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When TI promised that his fans won’t miss him much while he’s away, he wasn’t kidding. Here’s a sneak peek of TI’s music video “Remember Me”, featuring Mary J. Blige. This video is for Tip’s upcoming album, “Paper Trail: Case Closed” which will be released in August 2009. The video is directed by Jesse Terrero for Terrero Films
TI might be away in jail right now, but before he hit the clinker, he participated in a photoshoot for The Source Magazine Power 30 Issue that will hit the newsstands June 16, 2009. Here’s your TI fix of the day.
Tell us what more do you want to see from TI? We’ll dig our archives we’ll search high and low to get your needs. Submit your requests in the comments area and we’ll see if we can find what you’re looking for!
By now you probably realize how we always associate AKOO Clothing with its owner, TI (who wears them a lot, of course). Well turns out that other celebs -that includes athletes- are also donning AKOO and looking fly. PressPass.TV followed Ian Johnson of Minnesota Vikings and his wife, Chrissy, whom he proposed to after the Broncos’ 43-42 overtime victory in the Fiesta Bowl in 2006, going around New York City a few months back. They stopped at the AKOO office and Ian actually got some free AKOO stuff.
In TI news: We are dreading every single day towards TI’s incarceration. But guess what, the King of the South is asking for his ‘check-in’ date to be postponed. TI is supposed to report by noon Tuesday to the Federal Correction Institution at Forrest City, Arkansas. According to reports, TI asked a court to let him remain free while he looks for a placement in a minimum-security prison near Atlanta. Tip claims that his criminal history was miscalculated by prison officials, due to the fact that his lawyer called a 2003 ‘scuffle’ with a mall cop. In the pre-sentencing report, it says that Tip has a “serious history of violence”. So when will the prison date be? The delay is said to be two weeks, but hey, anything can happen. We haven’t really heard about the exact date yet, but we do know that Tip is appearing in yet another farewell concert and after party this Sunday, May 24th, 2009 at Velvet Room, Atlanta.
We all know TI is a gifted emcee, songwriter, producer and businessman. But have you seen him in action? We’re gonna show you how TI is putting his magic into the tracks you’ll love. Check out our boy Tip as he does his thing.
As the dude say: the man is his own band. Just take a look at Tip going at it at on the computer. The man is clearly a genius who can’t live without music. And now we wonder how he’ll cope in jail. Will he come up with anything new? Will he go acoustic? Will he even listen to music at all?
And as our form of respect to TI, here’s one of his swagger that you can ‘steal’.
It’s the AKOO Marquee Tee, and it’s available for $49.99!
As we told you earlier, TI headed down to Miami last weekend to attend his farewell party. We got scoop on the invitation, and now we bring you the real deal. Here’s a **super secret** video from the party, courtesy of Gyant.
And here are some pictures from the intimate affair from Sandra Rose.
Looks like everybody obeyed the dress code! Must be a real fun party, although Tip doesn’t seem too thrilled among the bikini-clad girls. Maybe he’s thinkin’ about Tiny, who looked fab, by the way. All the white attires reminded us that TI’s clothing line, AKOO, also carries some real fly white shirts for men. So make sure you stick to the dress code whenever a white party invitation comes up, with this AKOO Rosebud Long Sleeve Woven Shirt.
It’s May already and before you know it, our man Tip will be going away to prison on May 19th. As we all know, TI is charged with illegal weapon purchase and possession back in 2007 and was sentenced to 1,500 community service hours and 366 days in prison. It’s only appropriate to have a farewell party and we got a peek of the invitation of this intimate occasion fot Tip’s closest and dearest friends only.
Whoa. An all-white dresscode! Somehow we’re seriously re-considering the upcoming wedding rumors between the King and Tiny. Speaking of white (and in case you’re thinking what we’re thinking)… here’s our favorite white gear from Tip’s AKOO Clothing line:
So check this out, y’all. Today we’re not talking about no swagger. We’re featuring Tip’s collaboration with Chris Brown that hit the internet last night. Check out the song now… here’s “Don’t Matter” from TI featuring Chris Brown.
The Twitter bird have almost replaced the ‘social butterfly’ term these days, as everyone we all know gets pecked and hung up on their Twitter account. P. Diddy even has a Twitter nickname, P. Twitty. Nick Cannon has a twitter account, Soulja Boy Tellem got one too… almost every big name in hip hop has a Twitter account and we were waiting for The King of South, TI to launch his own Twitter account. Well actually, there IS one Twitter account under TI’s name, but after seeing this video, we can assure you that it’s a fake one.
It’s an official video posted by the ATL Hustlers over the weekend and TI confirmed that Twitter ain’t his swag.
“It’s not my swag. I’m an old fashion type of dude. I’ll write you a letter and hand you a picture, let ‘em fly it to you. Put you a letter in a box, floating to your side of the country. I ain’t on the computer sh**. [Twitter is] not for me. No offense to those who do it. Twit on playa. People got the king, just not on Twitter.”
So does this mean we can send him letters to the clinker, then? We’ll keep our ears up.
TI is not the only one facing a 366 days sentence due to the illegal firearms purchase case. Tip’s bodyguard, Corey Williams, who was also the police informant received a 366 days sentence as well. Williams worked for Tip since 2007, and his previously clean record allowed him to purchase weapons for TI. As we all know, the rapper was barred from weapon purchase due to his previous criminal convictions.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms soon found out about the arrangement after Williams tried to purchase a machine gun without registering the weapon. He violated the federal law and got arrested. Upon his arrest, Williams agreed to cooperate with the police and got wired during meetings with Tip, and this led to Tip’s arrest.
TI was faced with an up to 10 years sentence, but he managed to secure a deal of 1000 hours of community service and 366 days of prison time. He has completed the requirement by speaking directly to troubled teens and coming up with his MTV reality show: Road to Redemption. While Corey has already served his time, Tip will be entering jail next month.
While waiting for his day to go to prison, Tip has been busy adding 5 extra songs to his Paper Trail album that will be re-released sometime this year, also tending his cool clothing line, AKOO. Speaking of AKOO, here’s our pick of the day:
Our man TI will re-release his album “Paper Trail” with additional new tracks before the year’s end. The rapper claimed that he’s still in the process of picking out songs.
“I’m still in the process of picking the songs, but I’m also still recording. I’m able to record any time, through the best of times and through the worst of times, I’m still able to record. It may change the sort of song you do, but you never can tell. You never know until that moment gets there.”
The project is already confirmed by a rep from Atlantic Records, but no date has been set for it. Guess we’ll just have to wait. Meanwhile, check out this pic of Tip we found in our archive.
TI and DJ Drama
TI posed with DJ Drama, wearing a yet to be available AKOO Polo shirt. You can coppy his swag by copping this AKOO The Natural Polo while waiting for the one Tip’s wearing to drop.
