T.I. keeps it real dumb.

Rapper T.I.—who I always want to be more talented than he is—is arrested on gun charges. I love his song "What you know about that?"--it was my MySpace song for quite a while. I really wanted it to be a big, political statement that would match the awesomeness of the beats, but the lyrics, like most southern rap (Outkast, Dead Prez, and a few others aside), always find a way to bore the fuck out of me. Mr. I. faces many years in prison, where he will be treated like a God—or get shanked. But but on the bright side, still manages to win two BET Hip-Hop Awards.

The entertainer, whose real name is Clifford Harris, was arrested in a federal sting Saturday after his bodyguard-turned-informant delivered three machine guns and two silencers to the hip-hop star, according to a Justice Department statement.

Authorities said that Harris, 27, provided the bodyguard $12,000 to buy the weapons, which Harris is not allowed to own because he is a convicted felon. Court documents said Harris was convicted on felony drug charges in 1998, and a federal affidavit said he has been arrested on gun charges in the past.

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The show went on without the self-proclaimed "King of the South," whose car and College Park, Georgia, home were searched following his arrest.

Authorities said they found three more firearms in the car in which Harris drove to pick up the machine guns and silencers, "including one loaded gun tucked between the driver's seat where Harris had been sitting and the center console."

At his home, authorities found six other guns, five of them loaded, in his bedroom closet.

Reportedly, he will face trial tomorrow. My guess of his defense: "They were props for a video shoot."

Really, it's all just a sad situation. I think "B. Herndon," a commenter on the pop-culture journal of thought www.ballerstatus.com, summed it up best:

Man free my nigga man... Dat Punk Ass Security Guard Needa Get Got.... Ya Digg.... T.I= man u the dumbest nigga ALIVE but man u already no when u get Out.. BIG Bottles To The Head iight folk A.TOWN STAND UP

This big bottle to the head is for you, T.I.