When are musicians gonna learn? How many people need to be arrested at this border for musicians to be more careful? After Willie Nelson, Snoop Dogg and very recently Fiona Apple, rapper Nelly and his entourage were arrested a few days ago at the famous Texas checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, and then detained while the bus was being searched.
And it wasn't for nothing this time, the guy had 36 small bags of heroin (0.64 ounces), ten pounds, yes ten pounds, of marijuana in a large duffel bag, and a gun!
He and his entourage were all detained, but one of the guys, Brian Keith, took the responsibility and said drugs and gun were his, meaning Nelly and the other guys were free to go. Nelly declared: 'A member of my staff made an unfortunate decision to bring unlawful materials onto our tour bus. … Neither I nor anyone else on the tour bus was aware of his decision to bring these on board. Law enforcement officials did not press charges against anyone other than that individual.' Yes, sure!
Even though the situation isn’t even comparable with Fiona Apple's case, as she had so little (0.01 pounds of marijuana and hashish) and he had so much, but when you think about it, couldn’t someone have done the same thing for Fiona? I guess that’s the difference between a class artist and a stupid rapper, he let another person take the blame, she took full responsibility.
But I don’t understand this stupid drug war, it is so ridiculous! A guy with 10 pounds of drugs and a gun was freed, whereas a girl with 0.01 pounds spent time in jail and had to pay a $10,000 bond.