Big Boi Arrested on Drug Charges

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Outkast rapper Big Boi was arrested on Sunday in Miami for possessing a variety of drugs including ecstasy pills, MDMA powder and Viagra without a prescription. The rapper also faces one charge for carrying drug parphernalia. According to TMZ, the rapper was busted by customs officials while exiting a cruise ship, and was briefly jailed before posting a $16,000 bond.

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Big Boi's attorney Daniel Kane issued a statement insisting that his client would beat the charges. "While Big Boi was traveling with his group and friends, a small amount of contraband was found in the collective luggage," said Kane. "I am confident when the entire facts are aired, Big Boi will be completely exonerated."

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“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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