Southern Rapper T.I. Sentenced to 11 Months in Jail

T.I. is heading back to prison, after a federal judge revoked the rapper's probation and sentenced the rap star to 11 months in prison for possessing drugs in September in Los Angeles. T.I. appeared in court today (October 15th) for a hearing that started at 2:00PM, flanked by his team of lawyers that included Ed Garland, Steve Sadow, Don Samuel, Janice Capek, Kristen Wright and Dwight Thomas. The courtroom was packed, as he stood before Judge Charles Pannell Jr. Prosecutors chastised the Grammy Award winning rapper for violating the terms of his federal probation for attempting to purchase machine guns and silencers in October of 2007 and wanted to send him away for two years. During the hearing, a small fire broke out on the side of the courthouse, causing a stir, but the proceedings continued. The rapper's defense attorneys argued that drugs in his system were the result of a root canal and T.I. admitted to using the drugs, after he had dental surgery. The rapper asked the judge to sentence him to rehab for a drug addiction, but he was sentenced to the 11 months in prison, instead.

The Third World War Has Started!- The Mixtape Wars

The recent slew of mixtape raids have caught a ton of media attention. But it wasn't the first time. Other DJs have been hit by the music industry giants. DJs like DJ Rectangle who was hit with lawsuits a few years back and many others.

It's ludicrous that the same industry that uses mixtapes to promote it's new music also turns it back on the DJs, the lifeblood that sustain the empire. They want DJs to distribute mixtapes with their music on them as a form of street promotion and they want the DJs to play their music at the major nightclubs across the globe. But they quickly turn their back when a DJ gets caught up in the Legal entanglement of Copyright Infringement. You just can't have it both ways. And just like ambiguity in land property line disputes, the ambiguity of where players in the music industry stand on the subject of DJs and DJ Mixtapes also leads us all to conflict and eventually war.

The bombing of Pearl Harbor forced the "Sleeeping Dragon" to join the battle and now the Mixtape Raid on DJ Drama needs to have a similar effect on the music industry. It's time to fight back. DJ's, Music Reps, Music Artists and Music Executives need to get together and rise up against the hypocrosy. If they don't it will be just like world War 2, and the Genocide of the Hip Hop Culture, The Techno Culture and any other Music industry that has come to depend on Mixtapes and Nightclub DJs will soon fall.