Before he returned to prison rapper T.I sat down with Vibe Magazine, came up with a bunch of excuses for his foolish behaviour, claims he is only addicted to prescription pills, and even goes as far as comparing himself to Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali, Martin Luther King and wait for it…… JESUS CHRIST.
Also in the interview T.I says that people compare him to Tupac while others tell him he’s as good an actor as wait for it….. DENZEL WASHINGTON.
I’ve heard you mention how the good that you’ve done is easily forgotten. Do you feel that you’ve been treated unfairly?
If I place my value in the way humans treat me, then maybe. But they’re human, man―they can’t help themselves. They do that to people they know personally. So how can I expect them to treat me, only knowing me through television? They did that to Jesus. They did that to Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali. They did it to every great person you could possibly think of. When it was all good, they was with them. When things got bad, then they was against them.
But in this case things didn’t “get bad.” It’s something you did.
Let me just say this: [he sits up on the couch] If you look at a guy who came up, no pops in the house, moms on welfare, food stamps; started selling dope when he was 12, 13 years old, came up handling guns, being in shoot-outs; started going to jail when he was 15. In all of this chaos and this mischief and lawlessness, the person who was just in jail for machine guns and silencers turns his life around. And now you want to crucify him ―for what? Three pills. I mean, of course it’s wrong and unacceptable and inexcusable. No problem. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s rather petty. It’s rather petty to hold someone’s feet to the fire for something so small when they have overcame things that were so big. All that could have been going wrong―if I was riding with more guns, or if I had gotten into a shoot-out and killed somebody, then I could see that. But just think about it. I’ve gotten it down to this much.
How did you get a drug habit?
I had a lot of work done to my teeth. Oral surgery, extractions, six, seven, eight root canals. Between January to February. As soon as I got out, I had a lot of stuff done. In the joint, you eat shit that is unhealthy for you. I had fillings that fell out and stuff that had to get dealt with. Of course for the pain they gave me oxycontin and hydrocodone. And, mind you, on October 13, 2007, I had cut off everything―weed, alcohol. Then I get these pills and I start taking them for the pain at first. And then I’m like, Wait―this shit makes me feel good. And it’s legal. After the pain went away, I kept taking it. I had like five, six prescriptions. So I had, like 80 pills. Everybody else might have a drink or smoke a blunt, I took a pain pill. Times when I had 18-, 20-hour days, I’d take a pain pill. And eventually I developed―I guess―the beginning stages of dependence.
This is comedy at it’s finest.
Just do your bid T.I and stop blaming others for your choices/mistakes.
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I am so over it! Am I supposed to feel sorry for T.I.? Because if that is what he is looking for he will be looking for a long time! He is selfish and only thinks of himself….. now his family is going to suffer because of the choices he has made! O____o
“and even goes as far as comparing himself to Malcolm X, Muhammed Ali, Martin Luther King and wait for it…… JESUS CHRIST.”
Clearly still on drugs then.
“They did it to every great person you could possibly think of.”
More drugs talking. Who told him he was great? Great at what? I feel sorry for his children. He is no kind of role model.
Him again!!
‘Let me just say this: [he sits up on the couch] If you look at a guy who came up, no pops in the house, moms on welfare, food stamps; started selling dope when he was 12, 13 years old, came up handling guns, being in shoot-outs; started going to jail when he was 15. In all of this chaos and this mischief and lawlessness, the person who was just in jail for machine guns and silencers turns his life around. And now you want to crucify him ―for what? Three pills. I mean, of course it’s wrong and unacceptable and inexcusable. No problem. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s rather petty. It’s rather petty to hold someone’s feet to the fire for something so small when they have overcame things that were so big. All that could have been going wrong―if I was riding with more guns, or if I had gotten into a shoot-out and killed somebody, then I could see that. But just think about it. I’ve gotten it down to this much.’
Am i the only one who has a problem with that response? Me again!lol
The things about T.I. he wants to force feed us his pity story, but he failed to mention like he did on Larry King that despite all of that he was a A Grade student, who was and is actually pretty intelligent.
Let’s stop blaming ‘daddy’ and using the ‘I was raised by a single mum/grandmother” schpiel. I for one am sick of a lot of people and artists using ‘daddy issues’ as a reason for failures and disappointments in life.
Take accountability for your actions.