Pitchfork

You have to love T.I.'s lawyers. The guy gets himself caught trying to buy machine guns and silencers, and his attorneys somehow turned that into a one-year sentence and 1000 hours of community service even though he's a convicted felon. And now, Tip is turning all that community service time into a new reality show, just so it doesn't, you know, go to waste.

To be fair, "Road to Redemption: 45 Days to Go," the MTV "docu-reality" show that will chronicle T.I.'s last days of freedom, 25th Hour-stye, won't count toward his community service hours. It also stands to be the rare musician-based reality series that isn't completely shrill and embarrassing, partly because T.I. has a vast reservoir of natural charm and partly because it won't be showing him in fat camp or whatever.

The series will follow T.I. fulfilling those community service hours, as well as spending time with his family and recording Paper Trail. The first episode of "Road to Redemption" will air on MTV at 9 p.m. on February 10.