Former rap diva-turned-VH1 reality star ('Surreal Life,' 'Celebrity Fit Club') Da Brat was sentenced to three years in prison for hitting a woman with a rum bottle at Jermaine Dupri's Atlanta nightclub, Studio 72, last year.

According to Dekalb County police, the rapper, whose real name is Shawntae Harris, and the waitress got into an altercation resulting in a "deep laceration" and permanent scarring on the 23-year-old waitress' cheek.

This wasn't the rapper's first run-in with the law. Da Brat was arrested in March of 2000, for allegedly pistol-whipping a partygoer at Buckhead hot spot Chili Pepper.

soKe.flace('tests-boombox.celebrity.mugshots.popup', '476', '600');

var uid = new Date().getTime();
var flashProxy = new FlashProxy(uid, 'http://www.aolcdn.com/_media/modtools/kit_swfpublisher_javascriptflashgateway.swf');

var flashvars = {};
try { flashvars.lcId = uid; } catch (Exc) { };
try { flashvars.outlet_w = '476'; } catch (Exc) { };
try { flashvars.outlet_h = '600'; } catch (Exc) { };
try { flashvars.targetDivId = 'tests-boombox.celebrity.mugshots.popup'; } catch (Exc) { };
try { flashvars.targetAds = 'tests-boombox.celebrity.mugshots.popup'; } catch (Exc) { };
try { flashvars.omniture_tracker = '0'; } catch (Exc) { };
try { flashvars.adrefresh_wrapper = '1'; } catch (Exc) { };
try { flashvars.appswfURL = soKe.fv('http://xml.channel.aol.com/xmlpublisher/fetch.v2.xml?option=expand_relative_urls&dataUrlNodes=uiConfig,feedConfig,entry&id=345519&pid=345518&uts=1219433372'); } catch (Exc) { };

if (typeof(screen_name) != 'undefined') try { flashvars.userName = screen_name; } catch (Exc) { };

var params = {};
try { params.wmode = 'opaque'; } catch (Exc) { };
try { params.quality = 'best'; } catch (Exc) { };
try { params.allowscriptaccess = 'always'; } catch (Exc) { };

var attributes = {};
try { attributes.id = 'outlet'; } catch (Exc) { };

top.exd_space.refresher.ads2Refresh(new Array(
'tests-boombox.celebrity.mugshots.popup',
new Array('93243967', '300', '250', '0')
));
top.exd_space.refresher.iFrm2Refresh(new Array(
'tests-boombox.celebrity.mugshots.popup',
new Array('Placement_ID', '1368480'),
new Array('Domain_ID', '1012776')
));

top.exd_space.refresher.mmx('tests-boombox.celebrity.mugshots.popup', 'http://www.aolcdn.com/_media/channels/ke_blank.html', '');

swfobject.embedSWF('http://cdn.channel.aol.com/cs_feed_v1_6/csfeedwrapper.swf', 'tests-boombox.celebrity.mugshots.popup-swf', '476', '600', '8.0.0', 'http://www.aolcdn.com/ke/swfobject/expressinstall.swf', flashvars, params, attributes);

top.exd_space.refresher.launcher(
'tests-boombox.celebrity.mugshots.popup',{
size:['476t'],
photoNumber:['16'],
title:['Music Mug Shots'],
numimages:['40'],
baseImageURL:['http://o.aolcdn.com/feedgallery//'],
imageurl:['feed/i/m/mugshotsmusicst1007kw/da-brat-mugshot-394-022708.jpg'],
credit:[''],
source:['Getty'],
caption:['Rapper Da Brat was arrested for allegedly assaulting a nightclub waitress with a bottle of rum. Da Brat, who is a pal of Mariah Carey, got into the alleged fracas at Jermaine Dupri's 'Studio 72' nightclub in Atlanta. Problems began in the early hours of Thursday morning when the waitress bumped into the rapper, sparking a fight. Da Brat, whose real name is Shawntae Harris, was arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault. It is not Harris' first run-in with the law. In 2000 she was arrested and pleaded guilty to pistol-whipping a woman in an Atlanta nightclub. She was eventually placed on probation for it.(Splash News)'],
dims:['http://o.aolcdn.com/dims/PGMC/5/234/289/70/'],
showDisclaimerText:[''],
disclaimerText:[''],
CSS_Title:[''],
CSS_Caption:[''],
CSS_Disclaimer:[''],
CSS_Container:[''],
CSS_PhotoWell:[''],
CSS_Buttons:[''],
CSS_BtnOver:[''],
topMargin:['97,0,234,289,428,289,0,0']
}
);

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