Ja Rule's "Pain Is Love" As He Is Sent To Jail (PHOTOS)

Rapper Ja Rule, 35, is headed to prison for two years after being sentenced yesterday in a 2007 gun charge.

The platinum-selling rapper had plead guilty in December after being charged with attempted criminal weapon possession. Authorities pulled the rapper over as he was leaving a concert in 2007, when they found a loaded semi-automatic 40-calibre pistol in the back seat. Ja Rule also faces the possibility of a federal prison sentence of 3 years for failing to pay taxes on more than $3 million in income

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Ninety minutes before his sentencing, Atkins sent a final message to his 50,000 Twitter followers: "Out on my patio having my last free moment I love all my fans Pain is love!!!"

He spent his last day of freedom Tuesday seeing the movie "X-Men: First Class" with his family, according to his Twitter feed.

His latest studio effort, "Pain is Love 2," is scheduled to be released later this summer and his manager, Ron Robinson, said he was putting the finishing touches on the album two nights ago.

A sentencing date has not been set.

Click on the next page to see Ja Rule in the courtroom.