Rappers' Rap Sheets: A History Of Hip-Hop And The NYPD

After a couple of false starts, Lil Wayne was sentenced to a year in jail earlier today.

The hip hop star was immediately taken away in handcuffs to serve at least eight months in prison for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.

But the rapper is hardly the first hip hopper to get in trouble with the NYPD.

Check out the rogue's gallery below to see who else has stepped out of bounds:

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Date: Twice in 2007, once in 2008, once more in 2009. Charges: Marijuana, criminal possession of a weapon. Sentence: 1 year in prison for the weapons charge. Fact: His sentencing was postponed once for emergency dental work, and a second time after a fire broke out in the courthouse.

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Date: Twice in 2007, once in 2008, once more in 2009.

Charges: Marijuana, criminal possession of a weapon.

Sentence: 1 year in prison for the weapons charge.

Fact: His sentencing was postponed once for emergency dental work, and a second time after a fire broke out in the courthouse.

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[Balzac]

08:36 PM on 03/10/2010

Not a very flattering image of Tupac.

[Totto]

12:32 PM on 03/09/2010

Now, let's see some photos of the GOP crooks who'll never see the the inside of a jail.

[audi500a]

12:10 PM on 03/09/2010

MOS of these clowns aren't true to HIP HOP-

Talib Kweli Said it best

"I know you gotta get that cheddar whatever
Aiyyo I heard you twice the first time money, get it together
You must be History, you repeatin yourself out of the pages
You keepin yourself depleatin your spiritual wealth
That quick cash'll get your a** quick fast in HOUSES OF DETENTIN
Inner-city concentration camps where no one pays attention
or mentions the ascension of death, til nothing's left
The young, gifted and Black are sprung addicted to crack
All my people where y'all at cause, y'all ain't here
And your hero's using your mind as a canvas to paint fear
With, broad brush strokes and TALES OF INCARCERATION
You get out of jail with that Knowledge of Self determination
Stand in ovation, cause you put the Hue in Human
Cause and effect, effect everything you do
and that's why I got love in the face of hate
Hands steady so the lines in the mental illustration is straight
The thought you had don't even contemplate
Infinite like figure eight there's no escape.......

From that what? (Knowledge Of Self) Determination "

[audi500a]

12:09 PM on 03/09/2010

MOS of these clowns are true to HIP HOP-

Talib Kweli Said it best

"I know you gotta get that cheddar whatever
Aiyyo I heard you twice the first time money, get it together
You must be History, you repeatin yourself out of the pages
You keepin yourself depleatin your spiritual wealth
That quick cash'll get your a** quick fast in HOUSES OF DETENTIN
Inner-city concentration camps where no one pays attention
or mentions the ascension of death, til nothing's left
The young, gifted and Black are sprung addicted to crack
All my people where y'all at cause, y'all ain't here
And your hero's using your mind as a canvas to paint fear
With, broad brush strokes and TALES OF INCARCERATION
You get out of jail with that Knowledge of Self determination
Stand in ovation, cause you put the Hue in Human
Cause and effect, effect everything you do
and that's why I got love in the face of hate
Hands steady so the lines in the mental illustration is straight
The thought you had don't even contemplate
Infinite like figure eight there's no escape.......

From that what? (Knowledge Of Self) Determination "

[Propaghandi]

11:07 AM on 03/09/2010

I like Tim Wise's scrutiny of country music:

Johnny Cash, sang about shooting a man in Reno "just to watch him die."

Country legend Porter Wagoner's song "Cold Hard Facts of Life" tells of a man who kills his wife for cheating on him. "The First Mrs. Jones," in which Wagoner's protagonist, speaking to his new wife who has just left him, tells her how he stalked and murdered his former betrothed, after which killing he buried her body parts in the woods. In other words, unless the "second Mrs. Jones" comes back to him she's going to join the first one, pushing up daisies in the forest. If Young Buck dropped a song like this, white America would be screaming about how he was encouraging violence against women. But for Wagoner, a revered member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, he's just "telling a story."

