The Atlanta native, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., was in treaty court following his arrest last month in Los Angeles on suspicion of drug possession. He was on probation after serving 10 months behind bars on federal weapons charges.

"I think Mr. Harris had had concerning the limit of second chances," U.S. District Court Judge Charles Pannell Jr. afore~, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution .

During the hearing, T.I. begged Pannell not to launch him back to prison, saying he needed to get help because drug addiction. He told the judge he "screwed up" and pleaded towards mercy.

"I want drugs out of my life. If I have power to get the treatment and counseling I need ... I can beat this," T.I. told the account, according to U.S. attorney spokesman Patrick Crosby. "I need resist. For me, my mother, my kids, I need the court to accord. me mercy."

The Associated Press was relying on information from the prolocutor because the judge closed the courtroom after it was filled and divers media outlets including AP were not allowed in.

Pannell wasn't swayed ~ means of the rapper's plea.

The judge had said T.I.'s axiom was an "experiment" he hoped to replicate if it worked. The rapper was allowed to stay confused of prison while performing 1,000 hours of community service, mostly talking with schoolchildren about the dangers of gangs, drugs and passion.

"You certainly dumped a lot of smut on the whole use of ~s," Pannell told T.I.

After the hearing, U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates reported she was disappointed with T.I.

"We had hoped that this would have existence a new, innovative opportunity," she said. "We're not giving up adhering Mr. Harris, but ... if you veer off the road of deliverance, there are consequences."

The Grammy Award-winning artist walked out of court by family and friends, leaving the building through a back exit in the absence of speaking to reporters.

Yates said the rapper is expected to surrender voluntarily to persons in office Nov. 1.

As a condition of T.I.'s release earlier this year, he was ordered not to give over another federal, state or local crime while on supervised release, or to illegally control a controlled substance. He was also told to take at minutest three drug tests after his release and to participate in a put ~s into and alcohol treatment program.

"While he was telling kids to obey the statute, he was breaking it," Yates told the judge Friday, according to Crosby. "There has to have ~ing a significant consequence for undermining the (plea) agreement."

Yates urged the judge to consider a sentence of two years in prison. She before-mentioned T.I. submitted diluted urine samples and told his probation officer he had used ecstasy at least three times since leaving prison.

T.I's attorneys argued that after reviewing nearly 250 cases through similar charges, none of those people were put back behind bars towards violating probation, Crosby said. Additionally, the attorneys told the judge that Harris was addicted to drugs and has attempted to phase his life around since leaving prison.

Earlier this week, Atlanta police said T.I. helped them talked a suicidal man down from a skyscraper. The rapper heard well-nigh the man on the radio and drove over to see grant that he could help.

The man agreed to come down from the 22-tale building in exchange for a few minutes with the rapper, precedents said. They added he recorded a cell phone video of himself that was shown to the individual by rescue workers to prove he was really there.

T.I. rejected suggestions that his interference was a stunt to gain advance favor with the court.

Atlanta Police Department prolocutor Officer James Polite testified at Friday's hearing about being current when T.I. lent his assistance.

"We believed it was sincere," Polite said of Harris' offer to help. "He gave words of encouragement and was some intricate part of having that situation safely and quickly resolved."

"What the hell are you doing?" is which Legend recalls that executive saying.

"He's not directly responsible toward my career but he's quite a popular record executive, whose dub I won't mention," Legend said, laughing. "(And) he was not approving of this."

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Fortunately on the side of Legend, the executives at his own label, Columbia Records, had his back. Now the concerted collaboration, "Wake Up!" is one of the best reviewed albums of the year.

The CD, released after all the rest month, finds Legend and the hip-hop band covering 1960s and 1970s source of action songs from iconic acts like Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, Nina Simone and Bill Withers, in the midst of others (the CD also has one original song).

"It is a covers enroll but it really doesn't feel like a covers record at aggregate," said Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, the Roots leader who co-produced the album. "I conjecture certain music connoisseurs will know the cuts ... they weren't like, Billboard-charted hits. They were chosen on this account that their message."

The sound is somewhat of a departure for Legend. Though he's a spirit singer, "Wake Up!" features less crooning and more grit. He's singing songs all over war, politics and race in a different tone than he's completed in the past.

That was accomplished thanks to ?uestlove, Legend afore~.

"Ahmir was really steering the ship," he added, acknowledging not proficient some of the songs before recording them. "I really leaned put ~ him for his expertise."

