T.I – who is currently behind bars, covers the November issue of Complex magazine. Inside he talked about everything from “American Gangster” to his fight with Ludacris’s manager Chaka Zulu.
On Luda’s Manager he smacked:
C: Have you seen [Ludacris’s manager] Chaka Zulu since you had an altercation with him back in June?
T.I: I’ve seen him, but I didn’t speak to him. That situation was whatever. If you come out your face and say something, then you can expect me to go off. You should watch your mouth. I think my manager spoke to him. I got a great life and wonderful children, and I do intend to be here to guide them for the rest of their lives, and that’s what’s most important to me. Maybe when I was 18 or 19 runnin’ the streets and shootin’ pistols, but I’m not gonna blow that for one of these cats who don’t happen to live by the same principles as me.
On how the streets have changed:
C: Is there a character in American Gangster you would parallel to your days in the trap?
T.I: I can’t even compare myself back in that day simply because it was a whole other day and age. When I was doin’ it, it was chaos. Real talk, it was easier then, too. Not taking nothing away from them ’cause they started it, but the police wasn’t hip to everything. By the time I started hustling, the police had cameras, the Internet, and forensics. [Back then] you could kill a nigga at six o’clock in the morning on his doorstep and long as nobody seen you, you good. Now you got cameras on street lights. I feel like if I was a hustler back then, I’d have a way better shot at it. People actually respected the game. Whereas when I was a hustler, a nigga would do anything for a dollar. Period.
Read more over at Complex’s blog or cop it on stands now.
I dont think he is gonna be home for the holidays. SMH
FIRST? AWWWWL KEEP YA HEAD UP TI
Obviously he didn’t stay true to the “not gonna blow his chance” comment. Damn shame!!!!
~Ms.Sweets~
Nice cover – I seriously hope this young brother is not guilty as he has been charged,and has turned his life around. You have to be careful though – because we all reap what we sow.
hmmm…whateva…next!!!!!!!
He sounds intellectual in the interview…but the truth remains that obviously he wasn’t thinking about his great life and being around for his children when he pulled that DUMBASS move!!!!
Lord when will they learn to stop being boys and be MEN!!!!
Aaah TI you’ll be out soon even if it is house arrest. Keep ur head up and stay strong.
TI is lookin mad SEXY in these pics. I just hope he’s FINALLY RELEASED on Friday.
I wish him the best. I have always liked him and still do.
I LOVEEEEEEEE ME SOME T.I he’s def my skinny boo, but I gotta go along with #1. He def wont be home for the holidays and even if they do house arrest it has to be hurting him that he might get put away for a VERY VERY long time.
I’m sad about it. This is some messed up ish, but damn T.I you got caught up so I guess you gotta pay for it (even though it was all a set up damn snitches)
Ima cop that magazine though and regardless of his stupid stupid mistakes he’s still human and def a STAND UP DUDE regardless of what SOME ppl think.
he talikn bout the game is fake now but what about those fake fights he set up while he was on tour. remember there would just happen to be someone throwing somthin at him at the same time at every venue. I think the Chaka Zulu fight was staged too.
TIP IS 2 DOGG GONE SEXY! I UNDASTAND DAT LIL MAN, HUHBRUH!
He so cute but damn dummy move. I can’t remember who said it best about it is worth more in the long run to pay alot for arm security than to be locked up.
Am I the only one who noticed that in the pic with him putting the turkey in the damn oven he got a gun on his waist….thats the damn problem right there…damnit TI leave the guns alone…LOL
If you look CLOSELY at Picture # 2 (Ti for Comple # 2), you will see Ti Placing a Turkey in a Gas Oven, while smoking a Cigarette
and….
He has a Glock in his wasteband……
“A Mind is a Terrible Thing To Waste”
I’d find him sexier if he bulks up a bit. Too skinny for me. He needs to swtich to the Mo’Nique diet-plan for a couple of weeks and hit the gym
notice how all the male commenters will have something negative to say about T.I….Haters. Ne ways hope that T.I. will grow-up and learn that the thug mentality is for LOSERS!
