Wow…this is no small gaffe on the part of the Associated Press. They reported that T.I. would have 305 days of house arrest credited to his prison term, so in effect, T.I. was looking at just 2 months in prison, instead of 1 year and 1 day.
Obviously,that sounded like a dream come true for someone convicted of having so many firearms (and with a prior record). And there were a lot of virulent responses from youse guys on the prior post.

But MTV News’ Gil Kaufman has cleared up the misunderstanding….The house arrest credit only applies to T.I.’s future house arrest requirement after he is released from Arkansas’ Forrest City Club Fed.

So even with good behavior, T.I. is only eligible for 55 days reduction from his sentence. He will most likely do at least 10+ months in prison.

Good catch, Gil!

MTV News explains:

“When The Associated Press reported on Sunday that T.I. — due to report to the Forrest City low-security federal prison in Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 26 — had been given credit for 305 days of home detention, “so his stay at Forrest City prison will likely be only two months,” the news agency may have misread the sentencing report. The story has since spread on the Internet, but according to Charysse Alexander, a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, it is not accurate.

According to Alexander, the rapper was indeed given credit for the 305 days of home confinement he served while awaiting trial in the case, but that has nothing to do with his prison sentence…..

more after the jump…

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So today on The Celebrity Drama Report, we worked out some of the details on who is this woman who has birthed the crown prince of the Carter III.

Celebrity Drama 10/22/08 part 1:

Celebrity Drama 10/22/08 part 2:

In the previous post, we learned that Sarah is a young Vietnamese/Caucasian Ohio resident, who splits her time between the University of Cincinnati and working as the mall as a nail tech. There are reports of Weezy/Mrs. Carter tattoos, and proud pregnancy photos on a now defunct myspace page. But what does the mother of the newborn Tiger Woods of rap look like?

Here is a glimpse of the elusive “Sarah” from Necole Bitchie. Read more of Necole’s take on Sarah-Gate here and on Stylerazzi.

After the jump, another photo…..

UPDATED: more photos of the real Weezy F. Baby mama

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All of New York City (and the connected hip hop universe beyond as well) is on fire because of a song that was sent to my co-worker DJ Kay Slay tonite. The song starts with Uncle Murda, and then Hov comes in and says this:

“Gangsta, Gangsta, how you wanna do this? I clap n—as down for yappin’ all foolish, ain’t no stopping this Roc-a-fella movement. The name is Jay Guevera, homie, who are you? and, if your off-beat DJ, anything he play sound familiar? I’ll wait ’til Pharell say, “Play ‘em.”**

Now I’mma have to diss you, Joe. You can get a smack for that, matter fact, the gats will blow….your toy squad will get squashed, Boy–yard dee, you’re lost in the sauce partly because your boss ain’t a leader. He’s a follower. No, I’m not coppin’ ya album or your single, most likely you’ll go copper…”

(**using Pharrell’s own voice)

“He Asked For It” by Uncle Murda, feat. Jay-Z (from thisis50)

The song is hot. The beat is fire, the Brand Nubian hook is crazy, Murda’s verse is hard, and of course Hov’s verse is classic, vintage, gully Hov.

Maybe because it’s exactly that…..vintage.

ACCORDING TO [EDIT: AN INSIDE SOURCE]:

THAT’S A FREESTYLE OFF A MIXTAPE FROM AROUND 5 YEARS AGO. MIGHT HAVE BEEN AROUND THE TIME OF S.CARTER [The sneaker and mixtape]. AND DJ KHALED WAS NOT ADDRESSED IN THE VERSE AT ALL.

And thankfully, Just Blaze has also stepped in with his voice of reason….

“So for some reason people think this “new” Jay/Uncle Murda thing is a Fat Joe Khaled dis. It’s not. It’s also like 8000 years old and somehow dude got his hands on it and put a verse on it. Now that I recall, it’s Blueprint 2 era..I was going to use this verse for the S.Carter Remix CD but we couldn’t get the Pro Tools in time. Don’t fall for the okeydoke.”

So who is trying to use Jay-Z’s status, reignite an old beef with Fat Joe, and create a non-existant beef with DJ Khaled?

Either someone who is super thirsty to heat up their career. Or someone who is super thirsty to get at Fat Joe.

Either way, that s—t is fraudulent and wack.

More analysis after the jump….

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here’s the thing, folks.

If you’re soft like bone marrow**, then don’t be going up to the guy in the room from Brooklyn, talking that fly s–t about, “yo, I heard you was talking reckless about me!”

Especially when he’s the guy who did the yard in the pen.

Especially especially when you just lost weight on that involuntary Detroit diet we all heard about.

