Atlanta rapper T.I. will turn his legal issues into a reality series that will air on MTV in the beginning of 2009.

According to Variety, MTV will give T.I. ´s fans an up close and personal look as he performs 1,000 hours of community service and readies for a one-year prison sentence, for possession of unregistered machine guns and silencers. The network plans to air the show some time soon after T.I. goes to jail in early 2009.

MTV has already reportedly ordered eight episodes of the series, which is being produced by Ish Entertainment and co-executive produced by T.I. The reality show will begin shooting this summer and will air shortly after T.I. is sentenced.

"Hopefully the mistakes I've made will be a lesson to today's youth and they won't go down that same path," T.I. said.

"We began the conversations in the middle of deliberations over what would happen to him," Ish's Michael Hirschorn told Variety. "The original idea for the show had him staging a series of interventions in each episode with people in danger. But when we visited him under house arrest, it felt much bigger and more powerful than we anticipated."

In related news, T.I.'s highly anticipated new album "Paper Trail" is due in stores in August.

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