TI your bunhole is in danger!!!! Keep that head up, hopefully they will give you house arrest. Ive have never seen a nicca roasting a turkey w/heat on the side, give it a rest, we know you “gangsta” yadayadayada! Im wondering what the judge ill decide when he see this in this mag??!! You wanna live the gangsta life they will most certianly accomadate you!
Cover looks gay.
mrs sands:
Im wondering what the judge ill decide when he see this in this mag??!! You wanna live the gangsta life they will most certianly accomadate you!
Bill Said:
The Judge will think to himself “Why should I give him house arrest, when he can’t even cook a meal at home without having a pistol in his wasteband”…….
…By hey, he’s keeping it Gangster !
aww, he looks so young on that cover
Stay strong T.I. you have my support boi…
I love that Big Things Choppin apron lmao..
TIP is cool but he gets the most love and respect almost like he can do no damn wrong….he’s gettin all these well wishes if it was that nicca weezy baby then we’d really see some backlash on these blogs
GTFOH
yeah real “stand up dude” with all them babies and he ain’t married to nobody’s mama. next!
this cover is an instant collector’s item though.
I really like T.I. and I don’t like too many rappers. Terrible what he is going through, but he brought it on himself…by the way, is it just my computers, but this site shuts down like 3-4 times every time I get on with Internet Explorer. Then that damn add pops up while I’m reading and makes me have to scrool back down. Just me venting about my fustrations with the site as of late. Other than that I love it. Just a little aggravated.
If I wuz Tip I would stay as far away from weapons as I can.
Damn T.I. .. weren’t you just on hiphop verse america?? set an example man.. we went over this. so sad.. but still got luv for u. just waiting for you to be released so u can tell the truth.. or ur side.
Complex should not have had him pose with a knife in his hand. He already looks coo-coo enough.
Innocent until proven guilty…
House arrest and monitoring = no threat to society…
Business execs backing his release…
Bond MUST be granted… if not its a gross usage of Justice
I love the 2nd picture. It kind of reminds me of some of my uncles. They be in the kitchen, smoking, drinking and talking sh*t while cooking the damn butterball turkey. Yep, those some good memories.
look at dude in the trunk *smh*
http://i42.photobucket.co...ko/ticomplexmagazine4.jpg
He looks cute on this cover. Too bad to his current situation. SMH
All I can say is..if he did that bullshyt I can’t feel sorry for him…
Those kids will def miss their daddy…all 4 of of em
LMAO @ #33. Where did you find that pic???
Um T.I. is in jail right now right?
When did they do this interview? lol
guess he wasn’t kidding with that Tip vs. T.I. shit…..maybe he can use that as his defense…Tip did it! What idiots allowed a convicted felon to be photographed with a gun at his waist? SMH…..
FREE T.I., but shame on him for that oven pic. I’m still a fan TIP, A-Town all day!!
@26 once you get on da site let evthing load b4 u scroll down. now just call me crazy but i really feel like this was a set up na he did not have 2 fall 4 it no but i feel the body guard had a motive to work for him @ the start meaning he was put there to get T.I.P from the start hey remem belly… the goverment is so DURTY i also feel like they do not want blacks to be here take it for a joke if you want to EVERYBODY PLEASE SUPPORT THE BLACKOUT ON NOVEMBER 2,2007 DON’T SPEND ANY MONEY ONLY IN OUR COMMMUNTIY WITH OUR PEOPLE THIS IS FOR THE INJUSTICE THAT WE THE BLACK RACE ARE EXPERIENCING IT WILL BE ON CNN SOON WARREN VALENTINE IS GONNA TALK ABOUT IT AND VOTE OBAMA 08 AND IM GONE!
#40: It was indeed a set up, but T.I. was still wrong and I won’t deny that. He had some much going for himself, so he should’ve just made the $$$$ and took his own advice from one his songs “Be Easy”. I pray he has favor his this case, but at the end of the day he did this to himself.
