Street credibility makes the world go ’round. How else could 50 Cent have a successful rap career? The quickest way to gain street cred is via jail. I could tell you what a jail looks like, I’ve seen that Lisa Ling special on National Geographic. I can’t tell you what jail is like though. I’ve seen the movies. I’ve heard dudes get it Broke Back Mountain style without having permission to do so. I’ve heard about the crooked guards that help move drugs in and out of the prison. I’ve seen/heard all that.
From what I can tell, jail is not fun. Despite how many rappers or rap videos glorify the inside of the clink, no rapper wants to spend time locked up in the name of street credibility and album sales. I remember a time when it was cool to release songs from prison, or spit a freestyle over the prison phone in a magazine interview. Prison tunes can’t be downloaded though, so they don’t reach too many people. No musician actually gets more famous from going to jail. There’s too many other forgettable musicians waiting to take a jailed musicians spot. Elvis is the only musician who actually went to prison and enjoyed it. These fools I have listed below have, however. I’ll let them tell it
Honorable Mentions:
Rick Ross – Oh my bad, you WORKED in a prison…
Slick Rick – One of the greats. Not a top rapper now, but served 5 years in the 90′s for attempting to kill HIS cousin and shooting a bystander. If you pull out on Slick Rick you better kill him because he obviously shoots first and asks questions later.
Pimp C – I would’ve put him on the list had he actually been arrested for pimping. He was arrested for aggravated assault instead because he was waving a gun at the hoe he was pimping.
Lil Wayne – He’s just an idiot for the stuff he gets caught for. He runs around flaunting drugs like a 15-year-old.
5. DMX
I wish “Dark Man X” wasn’t on this list, however, he needs to be. We watched DMX go from a hardcore overnight sensation to a hardcore crack head. Crack! Someone needs to explain to me why millionaires (i.e. Bobby and Whitney) smoke crack, the cheap form of cocaine. Are they trying to save money? Is crack a smarter investment than cocaine? Does the price of a rock go up when the price of glass pipes go up? Someone learn me! (I need my Brunswick cats to respond to this one, you know who I’m talking about too Zeus).
Anyway, on X’s first album he claimed, “I’m the only rapper walking the street with four felonies!”. At the time, that was some serious street cred. Now, we realize it was just serious drug use. Especially the time he was arrested at JFK Airport in NY for impersonating a FBI agent…While he was high on crack. If you see DMX in the streets just follow these directions and you’ll be ok: stop. drop. shut him down, then open up shop.
4. C-Murder
Couldn’t rap for sh*t but the name explains it all. In 2001 he shot at a bouncer who denied him access to a club (because C-Murder had a gun on him). Following that, C-Murder beat, shot, and killed a 16-year-old boy who was a fan of his. Apparently C-Murder doesn’t do it for the fans. He must’ve been snubbed from getting a People’s Choice award.
3. Styles P
Couldn't find a mugshot photo for Styles. He probably stabbed it.
He stabbed someone, in the a**. That’s a whole other level of attempted murder. How mad would you have to be to stab someone in the a**? If I had a choice, I’d shoot at you from about 30 yards away. Styles P? He’d like to look you in your brown eye and try to surgically remove your large intestine. While you’re still alive. With a rusty knife. From behind, (pause) and he actually doesn’t care if the intestine is removed as long as it’s stabbed.
2. TuPac
'Pac was small as hell. You see that? 5'11,154lbs. My feet are bigger than that.
Every time this man went to jail he came back a little crazier(signed with Suge Knight after his last stint locked up). In an interview with MTV he said, “They shouldn’t send me there, you know. It’s like, you don’t add more gasoline to the fire.” about being locked up. He wasn’t lying. Seems like the intensity level of Pac’s rhymes furiously shot up from “Scary Black guy” to “Militant opposition” after his second release from prison. Makes sense though, anyone that has to write while in prison is going to have more anger in their lyrics.
1. T.I.
This looks like a Juvie mugshot. No wonder he got out in less than a year, he went to bootcamp.
These aren't even all the guns.
T.I. gives his bodyguard $12,000. Bodyguard goes to get guns for T.I. Bodyguard comes back with guns, and federal agents because bodyguard is a snitch.
Since T.I. was a convicted felon already he was not allowed to own guns of a certain caliber, i.e. machine guns. T.I. obviously didn’t care and got the guns, but why? Who the hell was little tiny T.I. going to war against? All I know is that he was ready to bang and didn’t really care about being caught, “Seven time felon, what I care about a case, man?” Rubberband Man
My guess is that he was hunting down Tiny’s plastic surgeon for her botched face, and her high school principal for allowing her to graduate (she may not have graduate, if she did, she sounds like she shouldn’t have).
Well u see cocaine is a hell of a drug as we all know… A highly addictive narcotic, now when u add bakin soda water n some heat u purify the cocaine by “cooking” away all the impurities… Now the high is… I guess intense but is short lived which actually starts the craving which hooks u and in extreme cases whuich is inevitable unless u seek help early enough will have u stealin from ur mother and just like most CDS’ it affects ur mind…ie DMX look at his lyrics to damien n the omen was he high? With recent events its very likely…(Who is mickey n y does he talk like that don’t know but he had to go)
Big shout to Zeus from Brunswick! U know who you forgot from this list ODB…