If C-Murder wants to continue making CDs and music videos from jail, he better find more creative methods of distribution.

According to local reports, officials at Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna, Louisiana, have officially banned the hip-hopster's attorney from carrying pens into jailhouse meetings after C-Murder smuggled out rhymes featured on a new album, The Truest S--t I Ever Said, which hit stores last Tuesday.

Incensed that the 34-year-old gangsta rapper was commercially exploiting his notoriety as a convicted murderer, local jail Sheriff Harry Lee said earlier this month he would only allow lawyer Ron Rakosky to use a pencil and pad during client conferences, not pens, believing C-Murder was using the hollowed cylinders to pass along song lyrics.

Rakosky protested, arguing that by preventing him from bringing legal documents pertaining to his case, Lee was "illegally intruding on the right of counsel."

On Mar. 16, a deal was struck in which Rakosky was allowed to bring court papers with him while meeting with C-Murder, though he could only use pencils to write.

While the pen may be mightier than the sword, it's apparently no match for a bad rap.

C-Murder, whose real name is Corey Miller, is currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole after being convicted in October 2003 of killing a 16-year-old boy outside a suburban New Orleans nightclub.

In April 2004, a state district judge granted a new trial on the grounds that prosecutors withheld key information about witnesses called to implicate the rapper. However, that ruling was overturned in March by a state appeals court that declared "there was an abundance of other evidence which fully established Miller's guilt."

The setback, however, hasn't got C-Murder down.

While he appeals the latest decision against him, Miller's busy maintaining his once promising rap career from behind bars.

In February, jail officials were outraged to discover C-Murder had managed to not only record 27 tracks of new material from the clink but also had the cojones to shoot parts of a music video for the album's first single, "Yall Heard of Me" (featuring longtime pal BG) in his orange prison garb, right under the nose of Sheriff Lee.

There's a dispute as to exactly how Miller managed to sneak out the footage. His lawyer, Ron Rakosky, claimed the shots of C-Murder in lockup were taken with Lee's prior approval as part of two jailhouse interviews the rapper was allowed to give Court TV and a local cable-access show.

Not so, according to Lee, who said he never granted approval for the shoots.

Neither Rakosky nor Lee were available for comment.

C-Murder hails from a family of rap royalty that also includes brothers Master P and Silkk the Shocker, and nephew Lil' Romeo. After recording with his brothers in a mid-'90s outfit called Tru, Corey Miller went on to record four solo albums for Master P's No Limits Records, starting with 1998's Life or Death and ending with 2000's Trapped in Crime.

Miller's post-conviction release, The Truest S--t I Ever Said, features such guest performers as Soulja Slim, Akon, Capone and Popeye, among others.

According to the CD's liner notes, C-Murder is also hard at work on two novels, Death Around the Corner and Crazy Mikey.