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We just can’t beleive that one person can go to jail this much!!!  DMX has a talent for getting locked up.

A day after a $5,000 reward was offered by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s office for his capture, fugitive rapper DMX (born Earl Simmons) was arrested in Florida on Tuesday (December 9) on a warrant issued by a Phoenix judge after he failed to appear in court last Friday.

Attorney Bradford Cohen told MTV News that the rapper was picked up by FBI agents on Tuesday after patient-confidentiality laws prevented Miami police from confirming whether X was at a local rehab facility. “A call went out earlier this morning in regards to his location, and the regular police went out to that location, which was a recovery clinic, but because of health care laws, the clinic wouldn’t confirm whether he was there,” Cohen said. “So the cops left, and apparently the sheriff down here didn’t like that too much, so he called in the feds.”

FBI agents then apprehended DMX at the Palm Island mansion of producer Scott Storch. According to TMZ, an unnamed woman in Georgia tipped off the Arizona sheriff’s department officials to X’s whereabouts when she heard about the $5,000 reward being offered for information leading to his arrest. Cohen said he is not sure what Storch and X’s personal relationship is, or if Storch was home at the time of the arrest. The producer had a warrant out for his arrest earlier this year, when he failed to appear in court for a child-support case, and has been working on straightening out his finances after his home was foreclosed in July.

X is being held in jail until he goes before a judge in Miami on Wednesday morning. Cohen expects that the judge will not grant bond and that DMX will be extradited to Arizona within 15 days.

DMX was due in court last week for a status hearing on his upcoming trial related to charges of drug possession, identity theft and animal cruelty. When he failed to appear, the judge in the case upped his bond to $120,000 cash, and his public defender in Arizona, Charles Kozelka, said he expects the troubled rapper to remain in jail for “a while” as he awaits trial on the charges. Cohen said he thought DMX had checked into a rehab facility around December 1, but he was unsure if the MC had been in that clinic consistently since then.

Some one needs to tell their friend that going to jail this much is just not cool. 

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NEW YORK — Right now, T.I. is so hot, he can’t be touched. He has a huge album, a potentially bigger tour, Grammy nominations, movie deals and a slew of companies willing to pony up his price to have him endorse their products.

A year ago, T.I. was so hot, he couldn’t be touched. That’s what corporations like GMC were thinking when they severed any ties they had with him in light of his arrest on felony gun charges. He lost millions in potential income.
Hundreds of hours of community service later, everyone — including Tip — is much more optimistic about his earning potential. His star power is even greater than it was before his trouble with the law. He may very well have to start serving time in jail come March, but it doesn’t look like it will stop him from making moves.

“Presumably, while I’m there, I’ll be able to strategize my comeback,” Tip told MTV News last week. “All those days will be spent speaking to people who are interested in being in the T.I. business. Preparing myself for the days those doors open, when I put my feet back on the ground of the free world. It’s just months of planning. It’s just a long time to roll the project out. I ain’t gonna just be sitting still doing nothing. The wheels will be turning, just the car ain’t going nowhere.”

While still able to move relatively freely, Tip is working. He’s already begun recording his next album, there’s the possibility of a tour, and he would like to sneak in a movie.

“The film I’m producing over at New Line, ‘For Sale,’ we’re trying to put that together, and hopefully we’ll be able to do that before March,” he said. “We’re getting offers every day, checking on our availability, on whether or not we’ll be able to take advantage of certain opportunities, film-wise.”

Paper Trail’s follow-up has no release date, however. “I’m getting in when I can. Doing as much as can,” he described of his time in the studio. “I don’t have deadlines to meet. I don’t have tight parameters to meet.”

A luxury he can afford, because his current LP has legs. A video for “Dead and Gone” is next. Justin Timberlake, who sings on the record, will appear in the video.

“It will require both of our utmost abilities,” he said of the clip. “Both of us will need to bring all we got, both performance-wise and maybe some acting.”

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Pissy

Kanye decided to skip going to the bathroom and just relieve himself on the floor of his dressing room backstage at a pre-MTV Europe Music Awards party in Liverpool, England on Wednesday November 5, 2008.

He just pulled it out and peed on the floor.  That’s pretty nasty Ye. 

Check out the pics of Kanye and Estelle.

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