Respect Authority

Want to know how to get caught with 10 machine guns and only spend two months in jail? Be T.I. Inspire the children of Atlanta’s Ron Clark Academy to perform a fair and balanced parody of your hit “Whatever You Like” in the theme of last fall’s epic electoral boogaloo. Warm the hearts of teenagers everywhere with melodramatic MTV sap-umentaries. Do that, and we’ll call it a deal — you’ve done your time. After all… you are the King of the South. Or at least, so you told me.

The rapper, the self-proclaimed “King of the South,” had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each charge in his three-count indictment.

Harris will be credited for 305 days of home detention he already has served after being charged, so his stay at the Forrest City prison likely will be only two months.

After this, Clifford’s going to have to do better for his lawyer than pull a Rick James and get a couple girls in the club to show him their tittays. And at the very least, this whole debacle only proves that maybe that troublesome alter ego of his, T.I.P., kind of can have whatever he likes, even if that includes a completely gratuitous stash of scary guns.

Either way, one thing is for sure: his new cell is going to blow (whoops, heh, maybe the wrong term for a prison joke… or maybe… it’s just right) compared to the dump where he spent the majority of his sentence.

Relatively free anyway. Life yo' life dogg.