John Forte is Out

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December 22nd, 2008 44 Comments 14503 Views

Posted by Bossip Staff

Our boy Forte just touchdown on the streets after Bush pardoned him a month ago:

Grammy winning producer and rapper John Forte was released today (December 22) after serving seven years in prison on a drug smuggling conviction. The rapper gained his freedom after singer Carly Simon, Utah Senator Orrin Hatch and others assisted in getting the rapper’s conviction commuted via a pardon from President George Bush. Forte learned of his sentence being overturned on November 24 by a fellow inmate who watched the news on CNN. The Brooklyn rapper began his promising career in 1996 by writing two songs on the Grammy-winning, nine-times platinum Fugees’ classic The Score. Now 33-years-old and with a new lease on life, Forte’s lawyer explains that the rapper/producer wants to deter young people from following the path that landed him a mandatory minimum sentence of 14 years in federal prison.“He wants to help young kids understand they have options and help deter them from making some of the mistakes he made,” Forte’s lawyer Aarti Tandon told The New York Post. Forte’s former college roommate and longtime friend Talib Kweli is set to celebrate the former Refugee All-Star’s release tonight at BB Kings in New York City.

Glad to see a brother loose. We are sure that with the street cred that his 7 yr bid brings, rappers who were not even out of diapers are knocking down his door to get him featured now. We hope he leaves that crook Wyclef alone. He can probably add some substance and a newer approach to the failings that go on now in hip-hop.

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44 Responses to “John Forte is Out”

huss

12/22/08, 17:02:pm

***** that!!

blaq

12/22/08, 17:05:pm

John Forte report directly to the studio!!!! Hip Hop needs you.

charlieblanko

12/22/08, 17:06:pm

im with you blaq..totally…

circa-81

12/22/08, 17:07:pm

@ Blaq

Ditto.

huss

12/22/08, 17:07:pm

Dude was caught RED handed w/ millions of dollars of LIQUID COCAINE!!!

R U KIDDING ME?!

PARDON MUMIA!!!

BlackLADYDoctor

12/22/08, 17:10:pm

I have no idea why you’re glad to see this ‘brother’ loose, because there are a million dope dealers just like him locked up on lesser charges. Thank goodness he had the UPPER CRUST private school boyfriend connections otherwise he would be just another statistic like the rest of the drug king pins in the clinker.’

FREE MUMIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRING *****ATA HOME!!!!!!!!!! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!!!! While your at it FREE my great uncle LARRY HOOVER!

LOVE JONES FOR MR. PRESIDENT

12/22/08, 17:15:pm

Um, and why exactly was he pardoned? He was guilty right??

Sidebar: I thought that was a picture of Meki Phifer from 8 mile

Playlist

12/22/08, 17:20:pm

Bush only did this to get cool points with Black people

2DamTrill

12/22/08, 17:26:pm

***** Bush, and ***** Arnold schwarzenegger for not pardoning Tookie williams.

blaq

12/22/08, 17:38:pm

@2damtrill

For real, honestly John was pardoned because bush is drug dealer too

hmm

12/22/08, 17:41:pm

the pardoned him because he had some white power behind him and his motive in getting caught had nothing to do with ANYTHING that resembled black empowerment…

black empowerment movements that call for isolated solidarity are a security threat to white society at large. When you’re in there for killing white people out of revenge because they were plotting, conspiring, against your or your community…That’s why Tookie Williams and Mumia didn’t get out.

Forte went in on some different BS.

beautiful b

12/22/08, 17:45:pm

@ blaq

thats what im saying!!!
BIANCA HAND ON HIP MEGAPHONE IN HAND…MR FORTE UR NEEDED IN THE STUDIO SIR.

Soul Touch

12/22/08, 17:47:pm

…I was so in love with this man…

beautiful b

12/22/08, 17:51:pm

@ Soul Touch

LMAO…i know what u mean…his look just says he can keep a secret…let me leave it at that.

Txhustla15 (Austin's Finest)

12/22/08, 17:57:pm

huss

Dude was caught RED handed w/ millions of dollars of LIQUID COCAINE!!!

R U KIDDING ME?!

PARDON MUMIA!!!

** 100 percent agree also with Tookie as well

taj

12/22/08, 17:59:pm

I thought that Mekhei Phifer when he was in 8 mile lol

Soul Touch

12/22/08, 18:01:pm

@beautiful

LMAO, I feel you on that one.

charlieblanko

12/22/08, 18:03:pm

well i see what yall saying about the other brothers being locked up and detained, im just glad we got one out…he didnt rape or molest kids…so im good with forte..matter of fact, i dug the *****s flow back then, and thought he was a eclectic individual with outside and smart influential people on his side..i was right..

“while im eating mango’s in trinidad with attorneys.”-forte

always knew

12/22/08, 18:41:pm

I’m glad he’s out…even though h had a questionable past…

And YES, I cosign that “FREE MUMIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BRING *****ATA HOME!!!!!!!!!! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!!!! While your at it FREE my great uncle LARRY HOOVER!”

I wholeheartedly support that,as well!!

