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Turtle's Fave Rapper Saigon Popped on Knife Rap

Posted Aug 23rd 2007 12:10PM by TMZ Staff

Rapper Saigon -- best known for being the first (and last) hip-hop client of Turtle's on "Entourage" -- was arrested early yesterday for allegedly carrying a big bad illegal knife in his whip.

The NYPD tells TMZ that the faux-real rapper (real name: Brian Carenard) was pulled over for a traffic violation in Manhattan's west Chelsea neighborhood early Wednesday morning. Cops then noted that Saigon was "in possession" of a gravity knife, the sort of blade that requires just a push of a button to unsheath.

Saigon was booked and charged with felony knife possession, then posted $1,500 bail and was released. He'll be back in court December 5, but no word on how much sooner the incident will be appearing on "Entourage" in thinly-veiled fashion.

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1. WHO?

TMZ, you are supposed to be a CELEBRITY site. Try to find some news on one of them and let all these posuers you blog about go back to living in oblivion.

Posted at 12:24PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by Go AwAY

2. WICKED SLOW DAY!!!

Posted at 12:25PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by justpeachy

3. TOO EASY! We're all thinking it.

Posted at 12:26PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by I love simon

4.
What the hell is a REAL black person? What does that even mean?

I love how black people sceam for inclusion but are always the first to practice exclusion. Ignorant.

Posted at 12:35PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by Go AwAY

5. His 15 minutes are now officially over. Chalk up yet another young rapper who feels carrying "weapons" is keeping it real.

Sad.

Posted at 12:35PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by simon birch

6. I'm a faux black person and I don't know him. And do I want to? No, not so much.

Posted at 12:39PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by Faux

7. Once my new single comes out, none of you people are even gonna remember this guys name!!!

Posted at 1:00PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by Dellor Kcir

8. A Gravity Knife needs more than just the push of a button, it needs either Gravity (Duh) or a flick of the wrist to bring out & lock the blade. If it only needs you to push a button then a spring is being used to bring out the blade, making the knife a switchblade or "Out the Front" (OTF) knife.

Posted at 1:02PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by Freddie Freelance

9. Craptastic!

Posted at 1:35PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by ghettolicious

10. Must be a slow news day when TMZ is writing about rappers that 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the population have never heard of.

Posted at 2:06PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by rminva

11. He look mad! Just like all the other ones.

Posted at 1:59PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by WTF?

12.
He should get Lindsay Lohan's lawyer! He'll go free, just like her, for sure!!

Posted at 2:19PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by karnet

13. Turtle - get back in your shell sucka!

Posted at 4:06PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by john shaft

14. Wow, another rapper busted for weapons violations. Go figure. Gosh ma, didn't see that one coming. Whatever. Typical.

Posted at 4:26PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by Spurs

15. He was well known by hip-hop fans and signed to a major label album deal before Entourage. He seems to have been caughtup in label politics though, I guess. As it seems his album's been done for 2-3 years.

Posted at 6:28PM on Aug 23rd 2007 by John C jackson