Coolio says this whole situation with him and the crack charges is crazy. In essence … he doesn’t give a f*ck! No really, that’s what he said! He told TMZ the drugs weren’t his and you’d have to be an idiot to put drugs into your bag, saying that he’s traveled successfully with marijuana for years. All you do is put it in your pocket (good tip!).

But he says even when his name is cleared, the damage has been done. No one will hear about it not being his. They’ll just remember him getting busted with crack.

He has a point there! Peep what he said below:

“Everybody got a family member or a friend that’s into something that you can’t control those types of situations,” Coolio explained. “I just happened to get caught up in the scene…It was just a situation I had no control of, something was in my bag and I didn’t even know it was in my bag. They could have did DNA and all kinds of stuff to find out if it was mine but they didn’t. They just got the bag and assumed it was mine…If you do bring drugs to the airport, you don’t put ‘em in your bag you put ‘em in your pocket. I used to smoke marijuana and I traveled with it for years, never put it in my bag. I always had it in my pocket. I’m not dumb like that but you know…That was some bullsh*t. The unfortuante thing about this is when my name is cleared, more people are not gonna hear about it than heard about it. That’s life in the city, that’s life of a celebrity. My family and friends know it’s not me. God knows it’s not me. In essence I don’t give a f*ck.”

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Following his arrest last week at LAX airport in Los Angeles, rapper Coolio has formally been charged with possession of cocaine and battery, the L.A. District Attorney’s office announced earlier today.

Coolio, whose real name is Artis Leon Ivey, was arrested on March 6 at Los Angeles International Airport after police searched his luggage and allegedly found cocaine. According to police, the 45-year-old rapper allegedly grabbed a luggage screener’s arm to prevent the search.

He is charged with one felony count of drug possession and two misdemeanors, battery and possession of a smoking device and is scheduled to be arraigned on April 3. If convicted, he faces up to three years state prison.

According to TMZ, rapper Coolio (real name: Artis Leon Ivey Jr.) was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for drug possession Friday afternoon. Coolio’s drug of choice? Crack cocaine!

We’re told the rapper was going through a security screening to get to his Southwest Airlines flight when a screener found crack cocaine on his person. Sources close to the situation tell us Coolio — real name Artis Leon Ivey, Jr — got physical with the screener at some point during the incident. Coolio posted $10,000 bail was released at 3:22 PM.

Getting busted with weed is one thing … but crack?! Wow! And at an airport of all places. All that money and you mean to tell us home boy couldn’t afford to pay someone else to smuggle his crack through airport security? We’re sure a crack carrier wouldn’t set him back 10 G’s.

Rapper T.I. performed at the New Year’s Eve celebration at Gansevoort South in Miami. The Atlanta rapper hosted the event.

Ludacris performed on stage during “New Years Eve with Carson Daly” in Times Square in New York City.

Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush got drunk and partied (like everybody else) at LAX Nightclub in Vegas. I just realized that we left them out of our Hottest Couples of 2008 post. How the hell did that happen? Oh well, they’ll be around in ’09.

Singer/actor Tyrese hit up a New Years Eve party at Fontainebleau in Miami.

Singer Fergie attended a New Years Eve party at The Venetian Hotel and Casino Resort in Las Vegas.

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