NeW OrLeANs QuEeN

12/22/08, 18:58:pm

Blackladydoctor LMAO at you!but you speak the truth

BAHAMAS/CHICAGO/CAYMAN GIRL

12/22/08, 19:24:pm

Wow, how the hell did they manage that? What us the connection even? This dude was in jail on a righteous charge, like no bull***** he got caught and he’s out??!! WOW!!!! The world in madness for real!

Capital G

12/22/08, 19:37:pm

R***** BUMBOCLAAT HAFFI PAY DEM WHA DO DI DIRTY WERK FI IM NUH…YOOT *****ITABOUT!

queendukes

12/22/08, 19:44:pm

head to the studio!

DJ's Mom

12/22/08, 20:00:pm

All I can say is…don’t mess this blessing up!

CriticXtreme

12/22/08, 20:51:pm

It was all an insane situation. Still Welcome home, John Forte!

Bill Bigsby

12/22/08, 21:40:pm

about time.

NY2CaliLvn

12/22/08, 22:12:pm

John Forte is lookin quite Yummy. Welcome home Black Man

CLOS35

12/22/08, 23:35:pm

WOW that shows the power of white people he was carly simons dealer and she got him pardoned by the *****ing president DAMN…

Omar

12/22/08, 23:58:pm

some of you people are amazing. bush pardons the guy, and that’s only fodder for you all to hate on bush even more. heaven forbid you praise the man for doing something good and right. and then some of you make YET ANOTHER THING about race when race has nothing to do with it. our country will never improve on its racial tension issues so long as SOME of you psychos are around. oh, and this includes bossip. i mean there have been 5234153 slams against bush, and this one time he does something that 98% of the readership here will like, bossip can’t even acknowledge that. shocker.

J

12/23/08, 00:17:am

Damn he fine.

Mock Rock Star

12/23/08, 01:02:am

Good to see U out bro…I remember I was writing U this long ***** letter while U were in jail back in ‘03 about how much I admired U, then I thought, “I don’t want a man behind bars” anywho…Forte U’rethe age that Jesus was said to do his ministry so if it’s your time to revive hip-hop then I’m glad U survived…now leave the drugs alone because they weren’t your friend…

Adiamondcenter

12/23/08, 01:42:am

..Welcome back….It’s *****ed up out here and maybe your music can help us get through these days…..I think it’s *****ed up that your not going straight to the bank cashing a check for your pain and suffering should have been givin to you by BUSH……but your out and that money will come back double when you hit that studio………

IsleZeus

12/23/08, 01:47:am

“John Forte report directly to the studio!!!! Hip Hop needs you”

***** HIP HOP. Bring back real soul and R&b… I’m so sick of this ghetto CRap!

anavywife

12/23/08, 07:23:am

damn he sexy as hell! I would f*ck him if i wasnt married

pm

12/23/08, 08:17:am

I wonder what he has to do for the man to pay for his get out of jail free card.

donnachang

12/23/08, 08:47:am

why does this pic turn me on?

LYKCAN_D

12/23/08, 08:49:am

Mr Forte can get it.

ChocolateKate

12/23/08, 10:36:am

Heaven’s Yes! I love me some John Forte and he is quite yummy looking! I cannot wait for him to get settled, brush the dust off and make some more killer production! He was on his way to being one of the illest, he just got deferred but NOW…HES BACK! Bring it baby!

Nico

12/23/08, 12:01:pm

Hmm Mr. Forte is fine! But why do I get the feeling that some of you think he’s gay. Is he? please tell me now, so I can stop crushing IMMEDIATELY.
And why the heck was he pardoned?

BLESSED

12/23/08, 15:14:pm

FREE BIG MEECH!!!!

rome

12/23/08, 15:30:pm

Dude is sick wittit! One of my favorites. Hated to see him go down when he did. Can’t answer for why all the other people are not free that probably should be, but hey ,”It must have been his time” he’s home ain’t he.

Rome pretending to be the other readers

P.S. note to self;

Don’t hate on this brothers good fortune,
continue to support and try to help free the people I think should be freed………hmmmmmmm

Ignorance is Contagious

12/23/08, 17:09:pm

I cant understand for the LIFE of me why the Black community is so quick to forgive Black men who sell drugs that destroy their communities but will degrade a woman with a past in a minute.

Just saying.

A Real Brother

12/23/08, 22:28:pm

So this low-life is caught red-handed poisoning his own people and *****isting the white man in destroying the black race and you say “glad to this this brother loose?”

Wow.

Then you further idolize his illegal behavior, the same illegal activity that lands thousands of black men in prison every year, by saying he can easily profit from his newfound “street cred.”

Double wow.

C-Red

12/24/08, 11:46:am

The real reason he is being released is because he got set up by one of bush’s henchman on the war on terrow. Apparantly, some shady stuff happened when they were looking for terrorists and a few cats got caught up on some charges. So Bush figures, that the Obama administartion will be doing some investigations and if he pardons these cats then they can’t investigate anything. John forte got some good white friends, but for a crime so big, what benefit does bush get with letting a black man who got caught with 1.4 million dollars of cocaine get? He don’t need no black vote and hell this *****ess off many white people. Notice Fox news hasn’t said anything and they hate *****s. John forte, just released a successful album and career just strated to go up, why would he personally accept the money and in an airport? He’s not even a gangster rapper or sings that type of music.