T.I. WRITES A LETTER TO FANS........

Rapper T.I. addressed his fans on his website last night. @Tip talks about heading back to jail.

T.I also thanks his fans for checking out his new music video "Get Back Up". Check out what T.I. says below...

"Thank you to all that took the time to check out my new video GET BACK UP with my homie Chris Brown. And a bigger thanks to those of you who decided to comment (good & bad). To all of you who say “He should practice what he preaches” and “How could he do something so stupid…AGAIN?” You’re absolutely right and I couldn’t agree with you more. But you know what? As history has shown us before, I find my greatest inspiration during my darkest hours. So all fans of music, T.I. or not, should be able to agree that NO MERCY will surely be my best work yet. After all isn’t that what it’s all about? If I never went to prison, never did drugs, never f’ed up again, did everything right and never made great music….would you even care enough to comment on T.I.? Doubt it, so bear that in mind while you jump to your conclusions guys. Martin Luther King once said “Notice not the comments of your enemies but the silence of your friends.” So although I’m still in touch…watching, reading and listening, I’m not concerned with what negative people say more than I am with what positive people don’t. Guess that’s enough for now… Love you all still, whether you still love me or not. REAL TALK!!! And I would like to give a special I LOVE U to @star_omg and @tinymajormama. – Tip"

T.I. RETURNS BACK TO PRISON.....

The rapper T.I. reported to a federal prison in Arkansas on Monday, less than a year after he was released, to begin serving an 11-month sentence for violating his probation, The Associated Press reported.

T.I., whose given name is Clifford Harris, was arrested in September at a traffic stop in Los Angeles with his wife, Tameka Cottle, who is known as Tiny, under suspicion of drug possession. Both were released, and Ms. Cottle pleaded not guilty on Monday to misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance.

Prosecutors in Los Angeles said they would not file charges against Mr. Harris, who at the time of his arrest was on probation for federal weapons charges stemming from a 2007 sting operation in which he was caught receiving three machine guns and two silencers that had been bought for him. He pleaded guilty to those charges and performed more than 1,000 hours of community service. He was ordered back to prison last month by a federal judge, and appeared on Saturday in a taped segment at Comedy Central’s “Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.”

T.I GOING BACK TO JAIL FOR 11 MONTHS!!! WOW!!

Declaring that T.I. "has had about the limit of second chances," an angry federal judge on Friday sentenced the rapper and movie actor  to 11 more months in prison for violating his probation.

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T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., asked the court for leniency.

"I screwed up," said the rapper, wearing a three-piece gray suit. "I screwed up bigtime, and I'm sorry. I'm truly and sincerely sorry. I don't want and I don't need to use drugs anymore. I want them out of my life."

But U.S. District Court Judge Charles Pannell Jr. was unmoved. Pannell noted that he had tried an extraordinary sentence with Harris, who was initially convicted of weaspons charges, by permitting him to stay out of prison while performing 1,000 hours of community service. The service consisted largely of visits with schoolchildren to speak out against violence, gangs and drugs.

"I think Mr. Harris had had about the limit of second chances," Pannell said. "The worst thing is this case was an experiment."

Pannell said he had hoped the idea would work and could be adapted for use in other cases. But then he looked at Harris and said:

"You certainly dumped a lot of smut on the whole experiment."

T.I. was still on probation on federal weapons charges when he was arrested Sept. 1 in Los Angeles. He and his wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, were taken into custody during a traffic stop in West Hollywood in which deputies said they smelled a strong odor of marijuana from inside the car. They were soon released on bond.

After the arrest, a U.S. probation officer alleged that T.I. committed three violations of his supervised release from prison: possessing ecstasy, testing positive for opiates and associating with a convicted felon. Pannell then ordered T.I. to appear back before him in court on Friday.

U.S. Attorney Sally Yates had recommended that Harris be sent back to prison for two years. Steve Sadow, his lawyer, had asked that Harris be given at least six months of home confinement during which he would attend an inpatient drug rehabilitation program.

T.I. had been released from federal custody in March after serving a yearlong sentence in prison and a halfway house. After his arrest of federal gun charges, T.I.'s legal team brokered an extraordinary plea agreement that allowed him to shave about four years off his prison time on the condition he perform 1,000 hours of community service telling kids about the pitfalls of crime, drugs and gangs.

T.I. completed his community service and got the sentence he wanted. But he was still on probation when he was arrested at the traffic stop on Sept. 1.