As expected, rapper T.I. was sentenced today to one year and a day for attempting to purchase machine guns and silencers in 2007.

The Grand Hustle front man pleaded guilty to the charges in May of last year and was allowed to spend the past months as a free man, as long as he participated in community service acitivities that included his hit reality series Road To Redemption.

Tip, whose real name is Clifford Harris, will also be required to pay a $100,000 fine as a part of his sentencing.

“Today, I would like to say thank you to some, and apologize to all,” the rapper told U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell Jr., who handed down the sentence. (continue reading…)