Ja Rule wants to keep busy behind bars, he says he plans to write a book and take up the guitar Rapper Ja Rule has been sentenced to up to two years in prison on gun charges by a court in New York.
Dressed in a grey sweat suit, he said "see y'all later" to fans and family as he was handcuffed and led away from the Lower Manhattan courthouse.The multi-platinum rapper and actor plead guilty to attempted criminal weapon possession last December after police found a gun in his car in 2007.
Ja Rule, 35, could be released in as little as 18 months for good behaviour.
Police said they stopped the rap star's Maybach sports car for speeding and found a loaded, unregistered .40-caliber semiautomatic gun in a rear door.
He was charged under a New York law that generally bars people from having firearms outside their homes or workplaces.>>>>>>
