T.I. SPEAKS TO KIDS IN COURT
Prison-bound rapper T.I. was back in court on Friday (20Feb09) - to talk troubled high school students out of following in his footsteps.
The Live Your Life hitmaker, real name Clifford Harris, Jr., is due to begin a year-long jail term next month (Mar09) for illegal weapons possession.
His sentence relates to his 2007 arrest, when he was caught trying to buy an arsenal of guns from an undercover FBI agent.
As part of his plea deal, T.I. agreed to complete 1,000 hours of community service, which included talking to youngsters to keep them on the right side of the law.
The community work took him to Georgia Supreme Court last week where he warned at-risk students of the consequences of their actions.
He told them, "You can see from me that nobody is too rich, too famous, too cool, too good-looking or too young to make a mistake and pay a price for it.
"More important than the mistake you make, though, is what you are able to take away from that mistake. How can you use that mistake to ensure you will never make a similar mistake again?" And T.I. urged the teenagers - half of whom were serving juvenile sentences - to stay in school, because education is the key to success.
He added, "Education is more important than any material thing you can have. The things you do not have in your life, the things you do not have in your possession, will be a reflection of the things you have not learned."
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