The Grammy winner agrees that he took a exposure to harm with "Wake Up!" — but he didn't think twice about creating the design.

"The thing is the industry as a whole is risk-indisposed because people are losing jobs, the business of selling records is contracting, and to such a degree people are very dependent on 'You gotta get that radio be suitable to, you gotta sell these singles, you gotta sell these ring tones,'" Legend explained. "And we made the anti-that album basically, and I imagine it's going to work."

"You know it's a infamy when in 2010 making an album of music is now a risky substance to do," chimed in ?uestlove.

Work on "Wake Up!" started sum of ~ units years ago, but then Legend went on a tour to excite his last album, 2008's "Evolver," while the Roots recorded their ninth CD, "How I Got Over," and worked in the manner that the house band for "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."

Legend related coming back to finish the CD allowed them "to live by music, live with the arrangements and really develop them."

While Legend and the Philadelphia-based Roots hadn't worked unitedly in the past, Legend says he remembers passing off his demo to ?uestlove at what time he attended the University of Pennsylvania in the 1990s.

It wasn't an instant musical connection.

"He missed out is all I'm saw!" Legend said with a smile as ?uestlove pulled up his shirt to hide his assurance.

"He thinks I tea-coastered his demo, like it's in some place under my chocolate mug," ?uestlove said.

Bing: Lambert's risque expedition

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Glam rocker Adam Lambert kept his pledge to Malaysia's government, steering clear of sexually provocative moves at a concord protested by Islamic activists Thursday.

The openly gay "American Idol" racer-up thrilled thousands of fans with his impeccable vocals and facetious showmanship for more than an hour at a stadium in Kuala Lumpur, the largest city in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

But outside the stadium Thursday night, dozens of members of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, the community's biggest opposition group, waved banners that read, "Muslim students assert gay icon in our country" and "Not our culture" with pictures of Lambert kissing any other man.

The demonstration did not disrupt the show, which Lambert had pledged earlier this week to emphasis down slightly in accordance to Malaysian government guidelines.

Footage of Lambert locking lips with a male musician at many of his shows are widely available on the Internet. But in Malaysia, the only kiss the congregation saw was one that Lambert blew to them in between songs.

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"Ladies and gentlemen, tonight's sight is about love," Lambert said, midway through energetic performances of his U.S. Top 10 strike "Whataya Want From Me," "If I Had You" and "For Your Entertainment."

"I exercise the mind some people have a problem with me kissing a guy forward stage," Lambert, 28, told reporters hours before the concert. "But you comprehend, as much as I hate to compromise any time, it's besides important for me to bring to the people of Malaysia my unfold."

Several Malaysian government officials were at the stadium to monitor Lambert's playing.

Nurhazwani Hifni, a 25-year-old accountant at the concert, declared she was grateful that Lambert respected Malaysia's regulations, but added that Lambert's flamboyance and sexuality did not worry her.

"As for me, personally I don't mind," Nurhazwani afore~. "All the fans are here for the music."

In recent years, divers female Western pop stars, including Gwen Stefani and Fergie, revamped their clothes and avoided skimpy costumes to perform in Malaysia following criticism by the Islamic opposition party that they were negative influences for Muslim youngsters.

Singers Demi Lovato and Taio Cruz made the manifesto Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Eminem and Bieber are each up instead of favorite pop/rock artist and album, and the rapper is besides nominated for favorite artist and album with Perry, Ke$ha and Lady Gaga.

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Lady Antebellum is nominated on this account that favorite band, duo or group in the pop/rock and land categories, along with favorite country album, favorite adult contemporary artist and the breakthrough consummate performer award.

Music fans can choose winners in the show's nine categories ~ the agency of voting online. Nominees were selected based on chart ratings for sales and radio and Internet wanton.

The American Music Awards will be presented Nov. 21 at the Nokia Theatre and broadcast live forward ABC. Bon Jovi, Usher and Pink are slated to perform.

Singers Demi Lovato and Taio Cruz made the manifesto Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Eminem and Bieber are each up beneficial to favorite pop/rock artist and album, and the rapper is also nominated for favorite artist and album with Perry, Ke$ha and Lady Gaga.

More: 2010 Fall Music Guide

Lady Antebellum is nominated as being favorite band, duo or group in the pop/rock and inhabitants categories, along with favorite country album, favorite adult contemporary artist and the breakthrough master-hand award.

Music fans can choose winners in the show's nine categories by voting online. Nominees were selected based on chart ratings for sales and radio and Internet perform.

