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    Rapper Big Boi of OutKast settles Fla. drug case

    MIAMI (AP) — Grammy-winning OutKast rapper Big Boi has reached a deal on Florida drug charges that allows him to avoid jail time.

    Big Boi appeared in a Miami courtroom Thursday as prosecutors outlined the deal that includes three months of drug testing, community service and $2,000 in donations to charities. The 36-year-old rapper's real name is Antwan Patton.

    He was arrested getting off a cruise ship in August when a K-9 dog alerted to drugs Big Boi was carrying. The substances included ecstasy, a cigarette roller with marijuana residue and the ecstasy ingredient MDMA.

    Big Boi had faced two felony drug charges. Prosecutors say if he remains drug-free after three months of testing, those charges will be dismissed.

    The Atlanta-based group OutKast has won six Grammys and made six platinum-plus albums, including "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below."

     

    26 comments

    • A Yahoo! User  •  7 mths ago
      Antwans mama needs to learn how to spell! Antwan? LMFWAO! What crack induced coma produces these ignorant names, La Quiesha? LOL! Keep up the good work ya'll! Too funny!
    • Mark  •  7 mths ago
      No Soap on a robe for Big Snacks. Can you still be called a rapper when you haven't done crap for years? I think former rapper is more fitting.
      • Eric 7 mths ago
        He made an album last summer, dummy. Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty. Shut your face.
    • DJTexn1  •  7 mths ago
      Good luck trying to separate a rapper from his pot! Do not blame them. If I had to listen to rap all day I would need to be high on something too. Talk about boring!
    • Love Not Hate  •  7 mths ago
      Legalize Marijuana like tobacco and alcohol for adults and balance the budget.
    • FED up with feds  •  7 mths ago
      legalize coke,heroin meth for adults and and balance the budget
    • FED up with feds  •  7 mths ago
      after all if it recreational some people like baseball some like basketball
    • Pioneer  •  7 mths ago
      Wow, I guess it DOES make a difference, who you are in drug cases. A less fortunate individual would be looking at the inside walls of at least a county jail for some time, if caught with the same evidence.
    • todd the rod  •  7 mths ago
      at least they didn't find the coke
    • Love Not Hate  •  7 mths ago
      Legalize cannabis like tobacco and alcohol for adults and balance the budget.
    • john  •  7 mths ago
      SHOCKER.
    • Richard Pillsbury  •  7 mths ago
      Who cares about another thug crimminal has been rapper, that music is so ghetto, keep it there!
    • RyanC  •  7 mths ago
      A rapper with drugs? This is unusual.
      They are usually arrested with a loaded, concealed weapon.
      Must be a new trend.
      • Eric 7 mths ago
        So, no other musicians or artists use drugs? Rappers are not the only people in the music bizz who do drugs.
      • RyanC 7 mths ago
        @Eric ... Please quote the section of my post where I stated that 'no other musicians or artists use drugs' as I am unable to locate that piece of text.
    • sempfiguy  •  7 mths ago
      drug dogs for cruise ships. tax dollars at work
    • Mr. Smith  •  7 mths ago
      Than let's lock up most of the lawmakers too while we at it!
    • DA ASSX3N  •  7 mths ago
      All I have to say is...HEY YAHHHHH....LUCKED THE PLUCK OUT!
    • Princess Stephanie  •  7 mths ago
      I agree with James P Knight and Ctlvr, we would be in prison for life! What is wrong with Florida? Who the hell do these people think this guy is, beneath the law I guess!
    • Rusty Shachalferd  •  7 mths ago
      Well I hope he takes it like a man. After all, Big Bois don't cry. All kidding aside though, marijuana should be legalized anyway. It's time we stopped criminalizing recreational drug use, especially drugs that are less dangerous than the legal ones (tobacco and alcohol).
    • Jade  •  7 mths ago
      Typical trap set up to extort money from black success, which we all know must be punished in US, never mind true criminals on wallstreet who have stolen billions.
    • Wasup!  •  7 mths ago
      Should have done time, BOI !
      • Joe 7 mths ago
        Bullsh@t !!
      • Dave 7 mths ago
        i think Joe is a wanna be punk #$%$ where most of him dripped down his mamas leg.
    • ctlvr  •  7 mths ago
      Again?????????????? You or I would be in prison.
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