Apparently, there's a limit on how much Master P can get away with.
The rapper and his brother, Silkk the Shocker, were formally charged Monday with carrying unregistered loaded guns after police stopped their car near the University of California, Los Angeles in January.
P (born Percy Miller) and Silkk (real name: Vyshonn Miller) were arrested on Jan. 27 after cops discovered two loaded guns hidden underneath the seats of P's leased Chrysler 300M after a routine traffic stop.
Per police reports, the brothers were driving near the school when UCLA campus cops pulled over their vehicle shortly before midnight for failing to have a license plate, according to University of California Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Greenstein.
Two other men who were in the car were released, but the Millers were not so lucky.
Police busted the brothers on investigation of unlawfully carrying firearms and subsequently transferred them to the West Hollywood Sheriff's station, where they were booked on the felony charges and spent three hours in custody before they were each released on $35,000 bond.
Now, P faces a felony gun possession charge for the arrest. He is scheduled to enter a plea Wednesday at his arraignment.
It's unlikely that P is spending much time sweating the charge. The entrepreneurial multimedia mogul has been characteristically busy with several projects lately outside of his No Limit hip-hop empire.
The New Orleans native and current Los Angeles resident has been making some notable cameos on television. He recently appeared on the Nickelodeon show Romeo! with his son, Lil' Romeo, in addition to making a 2004 appearance on CSI: NY.
The actor-producer-rapper, whose film credits include I Got the Hookup, also recently sold his latest film starring Lil' Romeo, the Dallas Jackson-penned Uncle P, to New Line Cinema for release this summer.
Silkk, meanwhile, has struggled to match the success of his breakthrough disc, 1998's Charge It 2 da Game. His most recent album, last year's Based on a True Story, barely registered, debuting at 88 on the Billboard 200 and quickly dropping off.
Whatever problems Silkk and P have in their professional or personal lives, they clearly pale in comparison to the issues faced by a third Miller brother, C Murder.
The incarcerated rapper, who was convicted of second-degree murder in 2003, has been making headlines lately for covertly filming a music video while in jail in Louisiana.
Despite the rapper's recent setback regarding a retrial for one of his murder raps, C-Murder seems optimistic that he can still be successful in the music biz--from behind bars. His 15-track disc, The Truest S--t I Ever Said, hit record stores last week.
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