imjustagirl2]

I loved me some Redman. Wish he'd blow up again. Never really got into WuTang or KRS. I hate 50. Jay-Z has been my baby for years (he's the backdrop on my work comp).