Just doesn’t seem like that’s the right time/place to try to make a movie.

But look on the bright side, yung man….it could have been worse. Luckily, the big guy didnt bother with your replacement sparkles. And luckily….when you covered up after the first serve, you avoided the backhand.

**and no, this person’s steez is not representative of ATL or his hometown.

…and that makes me feel better. But only slightly.

Ok, Jay….how bout I explain it this way….

Your life of being careful and frugal will now benefit those who were reckless and exorbitant.

back in the day, the government bought out 225 billion dollars in bad loans. They were later able to sell them…..for 140 billion.

um. $85 billion dollar loss. Not really a good thing.

(this time around….it’ll be way worse)

 The players: Ye=Kanye, DC=Kanye’s manager Don C., Pap1=Photographer 1, Pap2=Cameraman, Lady1=airport employee in grey, Lady2= lady in black, etc…

Ye: Gimme dat camera! Give a Black man a chance… to walk past all the non-Black people waiting in line! I…want…dat…camera. Man!

Pap1: You can’t have it! (Oh s–t, is this really happening?) Give a pap a chance…to make a living walking the line between harassment and photojournalism! Dude!

DC: What’s that guy have, Ye? (Candy? Shoes? Bape? I want some….)

Lady 1: Boarding pass?

Lady 2: (Damn, California gay rights.)

Ye: I got it! Don, this dude got exclusive photos of Kanye West! I’mma post them on Kanyeuniversecity. Firrsst, Bitches! (….wait a minute.)

DC: (damn, it’s not Bape) Ok, gimme the hand off…meet you in the Premier Lounge. Wi-fi!

Pap1: Oww, my hand! (Doesn’t he get photographed all the time?… the Skycap told me Kanye West was here….is this not Kanye West? Designer bag? Check. Bling? No!…uh oh.)

Lady 1: No, that’s not your boarding pass.

Lady 2: (Oh, wait, they’re not gay. They’re rappers. No, thank you. I’ll just wait over here.)

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thank you to Jmack and the fellas of HoodHype for a nice audio interview with the homie Joe Budden. Lol, oh, Joe….the freedom of not owing anyone must be so refreshing, lol.

“I feel like Nas touched on the whole hip hop is dead thing, but when he did, it was just an empty statement from him, he never stood firm on why that was the case or how you can fix it or who is responsible….and me being an unsigned artist and not giving a f–k about what anyone thinks about what I’m saying….I figured I was the perfect person to deal with it.”

“I can’t find anybody who can tell me how many albums ‘Reasonable Doubt’ sold its first week.”

“‘Padded Room’ is like Mood Musik’s cousin…I dont think there’s more than 3 punchlines or metaphors or similes on there….I’m my only competition at this point…”

Padded Room, Sept. 30 : )

Last week, I asked why it was so bad for Rick Ross to have had a day-job with a good health plan and a pension (read government job) that he would need to release statements and sling threats at the mere mention of rumors of his past.

Me thinks he should not have protested so much….because thanks to the Smoking Gun (oh man, the kryptonite of the rap-actor)…..Ricky’s accusations of photo-foolery have gone up in smoke.

“Ross (real name: William Leonard Roberts) was appointed a prison guard in December 1995 at a salary of $22,913.54, according to the below personnel record, which was provided to TSG by Jo Ellyn Rackleff, a DoC spokesperson. The rapper’s social security number is identical to that of the jail guard. According to the official document, Ross was earning $25,794.34 when he left the department in June 1997. After graduating from the DoC training academy, Ross was assigned to the South Florida Reception Center in Dade County (the lockup is one of three statewide that serves as an intake facility for new prisoners). When a photo of a uniform-clad Ross surfaced last week…the 32-year-old performer claimed that unnamed “online hackers” put “my face when I was a teenager in high school on other peoples’ body. If this shit was real don’t you think they would have more specifics, like dates and everything?” He added, “Fake pictures are created by the fake, meant to entertain the fake.” The photo… shows a 19-year-old Ross at a DoC ceremony (he was part of the department’s 60th graduating class). He is pictured shaking hands with Marta Villacorta, who then headed the South Florida Reception Center. Villacorta, now the department’s South Florida regional director, was identified by Rackleff…”

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for blessings that are taken away….new blessings are given : )

fingers crossed………..

; )

(…don)

a disturbing tale of what happens when you have the wrong people repping you and claiming to be out to “do good in the hood.”

Also a lesson learned about “Janky Promoters” (c) Ice Cube

This has nothing to do with rap…but its definitely a foul situation that I need to sound off on on the home turf to the family : )

But first, exhale….and even a little sleep.