The Blackout thing is cool, but alot of ppl will spend money on American Gangster…or is that ok?
I love me some T.I.
It’s a shame he was involved in something soooo ridiculous.
He had everything a person could hope for in life & he just had to go and F%$&* it up.
I don’t even know what to hope for.
He broke the law, he deserves to pay for what he did.
At the same time I can’t stop asking whyyyyyy?!
Another one bites the dust.
You now what..you guys are some of the most triffling, cynical, unloving, judgemental people I have ever seen in all my life!(I really don’t care if the words are spelled correctly or not) Have you all ever even heard of someone being set up!! I mean really can you give a man a break. You people make me sick sitting around passing judgement! Who the heck died and made you small minded people the regulator. AAARRRGHHH!
Set up or not you have to be smarter then that, that’s what the informants are out there for, to set dudes up. Its not something to take lightly, but because TI followed through with the deal he’s in some serious trouble right now, not to mention his past record. I don’t think brothers are hating on TI but he needs to get his life in order if he gets out, if not then you already know what it is. Most of the dudes in here are calling it how they see it, you have to be able to see things for what they are, a black man in this business with money who promotes negativity in the majority of his songs, the brother didn’t put too much positive music out there, I swear on his last album I was tired of hearing the same gun talk track after track, not the whole album but the majority of it. Brothers need to step it up with there lyrics, and stop promoting nonsense for the youth.
I hope his ass makes it home for turkey damn….little ass.
T.I probably in jail mean muggin like hell, keepin them negros at bay with his pretty self….if i were him, i’d she shakin like a leaf.
Why does he have a pistol on his waist?
Why was he saying he gonna be there for his kids?
Why is he saying he gonna be home for the holidays?
Why did he talk all that positive shit on Hip Hop vs. America?
Why is he so damn skinny?
Why he ask for change back from the purchase of the guns?
Why did he trust someone he barely knew to do this purchase (snitch)?
Why purchase guns when your bodyguard has them and u already have 3 strikes?
Damn T.I. I hope you make it out and get your life straight cause you are hurting your family along with hurting yourself . I still love ya though, no doubt about that.
oops, two strikes
@40 T.I and denziel has been paid for the movie no DON’T GO the 3rd won’t hurt we got to do da dawn thing our lives R @ risk
whoever likes ti is a homo and that magazine cover explains it all damn faggots
You can only be set up if you’re doing something wrong in the first place.
That is all.
Is it me or is no one mentioning him smacking Chaka Zulu?
he smacked him???
Florida Evans said it best….damn, damn, damn!
I hope he get a second chance. I think he just made a stupid mistake.Anyway he look good on the cover.
T.I. is hot but he knew better than to put his self in that situation. It’s like Mo’Nique said we are just one bad decision away
can someone tell me exactly what he did.
I know he in jail and i saw all the guns, but why is it this serious.
What did he say on tape, I know he was recorded.
Someone help me out here.
TI should have been holding a machine gun instead of a knife……..
@51 don’t be ridiculous..that is the definition of set up.” to cause somebody to be caught and blamed for something “
It’s funny becuase I’m looking at these threads with Brandy and this one with T.I. Some might wonder what they have in common, I would say its legal troubles but the difference is people are have been bending over backwards to give T.I. the benefit of the doubt but still scince the accident happened I hear people throing around the term “murderer” with brandy norwood like people got a grudge which fucks my head up how peopel could just throw that word around like that.
Another difference is the fact that this nigga KNEW he was wrong and was in and out of jail through out most of his adult life for shit like that yet let niggaz tell it the body gaurd duct taped the uzi’s with the silencers *smh* to his hand and the cops kicked down the door at that moment.
Yet Brandy who wasn’t drinking wasn’t under the influence of anything doesnt have a history of doing any thing like that or anything of the sort was involved in an auto accident that resulted in the death of a woman and people tearing her black ass up. I never understand why we give the ones who know they wrong (oj im looking in your direction) the benifit fo the doubt and crucifie others I never understood that about black people.