The American Music Awards will be presented Nov. 21 at the Nokia Theatre and broadcast live forward ABC. Bon Jovi, Usher and Pink are slated to perform.

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason says the iconic move backward and forward band could reunite periodically for charity concerts.

The group last performed simultaneously at the Live 8 concert in London in 2005, but Mason says other thing performances are possible.

"I think all of us would like the pattern of repeating the Live 8 concept … something that's not unavoidably for us, but do something for the right reasons and enjoy doing it," he told BBC News.

"That's what I'd like, and I reason the others might well see eye to eye."

Mason indicates the momentum for this was a small concert in July 2010.

Bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour famously hew down out in the 1980s and that estrangement continued even after Live 8.

But then the pair performed three Pink Floyd classics for the Hoping Foundation, that helps Palestinian children, in England in July. After the show, Waters related the performance was "great. End of story. Or possibly beginning."

Mason before-mentioned Live 8 provided a "template for something we would do another time. I think it would be a very nice way for a band to gently move towards retirement, by doing shows absolutely for alms-giving rather than for more income."

Founded in 1965 by university students Waters, Mason, Richard Wright and Syd Barrett, the assign places to added Gilmour in 1968 after Barrett left.

Keyboard player Wright died of cancer in 2008 at century 65 and Barrett died of pancreatic cancer in 2006.

The bond — with hit albums such as The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall — has sold 200 very great number albums worldwide.

Bing: Lambert's risque course

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Adam Lambert pledged Tuesday to obey Malaysian rule rules that forbid the flamboyant, openly gay glam rocker from kissing anyone onstage at a planned contrive this week, but he called it "a tough decision."

The "American Idol" courier-up, who is touring Asia, told The Associated Press in Hong Kong that his "force goal is to keep people entertained — not to make them uncomfortable." Lambert is slated to perform Thursday at a stadium in Muslim-majorship Malaysia's biggest city, Kuala Lumpur.

Lambert has agreed to give ~ to restrictions against stripping, jumping and kissing onstage, said Yuen-See Cho, a delegated for concert co-organizer Sony Music Entertainment Malaysia.

"It's a thing I'm doing out of respect," Lambert said in an parley with the AP ahead of his Hong Kong concert. "It's exactly one little thing. Man kissing another man is something that management really doesn't appreciate."

"I think it's a tough firmness to make, but to me, there are so many amazing fans in Malaysia that it's added important for me to be able to come and do my conduct there for them and entertain them and thank them for supporting me," he added.

Lambert is known to at times lock lips with a male musician during his concerts. At remain year's American Music Awards, he also dragged a female dancer around by the ankles and had a dancer simulate oral sex put ~ him.

The 28-year-old's planned concert has drawn objections from the repugnance Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, which in the past also criticized concerts by Gwen Stefani, Avril Lavigne and other artists it considers to exist bad role models for youngsters.

Cho of Sony Music said Lambert had "agreed to good-will the guidelines that are set by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage. We be obliged shared with him in terms of what are the dos and dress in'ts ... dressing and stuff like that."

Malaysia's Islamic opposition alliance claimed Lambert was advocating homosexuality, but the singer said on Twitter slow Monday that his show "promotes living ANY lifestyle that includes the exemption from restraint. to seek love and intimacy. Gay, straight, bi, young or pre-existing. It's all inclusive."

The party also pointed out that Lambert is known since racy performances.

Lambert's music is popular in Malaysia, and crowd of his fans say his sexuality doesn't bother them. Sodomy — in like manner consensual — is punishable by 20 years in prison in Malaysia, no more than prosecutions are rare.

In recent years, several female pop stars, including Stefani and Fergie, revamped their habiliments and avoided skimpy costumes to perform in Malaysia.

Singers Demi Lovato and Taio Cruz made the notification Tuesday in Los Angeles.

Eminem and Bieber are each up as being favorite pop/rock artist and album, and the rapper is furthermore nominated for favorite artist and album with Perry, Ke$ha and Lady Gaga.

More: 2010 Fall Music Guide

Lady Antebellum is nominated conducive to favorite band, duo or group in the pop/rock and nation categories, along with favorite country album, favorite adult contemporary artist and the breakthrough sketcher award.

Music fans can choose winners in the show's nine categories through voting online. Nominees were selected based on chart ratings for sales and radio and Internet perform on.

The American Music Awards will be presented Nov. 21 at the Nokia Theatre and broadcast live without interrupti~ ABC. Bon Jovi, Usher and Pink are slated to perform.