QUICK TAKES - May 27, 2009
Rapper T.I. entered an Arkansas federal prison Tuesday to begin a year and a day sentence on a weapons charge.
The singer (real name: Clifford J. Harris Jr.) made a concert-like entrance to the Forrest City low-security prison -- showing up late inside of a black conversion van with tinted windows.
T.I., 28, was arrested after trying to buy unregistered machine guns and silencers from undercover federal agents in 2007. That came after the rapper’s best friend was killed after a party in Cincinnati in 2006. The rapper has said the bullets that killed his friend were meant for him.
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