Atlanta jails are starting to look like the audience at a hip hop awards show. Da Brat got a little rowdy last night — smashing a bottle of rum into a waitress's face — and then got a little arrested. Funny how that works.

Witnesses told police the incident started with an argument between Harris, 33, and a waitress at Studio 72, a club owned by Jermaine Dupri, the Atlanta record producer and rapper.

The argument escalated to shoving, witnesses said; then Harris is accused of grabbing a bottle of rum and hitting the waitress in the face. The victim was taken to the hospital with cuts on her face and above her eye.

Harris is being held at the DeKalb County jail.

New VH1 reality show idea: Celebrity Probation Club. [WSBTV]

In the most shocking celebrity arrest of 2007, Amy Winehouse was nabbed by police in Norway for marijuana possession. Marijuana? That's embarrassingly tame. She must have already used up all the crack and heroin by the time the cops came.

[MG]

The Atlanta-Journal Constitution has some photos of what feds found in T.I.'s house and car. When did T.I., who was denied bail, have his last live performance? We should probably savor that moment, since it's looking like that's the last we will see of him for the next, oh, 10 or so years.

[AJC]

• Yung Joc continues trying to have a a hit as big as "It's Goin' Down." [PE]

• Black women in South Carolina struggle to choose their favorite presidential candidates and administer relaxers at the same time. [NYT]

• Jamie Foxx is a sad clown. [SP]

• If Tiny is really pregnant, and I hope she's not, considering her boyfriend's current situation, then whose marijuana and Ecstasy was she carrying when T.I. got arrested? [SR]

• Speaking of T.I. he was just denied bail. Tough break. [AHH]

Was it a calculated move for the feds to arrest T.I. before he was set to perform at the BET Hip Hop Awards (and subsequently win some top honors), thus humiliating the rapper and ruining a well-planned show? Probably. Would we have a lot more to complain about if the authorities hadn't actually found a shitload of evidence that T.I. was trying to illegally buy machine guns with silencers? Definitely.

It is a serious crime with potentially serious jail time, compounded by the fact that Harris, a convicted felon, cannot own any firearms, let alone the ones that the feds accuse him of buying, or the three they allegedly found in his car, or the ones they say were tucked in his bedroom safe that used a fingerprint scan for access.

Saturday, a few hours before the BET Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta bestowed upon him the "Best CD of the Year" award, Harris, 27, might also have earned himself up to 10 years in federal prison. His first court appearance on the weapons charges is Monday afternoon.

Also busted in the sting — Young Dro, Mac Boney, and T.I.'s girlfriend Tiny, who was arrested for possession of marijuana and Ecstasy. The AJC has all the sorry, sorry details.

I guess Lil Kim figured that if Foxy Brown did it, why can't she? She may have failed to realize that Foxy is now languishing in Rikers Island with a jacked up weave because of (among many, many other things) the recent lies she fed the cops.

When Kim got pulled over late last week for driving around a Lamborghini with no plates, she tried to talk her way out of it the only way a Brooklyn-raised female rapper knows how.

Kim's story changed once more when she told police that she was actually licensed to drive in New Jersey but forgot her license. Turns out she's not licensed anywhere.

During the incident, said the source, Kim stayed calm and cool, but when cameras showed up, whoa Nelly! "She became belligerent, loud and obnoxious. She proclaimed that if she was the average person, this wouldn't have been a problem." Since when is driving without a valid license or license plates not a problem?

So I wonder what Kim's probation status is right now? If she violated it with this stunt, I bet she and Foxy Brown could share a cell!

[TMZ]

Eve's SCRAM, which was a present from the judge in her DUI case, ain't all it's cracked up to be. Plus, it's totally does not go with leopard-print peeptoes.

She's been wearing her alcohol monitoring device for a month, but Eve said she can't get used to the hefty ankle bracelet.

"It's the most annoying thing," she told PEOPLE Tuesday night at Tao Nightclub in Las Vegas. "When they told me I was getting it on, I thought it was going to be like a beeper, but it's like a pair of Bose headphones."

I'm sure it is annoying. Almost as annoying as it would have been if you had drunkenly crashed into a person with your gold Maserati instead of a highway divider.

[People]

I don't want to write about this, mainly because I'm bitter. The very day I joke about how irrelevant the DeBarge family is, news breaks that the head honcho (that would be El) got arrested, and his mug gets splashed on every blog like he's Lindsay Lohan or something.

Well, here he is. El Debarge, arrested on domestic violence charges, which he was eventually cleared for. He's still being held because of a variety of outstanding warrants, including vandalism, drugs, and driving with a suspended license. Who would have thought people still cared?

What's next, Rockwell on the front page of the New York Times?

