T.I. is a known drug dealer and he always has 50′s, or so the song goes (Top Back – TI). On Friday the rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, was sentenced to one year in jail for federal weapons charges. He was looking at 10 years to begin with, so it really could have been a lot worse. He has already completed over 1,000 hours of community service, talking to kids about how guns are bad and trying to help them avoid the same mistakes he made. For those of you who are wondering that is 41 days of community service all together, which is unheard of for a full time rapper.

“Today I would like to say thank you to some, and apologize to all,” the rapper told U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr. at the 1 and 1/2 hour session.

Former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young told the judge – “He’s been able to do the work I’ve been trying to accomplish for so long in stopping violence in this country”.

T.I. said fear was one of the reasons that he tried to buy the illegal guns, as his best friend Philant Johnson was killed at a post party in 2006.

[Via Billboard]