The Jamaican star testified at his drug trial Wednesday that the informant called him constantly after they met on a trans-Atlantic flight in July 2009 and insisted that they meet to set up a cocaine buy.
Banton says he's ashamed for talking as much as he did about drugs with the informant. But he claims he never intended to deal in cocaine.
Banton is on trial on several cocaine charges for the second time in Tampa federal court. The jury deadlocked in his first trial. If convicted, Banton faces up to life in prison.
Two other Jamaican musicians, Stephen Marley and Gramps Morgan, testified on Banton's behalf Wednesday.
