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Rapper T.I. is turning his legal woes into an MTV docu series. Cabler will follow the hip-hop star as he performs more than 1,000 of community service before beginning to serve his one-year prison sentence next spring. Ish Entertainment is behind the untitled series, which has scored a six-episode order from MTV. Cameras already chronicled T.I.’s release from house arrest, and shooting will start in earnest this summer, leading up to his return to jail in early 2009. MTV plans to air the show some time soon after that. T.I. -- real name Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. -- has had several brushes with the law, and he was arrested in October just hours before he was to be honored at the BET Hip-Hop Awards. The rapper, who had already been convicted for selling crack cocaine in the late 1990s, was charged with possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers and possession of firearms by a convicted felon. The Grammy winner, nicknamed “the King of the South” for his Atlanta-influenced rhym...