T.I. ‘I’m Back’
T.I. released his new single ‘I’m Back’ on Monday (March 8). The rapper is was released to a halfway house in December on his gun possession sentence and will be officially released on March 26th. The rapper’s new album is set to be released August 24th. “I appreciate the support and how hard I was going in during the brief hiatus… I don’t take it lightly,” T.I. told reporters on a conference call. “This marks a special day for us, because we putting out the first song off the album – not an official first single, just something to keep the streets warm. It’s properly entitled ‘I’m Back.’ It’s a lot of things that needed to be spoken on. In my absence, it was a lot of things that went down, a lot of matters that needed to be addressed. This was the greatest platform for me to do it. It was the first song I did when I came home. You get me fresh out the box going in. I’m sure you guys will enjoy it.” Listen to the track below.
T.I. ‘Hell Of A Life’ Video
T.I. is out with the video to his new single ‘Hell Of A Life’, off the Atlanta rapper’s unreleased reissue ‘Paper Trail: Case Closed’. Watch the Erik White directed video via MTV.com below.
T.I. ‘Remember Me’ Video Ft. Mary J. Blige
T.I. is out with the video to his new single ‘Remember Me’, featuring Mary J. Blige, from the Atlanta rapper’s shelved re-release ‘Paper Trail: Case Closed’. Watch the Jessy Terrero directed video below.
Dwight Eubanks Hints That Two Top ATL Rappers Are Gay
Dwight Eubanks, co-star of ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’, recently visited with Wendy Williams on WBLS, where he claimed some Atlanta area artists were gay. Though they weren’t talked about by name, the title of a clip on Wendy’s YouTube channel identified them as T.I. and Ludacris. Listen below.
T.I. Talks ‘Road To Redemption’, Business & Being Blessed
Global Grind caught up with T.I., where the rapper talked about his TV documentary ‘Road To Redemption’, why he got involved with the project, his businesses outside of music and how music of his time they all consume, if he’d go through all the good and the bad again, what he thinks about to keep smiling. “At the end of the day, I’m blessed,” the Grand Hustle boss said. “My good outweighs my bad, no matter how you slice it.” Watch the interview via YouTube below.
T.I. Press Conference Following Prison Sentence
T.I., aka Clifford Harris, says he hopes that others will learn from his mistakes. “Although I am not thrilled about my next year and a day, I am pleased that I am beginning the process of putting this all behind me,” the rapper said at a press conference after a Northern Georgia District judge sentenced the rapper to one year and one day in prison on Friday (March 27) for felony weapons charges stemming from his October 2007 arrest on the eve of the BET Hip-Hop Awards. “Thank you and I apologize to my family, to the young men, young women that I mentor. I hope that I can keep at least one, if not a million or more, from going down a similar path. I just want to say thank you.” Watch the press conference below.
T.I. Has No Thoughts On Nobody’s Business
T.I. is going to jail – where apparently he’s going to meet the entire TMZ fanbase. The gossip show talked with the rapper at Mastro’s Steakhouse in Beverly Hills about Kobe Bryant getting out of jury duty. “Hey man I don’t have no thoughts about nobody’s business,” T.I. lectured. “You should try to take a note or so.” That prompted a discussion about how T.I. is headed to prison and how TMZ is popular show in prison. Watch the segment below.
T.I. Talks About Why He Ended The Shawty Lo Feud
T.I. tells MTV that his move last week to invite Shawty Lo on stage last week shouldn’t have been the big deal the media made it out to be, despite the tension between the two camps that boiled over into a brawl at last year’s Dirty Awards. “That word ‘beef’ is used too loosely, to me. ‘Beef’ is kind of like ’swag.’ People just throwin’ that word around,” T.I. told Sway. “To me, man, if I don’t mean you no harm, we can’t be beefin’. If I see you, and I don’t attack you, it ain’t no beef, and vice versa. Everything else is just entertainment to me.” Watch his comments below.
On TV: Diddy, T.I.
Rap acts on television this week include:
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, who visits ‘The Ellen DeGeneres Show’ (Syndicated) on Tuesday.
T.I., who performs on ‘The Bonnie Hunt Show’ (Syndicated) on Thursday.
T.I. Dines At Mr. Chow
T.I. was spotted entering Mr. Chow in Beverly Hills on Monday night (February 23), posing with a couple fans, accepting something that appeared to be a chocolate Valentine’s heart from the woman he took a picture with. Watch Hollywood.tv footage below.
