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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.
Like probably most of you, after thinking that it might just be a little April Fool’s trick, we were a little bit very appalled when “TI’s Road To Redemption: The Reckoning” which contained the rapper’s exclusive interview with MTV News’ Sway Calloway, after his sentencing last week. We stopped by MTV News’ website, found that angry fans have slashed MTV with complaints and finally read a super-lengthy explanation about why the show did not air. In short, they’re saying that the editing machine in Atlanta had broken down just hours before the show was supposed to air. But you could just watch MTV’s explanation (and apology) right here.
Michael Hirschorn, one of the executive producers of “Road to Redemption” claimed that the crew worked restlessly to have the show available for viewers until 2.30 a.m. Hirschorn wasn’t able to contact Tip until after 10 p.m. Hirschorn said:
“I wasn’t able to speak to Tip until after 10 p.m. By the time I spoke to him, he was still clearly disappointed but philosophical about the whole thing.”
Well we were disappointed as well, although some of us might not be as philosophical as Tip was.
MTV rescheduled the show and note this down, boys and girls:
Catch “TI’s Road of Redemption: The Reckoning” on Tuesday, April 7th, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.
In the mean time, chill out with some TI’s new AKOO Clothing as we got the AKOO Daily Swagger laid out for you. Here’s the AKOO Casestacker Jacket in Black.
Y’all think TI looks so fly in every getup because he prepares his swaggers on his own? You’re dead wrong.
TI always look fabulous thanks to his stylist and wardrobe assistants who put his look together. Check out the crazy hectic life behind the scenes of TI’s show: Road to Redemption.
We’re feelin’ the end result although quite surprised at Tip’s anti-diva behavior. It’s admirable for somebody at his standing to have that much patience dealing with slow crews. Guess this is nothing compared to the whole ordeal he’s been through. Speaking of which, MTV has released the deleted scenes from TI’s “Road to Redemption” reality show and we have the video.
Catch Road of Redemption every Tuesday night, 9:30 pm. May we remind you, it’s 29 days to TI’s incarceration. We’ll keep a close eye on TI. He’s indeed A King Of Oneself and we believe this tee says it all.
T.I.’s Road to Redemption Premieres Tuesday February 10, 9pm Local on MTV
Publicity stunt or genuine concern?
Tonight on MTV is the premiere of T.I.’s new reality-documentary “Road to Redemption”. The show follows him in 2008 fulfilling his court-ordered community service in which he attempts to impact the lives of seven troubled youths. During this period, he is also anxiously awaiting sentencing for his conviction of illegal weapons possession.
The AKOO designer is given the opportunity to right his wrongs by actively participating in the kids lives, motivating them, getting involved and attempting to get back on track.
It is hard not to be skeptical of yet another reality show. The basic principle is inspiring but the need for televised, on camera recognition, is over-rated and overdone. Tonight we will see if this is a purposeful, meaningful glimpse into TI’s life and his need to make a difference or if it will be yet another scripted “reality” show of celeb self-promotion taking up empty television time.
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