Multi-Platinum Rapper and Actor T.I. Speaks to Toure about His Trouble With the Law in a BET News National Exclusive: 'T.I. Speaks'
In his first base televised interview since a plea steal on artillery charges, multi-platinum recording creative person and actor T.I., a.k.a. Clifford James Thomas Harris, Jr., speaks entirely to Play News in the 30 minutes special T.I. SPEAKS, premiering Midweek, May 7 at 7:30 PM*. He directly answers the street fighter questions from host Toure and at-risk young person about his liveliness and future after organism sentenced to a year in prison house. In a compelling instant, he explains wherefore somebody world Health Organization seems to bear everything -- money, power and fame -- would risk it whole.
On October 13, 2007, T.I. was set up to perform at BET's arcsecond annual Hip Hop AWARDS in Atlanta, only he ne'er made it to the stage. Just hours in front the show, the Grammy Honour winner and budding doer was taken into custody by federal soldier government wHO alleged that he gave his bodyguard johnny Cash to buy firearms. Never bashful in his lyrics about his days of drug dealing and guns, this turn back was scarcely another course in the 27-year old Atlanta native's already long rap flat solid.
While non making excuses for his poor decisions, the rapper discusses his best friend's slay in 2006 and explains how being a celebrity has its drawbacks and "ignites a certain paranoia." He says, "Every i knew me and I knew no one ... you can't assure if a person is a fan or not until the (railway car) window winds down." With a fresh baby on the way, a forthcoming matrimony, a fresh record album and the one-year clink judgment of conviction awaiting him, T.I. inside information how this entire ordeal has changed his life. Claiming a fresh understanding for life and its meaning, T.I. delivers a strong message around deciding to a chemical group of at-risk students and reveals his thoughts about sledding back to slammer and his career's futurity. He says, "I moldiness be a gentleman and stand up and accept duty. I exercised exceedingly poor judicial decision, and for that, I mustiness be willing to bear whatever price that comes in front me."
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