Akon Defends T.I

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Akon has leant his support to jailed rapper TI who faces various charges of buying illegal weapons.

Akon has told MTV he thinks his friend and fellow hip hopper has been set up. Though he says that TI should have made sure he had better people around him to help him avoid getting into trouble with the law.

Akon: "It's obvious he was set up. But sometimes when you're in a position of that stature and you're that big ... you just don't allow that energy around you. You have to have people around you to let you know or avoid that energy. Even if he was a [gun] collector, naturally, you get a license to collect. That's just common sense".