TIP Is Back On Point - Welcome Home TI

Welcome Home Tip – Santa Came Skrate to the Ghetto

This is Fabulous News.  no doubt the judge will allow him to visit with his family during the holidays. Good Work Tip, We knew you had it in ya.  now we have just a few weeks left until he’s back on the streets making music again.

Shawty Where You Headed Tonite ?

Rapper T.I. released from prison – CNN.com.
(CNN) — Rapper T.I. was released from prison on Tuesday after seven months, his attorney confirmed.
The performer, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., will serve the remainder of a reduced sentence in a correctional center near Fulton County Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

Harris was sentenced to a year and a day in March 2009 resulting from weapons charges related to purchasing machine guns and silencers.

Officials charged him with providing a bodyguard with $12,000 to buy weapons.
In May, he reported to a federal prison complex in Forrest City, Arkansas, to begin serving his sentence.

In addition to serving prison time, T.I. was placed on house arrest, given community service and was ordered to pay a $100,300 fine.

It was not the first time the platinum-selling artist had been in trouble with the law. Harris was not permitted to own any guns because he had been convicted in 1998 on felony drug charges, possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute, in Cobb County in suburban Atlanta.

After the rapper’s arrest, he entered a plea agreement, which federal authorities called unique because it allowed him to remain out of prison for a year while he performed.

Steve Sadow, Harris’ attorney, said prisoners with Harris’ sentence are eligible for a 54-day sentence reduction for good behavior. Harris is expected to remain at the halfway house for three months and will still be required to finish serving slightly less than 500 hours of community service and about 23 days of home incarceration.

Before reporting to prison, Harris threw himself a going-away party/concert attended by thousands at Philips Arena in Atlanta.

Lets Talk About Men and Saggin; Really

One of the most important film events of the year is happening this weekend in Atlanta - it's The International Black Man Film Festival.

Auburn Avenue Library

101 Auburn Ave NE / Atlanta GA 30303

12noon to 9pm / Free / All Are Welcome

info@blackmanfilmfest.net
usa phone > 404.432.2194

this festival is celebrating it's 8th year with a bang. on saturday if you are in Atlanta, you must make your way to the Auburn Ave. Library and join the crowd. the films and discussions will be first rate. many will bring you face to face with your own sensibilities - like our subject today, Saggin.

1pm

SAGGIN' IN THE ATL...

Directed by Tracy Crews

With Rajheem, C.T. Martin, Richard Pennington, D-Roc, Yemi Toure.

A film about the pant sagging phenom and one of the ways Atlanta is trying to combat it. We hear from those who are outraged, and from those who are outraged that some others are outraged.

Documentary - 25 mins

Saggin in The ATL is all about the Black Male Point of View on the saggin phenomenon. it's filmed and produced by Black Men, in hopes that the rest of us will finally understand the myraid of emotions which surround this issue.

I had a chance to sit down with one of the Producers of the Film and the Head of the Festival - my friend Yemi Toure'.

Knowing Brother Yemi is a great patron of the arts and one of my favorite sociologists; I ask the real questions and Brother Yemi puts it on the table. He lets us pick it up, because we all own a part of it; regardless of what we think, we do. Even I had to stand corrected - and gladly so. this short pod is quite enlightening on the entire situation around Saggin.

Take a moment and listen to 5 minutes on why the future is walking around us everyday; and what we need to do to relate to it, now.

Tomorrow we'll look at another segment of the festival program. complete with another short podcast segment from Brother Yemi - our cultural curator for this weekends International Black Man Film Festival.

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(This is a current news item regarding saggin; and not a part of the festival)