Ja Rule

Grab your trucker hat and charge up your Motorola Razr because we're headed back to the early 2000s!

It was a simpler time, when most of us still believed that George W. Bush was the height of political idiocy and Tom Brady was a human being who would eventually retire and not a robot from the future who's been reprogrammed by Bill Belichick to forget about John Connor and focus on racking up rings.

Apparently, this is the summer of nostalgia.

A Jurassic movie dominated at the box office, a Bush and a Clinton are in the race for the White House, the Full House is returning to TV, and in what might be the most surprising throwback of all - 50 Cent is all over the news.

As you've likely heard by now, The Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice reported to prison this week to begin serving a 15 month sentence on fraud charges.

Teresa may be feeling awfully alone these days, but she's far from the first celeb to get hauled off to the big house. Heck, she's not even the first Bravo reality star to get locked up in the past year!

In many ways, rappers are like professional athletes: 

They're fiercely competitive; many view their talent as their only way to escape awful circumstances; they often experience success at a very young age...and they're frequently broke before they hit their mid-twenties.

Jail. Prison. The clink. The slammer. Lockup. The brig.

Up the river. The pen. The pound. The black hole.

Ja Rule would like to make one thing very clear: He did not leave his wife for his male prison cellmate.

This rather hilarious rumor cropped up last week after a parody blog titled "Cream Bmp Daily" quoted Mrs. Ja Rule, Aisha Atkins, as saying of her husband:

Ja Rule is finally a free man, for real this time.

After being released from jail for gun possession only to be immediately jailed a second time for tax evasion, he's now served his sentence for the latter, too.

The good news for rapper Ja Rule today? He is officially out of an Upstate New York prison after serving most of his two-year sentence for gun possession.

The bad news? He headed straight into federal custody in a tax case.

Ja Rule may be a hard ass thug, but he couldn't escape the rule of law.

The rapper turned himself over to authorities to begin his two-year prison sentence in New York this afternoon, according to his manager, Seven.