[TMZ]

Foxy Brown can try all she wants, but I'm pretty sure the judge is fed up enough with her shenanigans that she will let the three-months pregnant erstwhile rapper stew on Riker's Island until her scheduled court date on Sept. 7.

Inga Marchand (that's Foxy to you) filed a lawsuit with the court yesterday, claiming that she was suffering in prison. As I hinted above, the judge wasn't buying it. Her lawyer vows to appeal, although I would think that sitting down and shutting up until next week would go a long way toward proving that she is mature enough to remain within the confines of her parole next time. But that's just me.

[AHH]

Dear Foxy Brown,

I hate to start out with an insult, but the craziest thing about your notoriety in the media these days is the fact that you are not, and haven't been in ages, famous. You are, in the sense that random people know your name, but you certainly aren't famous for your music, which, despite the fact that you recently signed a new record deal, seems to have been put on the back burner in recent years due to all of your anger-related mischievousness. And the sudden deafness, of course. My point is, you are now a member of the Paris Hilton school of being famous for bad behavior. And I'm telling you right now — it's not a good school.

Now you're pregnant and in jail. Maybe if you lived in LA, were from a privileged background, demonstrated a marked change in behavior since your initial arrest (this includes not assaulting your neighbor with a Blackberry and lying to police), and actually showed up to your probation hearings on time, you would have gotten a cushy 82 minute jail-stay a la Nicole Richie. But none of those things fit the bill, unfortunately. And in a cell you sit until September 7. That should be plenty of time to figure out how you're going to tackle this whole probation thing the next time around.

XOXO,

Lauren

[Image Source: Pretty on the Outside]

• Laurie Ann Gibson's obligatory explanation video for her and Diddy's Making the Band 4 blow up, complete with the "creative editing" excuse. Filming it in a carriage in Central Park was a nice touch. [C&D]

• I have no reason for expecting more from Jamie Foxx than this, but I do. [Bossip]

• Apparently, Nicole Richie was more surprised than we were by her short stint in jail. [TMZ]

• The latest on the rumor mill is that Toni Braxton is suffering from breast cancer, which I guess kind of trumps her check-bouncing issues. [SR]

• The College Dropout wants kids to stay in school. [AHH]

Paris is dying inside right now. Unbeknownst to the blogs, or the paparazzi, or the television journalists who were busy clamoring to cover the announcement of Lindsay Lohan's ridiculously lenient criminal charges and her guilty plea, Nicole Richie quietly entered jail to begin her four-day sentence for DUI.

She was processed, her mug shot was taken, and she was put in a cell. Thirty minutes later, she was released due to jail overcrowding. I'm searching my soul to come up with the same outrage I felt when Paris Hilton was released early (before she was sent back), and I can't really find it — particularly when the prosecution just played total softball with Lindsay Lohan over her drug charges and multiple DUIs. Oh well.

We all know who's not throwing her a welcome home party.

[TMZ]

• She had a bra on guys. That does not count as "flashing her boobs." [SP]

• Lindsay Lohan avoids felony charges, and any serious jail time, in part because the judge took into account her unstable upbringing. This makes total since, since all the blacks and Latinos flooding our prison system had such wonderful home-lives. [MG]

• Finally, someone from the NAACP says something rational about Michael Vick. [MSNBC]

• Meanwhile, someone else says something irrational about Michael Vick. And all straight people, I guess. [QT]

• Watch the first episode of the New Orleans-themed cop show starring Anthony Anderson at AOL. [BV]

Foxy Brown's reign of terror was brought to an abrupt halt this morning during a probation hearing, which she showed up for 45 minutes late. The judge decided that her many extracurricular activities were a violation of her probation. Ya think?

Despite being three months pregnant, engaged, and having a new record and reality TV (or course) deal, the judge threw Foxy Brown in jail until Sept. 7. According to ABC 7, which I'm watching right now, the judge called her behavior "offensive at best and criminal at worst."

Because these sorts of things happen in threes, who will be the celeb to round out the pregnant-and-in-jail trifecta started by Nicole Richie. Does Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon have any outstanding warrants?

[NYP, ABC7]

Vivica Fox, officially a member of Hollywood's "I'm Either Too Stupid or Think I'm Too Good To Call A Cab" Club, has been ordered by a Los Angeles judge to abstain from drinking alcohol until her Sept. 5th court date.

Fox was arrested for DUI in March, and it later came out that she famously played the race card and acted like an all-around drunken ass during the entire incident.

The judge said Fox is allowed to be around alcohol due to the nature of her work, but cannot consume it. The nature of her work? Unless you work in a restaurant or a club, I don't see how not being around alcohol for a month is going to affect your business. And anyway, how are they going to prove she hasn't taken a sip? Please say they're going to give her a SCRAM!

[E!]