Johnny Paycheck's classic, "Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill," or Jimmy Rodgers song, "If you don't want to smell my smoke, don't monkey with my gun," or several of the violent ditties recorded by Spade Cooley in the 1950s: a man who didn't just sing of violence, but also practiced what he preached, by beating his wife to death in front of their teenage daughter in 1961.

[Rand]

12:53 PM on 03/09/2010

Er...uh.... The Jimmy Rodgers line was actually a euphemistic reference to the male organ

[Caribbeana]

10:51 AM on 03/09/2010

Really? Talk about baiting....lol. I'm not a big fan of hip hop these days ( pretty crappy commercial music) but really HP? Somebody wants plenty of clicks today....

[luvly56]

09:10 AM on 03/09/2010

Oky, NYP can not tell me that there has never been an arrest of a Rock star or celebrities who gets stopped for the same reasons. This posting just wants to focus on the black men being arrested but I know white men commits the same crimes daily but is hardly never talked about. Why is it that the black men is always focused on more in the mediaz? When you have white musicians who is busted for drugs and crimes every day but they are not photocopied as repeat offenders only the blacks. It let me see that this world hasnt changed at all because the purpose of this advertised is to destroy the credibility and character of the black race. But we all know that other race commits the same crimes but is ignored for what they do.

[Befree16195]

08:20 AM on 03/09/2010

I see you guys ( purposefully) left out the great white hope of rap Marshall Mathers, III (aka Eminem) who was as arrested twice on gun charges.
Also Kid Rock who was arrested 2005 and 2007.

[sparky73]

10:16 PM on 03/08/2010

unfortunatly black artists will always be persecuted because of their color. Its a shame.

[nubret2008]

04:46 AM on 03/09/2010

Are you serious? And you definately don't know anything about the biz. For streetwise rappers like Tupac getting in conflict with the law was like a marketing testimonial. He proved his credibility got in the news and his record sales skyrocketed.

[Mycall]

03:38 PM on 03/09/2010

How is that different from a movie star getting arrested for smacking a hotel employee with a phone weeks before his (or her) movie hits the big screen??

[HarlemFreeThought]

08:06 AM on 03/09/2010

Artist??

[redd35]

08:10 AM on 03/09/2010

YES ARTIST PROBLEM WIT DAT

[rzzza]

10:14 PM on 03/08/2010

ODB, what a character! the fans miss you Dirt Mcgirt

[mypov123]

10:33 PM on 03/08/2010

aka Big Baby Jesus.

[princeofthecity]

10:32 AM on 03/09/2010

ol' dirty bast*$d is for the children

[SuperMoncho]

09:07 PM on 03/08/2010

I love it, The more they go to jail the more famous they get.

[Sonkwa Sonkwa]

11:25 PM on 03/08/2010

Like Sinatra and Johnny Cash???

nahh, to be like Cash he would have to do his time and then come back and perform at the prison.

[Rand]

01:06 PM on 03/09/2010

The only time Cash ever did was one night in Starkville, MS for curfew violation

You may be thinking of Merle Haggard

[rigveda]

09:06 PM on 03/08/2010

Hip Hop is for losers.

[rzzza]

10:22 PM on 03/08/2010

you give white people a bad name

[Sonkwa Sonkwa]

11:27 PM on 03/08/2010

you don't know hip-hop.

and most of them are rappers..not mc's. but then, you don't know what hip-hop is anyway.

[brooklyncitizen]

08:11 PM on 03/08/2010

I'd like to see the rap sheet on the NYPD; especially when it comes to killing young unarmedblackmen.

[sparky73]

10:17 PM on 03/08/2010

there is no doubt the NYPD is persecuting bl@ck people just like Israel is persecuting the Hammas.

[mypov123]

10:32 PM on 03/08/2010

Thank you, and we can thank "America's Mayor" Rudolph Giuliani for helping to cover up police brutality in NYC.

[Wood]

07:01 PM on 03/08/2010

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