Just ask Tupac, Lil' Wayne, or, hell, even Jim Morrison: sometimes a good stint behind bars is just what the spin doctor ordered for selling a ton of records. You may as well add Buju Banton to that list, because even as the reggae star languishes in a Tampa-area jail awaiting retrial on federal drug charges, his new album is tearing up the charts.
Buju's growing fanbase, meanwhile, doesn't want the crooner stuck in the joint any longer. A federal judge is set to rule tomorrow on whether to grant Banton bail, and a fan group is close to delivering 15,000 signatures demanding that the "legendary musician" be freed.
Banton, who lives in Tamarac, was arrested in Sarasota in December after following a man to a warehouse full of cocaine. The man, Alexander Johnson, was a federal plant who had spent months wiretapping the music star talking about drugs and goading him into getting into a drug deal.
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