After a year and a day of incarceration due to his attempt to purchase illegal guns, TI finally gave a stellar comeback performance.

From his upcoming movie, Takers, the soundtrack “Yeah Ya Know” gave us chills.

There were also great performances by other artists including  Chris Brown’s heartfelt (and teary-eyed) tribute to Michael Jackson, Usher’s white-hot performance and many more.  But when you’re TI, you steal the show.  And speaking of stealing the show, why not steal a whole season with TI’s clothing line: A King Of Oneself (AKOO).  Check our editors’ favorites from the newest spring/summer collection, available at DrJays.com:

AKOO No Evil Tee, $30

AKOO Central Polo, $70

For a guy who’s just out of prison, TI is very busy, and here’s one of his recent interviews with Angie Martinez on Hot 97 Radio.  Yes, we couldn’t resist putting this up because we know you can never have too much of TI.

TI talked about his new album, the movie Takers, summer jam and much more stuff. But one thing caught our eyes: is that a new AKOO cardigan? Can’t wait for it to drop next season!

The King of the South, Clifford Harris a.k.a. TI, sat down with CNN’s Larry King last night on his very first interview since being released from his 1 year and 1 day sentence.  As you know, Tip was imprisoned last year under illegal purchase of weapons charges and was released to a halfway house in Atlanta in December 2009 before finally announced as a free man back in March.  Here’s TI opening up to Larry King, divided in 5 parts.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

In case you haven’t noticed, Larry King didn’t use his usual intimidating ‘journo’ style when talking to Tip.  Guess he knew that there’s no messing with Tip when it comes to what’s important in his life: fiancee Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, his kids and Grand Hustle business.

TI talked about his prison time, early career, and basically re-introduced himself to his fans.  The former straight-A student had troubles in his past, but now is a new beginning.  Tip is currently working on his new upcoming abum: “King Uncaged”.

Do you think Tip represented hip hop well in the interview? Share your thoughts!

AKOO Clothing fans everywhere, we know you’ve been waiting for this: what’s new from AKOO Clothing. Well, looks like although TI is away, his team is busy at work under the lead of AKOO’s head designer, Ralphy Reynolds. Check out what’s coming up from AKOO as Ralphy talks about where the clothing line is headed in the future.  Curious about the first part of the video? Visit www.sojones.com for the first part.

Wow those are some upscale stuff they have. Well you don’t have to wait too long because the new collection of AKOO Clothing has just dropped on DrJays.com and here are our favorites!

AKOO Rugby Union Touchline Long Sleeve, $98.00

AKOO Shadows Jean, $110.00

AKOO Rugby Union Howells Polo, $62.00

Being away in prison doesn’t mean TI is off the list of some of the biggest awards. Take MTV Video Music Awards, which will be held in September 13, 2009. TI’s “Live Your Life” video sits among the nominees of the Best Male Video Award, along with Eminem’s “We Made You”, Jay-Z’s “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”, Ne-Yo’s “Miss Independent” and Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown”.

This is TI’s fourth consecutive Best Male nomination on the MTV Video Music Awards, and he never won a Moonman in any category before, unlike Eminem who snagged the Best Male Video Award for “The Real Slim Shady” in 2000 and “Without Me” in 2002. Kanye West has also won the Best Male Video award for his 2005 song: “Jesus Walks”. Tip, Jay-Z and Ne-Yo have been nominated to get the Moonman, however none of the three have won the category just yet.

Here’s TI’s Live Your Life video, and you tell us… will he win?

That’s what’s coming to you, and these are what you’ll like right now, from TI’s AKOO Clothing Line:

AKOO Wetlands Polo, $72.00

AKOO Instinct Jean, $110.00

Wow, the AKOO Fox made an appearance.  Which reminds us… have you got these new AKOO stuff?  They’re the newest from the Fall ’09 lineup.  Look at the new version of Snobby tees: The VOX.

AKOO Snobby Vox Tee, $37.00

AKOO Red Tail Woven, $79.00

AKOO Legion Short Sleeve Woven, $66.00

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Here’s some music of the day, TI’s “Whatever You Like” got remixed by a girl named Anya Marina.  Anya is an indie musician who has been touring with Jason Mraz for the past year.  She put a new flavor to TI’s hit “Whatever You Like” and you can check it out right here.

Any thoughts on the song?

Some of you might like it, some of you might hate it… it’s ok. If you like Anya’s rendition of TI’s hit song, you’ll be happy to know that you can visit her MySpace page to listen to some more music.

But we all know what we really like, and that’s AKOO clothing line by TI.  Here’s its latest addition to the AKOO Snobby Glory Tee and that’s the red one.

AKOO Snobby Glory Tee in Red, was $27.00,  now $22.99

The good news is, the official video is out and it’s great.  The not-so-good news is that you won’t be able to get your hands on those re-release edition of TI’s album: Paper Trail (Paper Trail – Case Closed). The supposedly-released disc includes “Live Your Life” -Witih Rihanna, “Dead and Gone” -with Justin Timberlake and “Swagga Like Us”.

According to Atlantic reps, the songs will be released digitally instead.

Guess the economy’s start hitting on Atlantic.

Now this is a sentence from DJ Drama about TI that makes fans everywhere wonder: will TI really come home sooner than his supposedly 366 days sentence?

In an interview with Mr. Peter Parker show, DJ Drama revealed that TI will come home ‘sooner than later’.  Here’s the interview:

DJ Drama stated:

“Nah, I haven’t talked to Tip directly. But I was up at the office the other day and he’s good. There were some rumors going on about some sickness or something that happened at the prison but all that’s false, I know he’s good. He’s getting all the letters people are writing him and everything. Tiny has been up there multiple times even though he says he don’t want nobody to come up and see him. I’m curious though, I definitely wanna know his reaction to the Michael Jackson situation, him passing and even in general you know. You think about all of the people locked up feeling the same way. Tip is good. He’ll be home sooner than later. You know what I mean, get right back to work.”

That’s a pretty bold statement as TI is due to be released in 2010.

Anyway, while waiting for TI’s official release from prison, there’s a good news.  TI’s AKOO Clothing Line is on a major discount at DrJays.  Here are some of the newest AKOO items on discount:

AKOO The Nothing Woven Shirt, originally $72.00 down to $57.99

AKOO The Weak Willed Short, originally $79.00 down to $69.99

AKOO Southside Grizzlies Tee, originally $35.00 down to $29.99

AKOO Scavenger Short, originally $79.00 down to $69.99