T.I. Arrest -- The Affidavit and Search Warrant

76. We need to stop buying these gang music. Most of these rappers are felons and all they do in their music is spreading criminal mind to other young man. Black folk we need to open our eyes and see this destruction that is being brought by rap music . people like TI who glorify dope dealing and killing people need to be put away for life.

Posted at 12:17PM on Oct 14th 2007 by jibaba hodari

77. The day the music died....

Posted at 12:25PM on Oct 14th 2007 by wiredshut

78. Quit pulling the race card! There are actually many WHITE people serving hard prison time right now for illegal machine gun possession - many of them are actually low-income rednecks too, which is why most people have never heard of them.

Meanwhile, this BLACK millionaire rapper guy might actually either beat his charges or get off lightly by comparison, simply because he can afford high-priced criminal defense attorneys.

Posted at 9:27PM on Oct 14th 2007 by Robert

79. Mr. Harris' behavior is just indictive of the ignorance that permeates the 'rap game.' Now he will again feel the real truth that it is not a game.

He was just on BET defending the ignorance of some rap and rappers lyrics. Now he is a living example of why hip hop is dying. He had the opportunity to do more for his fans than any other rapper. We have been waiting, wanting, praying for these brothers to do the right thing, go against the grain as Nelly recently professed.

He is just another one biting the dust. Good riddens!

Posted at 12:32PM on Oct 14th 2007 by magicatty

80. Who usually has machine guns or automatic weapons or silencers?

The Mafia
Street Gangs
White Supremacists
Survivalists
Contract Killers
Mercenaries

Which one of these does he belong to? Oh, lets see, he's just a succesful private citizen who thinks its cool to have one of those items? Coolness comes, if caught, with a mandatory 10 year no parole Federal Sentence.

A citizen can in fact own a machine gun with proper Federal liscencing and approval of the town you live in Police Chief. But you cant already be a convicted felon.

If this is part of keeping it real in the Rap world, realness comes with a minimum 10 years in a Federal Prison.

Posted at 1:30PM on Oct 14th 2007 by Not Cool

81. Hip Hop is dying

Posted at 4:52PM on Oct 14th 2007 by www.lake-shore.co.uk

82. what better way for a rapper to "keep it real" than to do ten years in the pokey.

Posted at 3:41PM on Oct 14th 2007 by dick

83. Nobody cant touch T.i.,not even Pac

Posted at 8:10AM on Oct 16th 2007 by Aaron(Bankhead)

84. The brother is in trouble. BIG time, he will do HARD time.

Posted at 10:09PM on Oct 14th 2007 by Em

85. Anyone else think it sounds like most of the white posters are saying "See I told you all you BLACK rappers (and fans) are BAD"!?!?

Posted at 1:21AM on Oct 15th 2007 by Truth be told

86. "Relic" is right #84. Who were your childhood friends, the Black Panthers? It's really simple: felon + machine guns + silencers + video and audio of the entire transaction = big prison time and a boyfriend named Tiny sharing your bunk. "T.I." stands for Totally Ignorant. He was probably in the top five percent of black wage earners in the country and in an excellent position to be a role model for young blacks looking to make something of themselves. Everything we do is an example of either how TO DO something or how NOT TO DO something. Too bad he chose the wrong path.

Posted at 1:12PM on Oct 15th 2007 by Rick L.A.

87. I think TMZ needs to just STOP reporting on Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists altogether. Because FRANKLY I'm a little sick and tired of reading all of the clearly RACIST comments by it's readers.

Posted at 3:54PM on Oct 15th 2007 by Renegade

88. It's all easily explainable in a court of law. He's a rich guy with a lot of money, and probably wants to protect himself from robbers just like everyone else. OF COURSE he would need a machine gun to repel a gang of home invaders. That's just plain old common sense. He probably needed one machinegun for each hand and a backup in case one got jammed. And no sense unnecessarily disturbing the neighbors or irreparably harming his ear drums with loud noises, so that's why he had the silencers.

I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, in the movie Star Wars, Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a major record company, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit!

Posted at 7:57PM on Oct 15th 2007 by J-Cochrane

89. SHUT UP! HE'S A RAPPER! HE'S A RAPPER! A RAPPER! LOOK THERE'S A RAPPER! OOOOOHH!

Posted at 8:01PM on Oct 15th 2007 by Kramer

90. @#85 You sound like a real genius with formulas like that one, lets see you subtract all the white law breaking entertainers from the total and give us the SUM?

Posted at 6:51AM on Oct 16th 2007 by Not so Smart eh?