If you haven’t heard the news yet, T.I. was sent back to prison yesterday for 11 months due to probation violation. This despite throwing an Alzheimer’s Benefit with Tiny, saving a man from jumping to his death during Ryan Cameron’s radio show (**side eye**), and the courthouse allegedly being set on fire before the hearing.
I was prepared to write a Dear T.I. letter like the Dear Young Jeezy letter, but I’m kinda over everything for right now. Maybe next week.
Declaring that T.I. “has had about the limit of second chances,” U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. sentenced the rapper and movie actor to 11 more months in prison for violating his probation. He will begin serving his time at a later date.
T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., asked for leniency.
“I screwed up,” said Harris, wearing a three-piece gray suit. “I screwed up bigtime, and I’m sorry. I’m truly and sincerely sorry. I don’t want and I don’t need to use drugs anymore. I want them out of my life.”
“The worst thing is this case was an experiment,” Pannell said. The judge said he hoped the extraordinary sentence Harris initially received would work and could be adapted for use in other cases.
But then Pannell looked at Harris and said: “You certainly dumped a lot of smut on the whole experiment.”