Exiting the

Fayette County Jail Sunday evening after completing his three-day sentence

for skipping jury duty, rapper Jermaine Dupri Mauldin said he didn't want

to go back.

"I need

to let them know my new address ... I live in Buckhead now," said

the recording artist and record executive, who still owns a home in the

Dix-Lee-On subdivision in northern Fayette County.

"You got

people doing bad things out there and they got me in here," he said,

referring to the jail.

Mauldin answered

several questions from reporters before riding off in a chauffeured black

Range Rover SUV with Fulton County tags.

Jail employees

said Mauldin gave them no problems whatsoever.

"He was

real quiet," said one jail worker.

Mauldin was

sentenced to three days in jail by Superior Court Judge Christopher Edwards

for failing to report for jury duty in March of 1999. Mauldin had appealed

the sentence for contempt of court, but it was recently upheld by the

Georgia Court of Appeals.

Through his

attorneys, Mauldin said he couldn't appear for jury duty because he had

a previous commitment to perform in a rap concert in New Jersey on the

same date.

In the Court

of Appeals ruling, the judges made it clear that Mauldin willingly refused

to return for jury duty. They also refuted that the three-day jail sentence

was "cruel and unusual punishment" as Mauldin claimed.

"Mauldin

... made the conscious choice to instead honor a previously made commitment,"

the court wrote. The court also said the three-day sentence was justified

for missing three days of jury service.

Mauldin was

notified that he was scheduled to serve on jury duty for the week of March

1. He appeared that day and was asked to return two days later, which

he admits he didn't do.

At the time,

one of Mauldin's attorneys tried to gain a waiver of jury duty from the

court. However, an employee at the clerk's office notified the attorney

such a waiver would not be granted, according to court records.

The lawyer

then inquired what the fine would be for failing to appear for jury duty,

according to court records.

Previously,

the rapper had received three different jury waivers postponing his jury

service until another date.

Mauldin's attorney

later claimed the rapper could not be reached to notify him that the waiver

was not granted.