Should T.I. have given Paris Hilton some pointers about the politics of being famous and incarcerated? He clearly handled his probation violation situation with more aplomb than our least-favorite heiress.

He tells Blender magazine, "(Fame) made it easier because I had a reputation that preceded me, so there wasn't a lot of stand-offish situations. People only gonna mess with you if the s**t you kickin' ain't real. C.O.s, though, some of them would go out of their way to make my life a little harder sometimes. I'd ask them to keep the phone on an extra 30 minutes - they'd cut it off 30 minutes early. Just to say, 'it doesn't matter who you are.'"

So all Paris has to do is take advantage of the reputation that preceded her, and she'll be fine in prison. Let's see, she is known for being dumb, slutty and having an large sense of entitlement. On second thought, maybe she shouldn't try to model her experience after T.I.'s.

[SP]