Why trouble has a way of finding T.I.

Why trouble has a way of finding T.I.

What is it with the magnetic attraction of Clifford Harris, better known as Grammy-Award winning superstar rapper, "T.I.":http://www.thegrio.com/entertainment/king-of-the-south-sets-sights-on-a-new-territory-hollywood.php, to law enforcement officers? After his Wednesday night arrested in West Hollywood, Calif. with new wife, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle on suspicion of "possession of methamphetamines":http://www.thegrio.com/entertainment/tis-comeback-could-be-derailed-with-arrest.php, the self-proclaimed, "King of the South", doesn't seem satisfied with his reign and all that comes with it. With his empire potentially crumbling around him and naysayers boasting loudly, "I told you so," all I could think about was being a high school sophomore and playing his first album, _I'm Serious_, just loud enough to enjoy but quiet enough as to not perk my Moms ears up to the lyrics, "I'm [lady part] pumper number 1." I was hearing the album but I wasn't listening. It was years before I dissected the album's message and realized "Tip" had a keen understanding of the pitfalls in the life he was trying to escape and the opportunity rap gave him to do that. Sure, it was an ode to the life and the people in it, but nestled nicely between all that was a warning; this lifestyle doesn't have longevity. It's been managing the pressures of staying on the straight and narrow that has been the hardest part for him. But why? After every fall from grace he's "successfully rehabilitated his image":http://www.thegrio.com/good-news/tis-plan-to-redeem-his-career-with-a-simple-plan.php, projecting himself as humbled, reformed and respectable. Again and again, he's squandered good will with lapses in judgment only to put himself at our mercy in a manner that's so easy to forgive. He says all the right things, mentors all the right kids, puts his money behind all the right causes, but at what point do we question the sincerity of his, seemingly, heartfelt statements on being a role model and changed man? Are they even his words? He certainly delivers them like their his own but are we all being played for fools? He's openly admitted before that the bulk of his life lessons have been learned by trial and error but how else do you explain someone whose just five months removed from serving a seven-month stint in federal prison, three-months in a halfway house, and despite all that, currently co-starring in the number "#1 movie in the country":http://www.thegrio.com/entertainment/takers-a-colorblind-caper-in-the-classic-tradition.php, even risking being caught with the aroma of marijuana or Ecstacy-like tablets in their possession?