Rapper Kurtis Blow Busted With Pot After TSA Body Scan
Back-in-the-day rapper Kurtis Blow (pictured) has been busted by Los Angeles International Airport’s (LAX) TSA employees after they discovered marijuana stashed in one of his pockets.
The highly controversial body scan highlighted an odd protrusion in his pants pocket (okay, no jokes here!), so officials investigated further by performing a routine pat down. When less than an ounce of the drug was found, the officers merely handed the 51-year-old, who is now an ordained minister, a citation. When less than an ounce of marijuana is uncovered during a routine airport search, the summons is a customary procedure.
Blow, whose real name is Kurtis Walker Combs, was the first rapper to be signed to a major label, Mercury Records, when he was just 20 years old. His most popular record and one of hip-hop’s earliest hits ‘The Breaks’ went gold and sold more than half a million copies back in 1980.
Over the last year, Blow, who has immersed himself in Christianity, founded The Hip-Hop Church, where he serves as rapper, DJ, worship leader and licensed minister. There are numerous hip-hop churches scattered throughout the United States, and he is involved with quite a few of them. He has committed himself to bringing young people back into the church and feels strongly that only hip-hop can reel ’em in.
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