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T.I. has acknowledged that he once turned on his deceased relative to get out of jail.

The Atlanta rapper revealed how, in the early 2000s, before his music career took off, he put a pistol case on his late relative, Toot, in a recently-resurfaced tape from an edition of his expediTIously podcast from August 2020.

T.I. has acknowledged that he once turned on his deceased relative to get out of jail.

The Atlanta rapper revealed how, in the early 2000s, before his music career took off, he put a pistol case on his late relative, Toot, in a recently-resurfaced tape from an edition of his expediTIously podcast from August 2020.

“We at Lennox Mall parking lot, we unload the truck [of stolen clothes], I’m talking to the man while I’m making the play,” he remembered. “This n-gga looking at everything like, ‘Man, y’all got, y’all got?!’ ‘Muthafucka, we done said what you want! Get this shit and go!’

“And right then, mall security [pull up] … We get in the car and we pull off, and then of course, they followed behind us and called the real police. So before we actually get on the expressway, the real police pull us over. I have a gun.”

During the trial, Toot was assassinated. Toot had introduced T.I. to DJ Toomp, the man responsible for such songs as “What You Know,” “24’s,” and “U Don’t Know Me.” Tip escaped jail time by claiming the gun belonged to his cousin at the advice of his attorney and with Toot’s posthumous approval.

“We caught those gun cases, Toot died. My lawyer said, ‘Well, you know, I could make everything go away if it was Toot’s, it was Tremel’s,’” he said. “After he had passed, I had a talk with him. Toot said, ‘I’ll take all the charges you got! If you can walk away free and put it on me, goddamn right! ‘Cause I’ll be damned if they gon’ come and muthafucking extradite me from here!’”

Asked if that’s where the claims that T.I. is a “snitch” come from by gun rights activist Nicki Davis Jr., who was a guest on the podcast, he responded: “Hell nah. Don’t nobody know about that, I just volunteered this information. That’s the only time I done ever said or gave information, because that’s my big cousin. He was dead and he told me that it was OK.”

The line “My cousin used to tell me, ‘Take this shit a day at a time’ / Told me Friday, died Sunday, Wednesday in the ground” comes from T.I.’s 2003 hit song “Rubber Band Man,” which included a reference to Toot. The Hustle Gang leader thought back on the counsel his late cousin gave him during an interview with MTV at the song’s video shoot.

“We was just talking. It was around Christmastime of 2002,” he said. “We was kicking it, he was telling me how I need to slow down. I was real hot-headed. I was just frustrated. I was really the mad rapper. I felt like, ‘I’m better than a lot of n-ggas and I ain’t where I need to be.’

“He was like, ‘Dig this, though — look what you do got. You got a following can’t nobody else match. Can’t nobody who’s at the level you at in your career, selling the amount of records you selling, go shut a mall down. It’s a reason for that. You got strength. Just be thankful for what you do have.’”

T.I. was spared jail time in that specific instance because to Toot, but as his legal issues persisted, he subsequently had to serve time in jail. The King rapper most notoriously served seven months in federal jail in 2009 as a result of a firearms charge two years earlier for which he entered a plea agreement.

When T.I. was caught on drug charges less than a year later, it violated the terms of his probation and landed him back in jail. He was instructed to complete an 11-month term in the Arkansas jail from which he had previously been freed.

T.I. allegedly struck Andrew “Drew” Taggart of The Chainsmokers in the face after kissing him on the cheek.

Taggart and partner Chainsmoker Alexander “Alex” Pall capture a recent meeting with the Atlanta native at a nightclub in a video posted to the EDM duo’s TikTok page on Tuesday (August 16).

The video, titled “When Meeting T.I. Goes Wrong,” opens with Taggart and Tip posing for a picture before cutting to the pair talking about the event in the backseat of a car.

Before acknowledging that the punch was appropriate, the Grammy winner adds that he kissed the Trap Muzik musician because he was “feeling the vibes way too hard.”

“T.I. just literally punched me in the face,” he says as Pall laughs in the background. “We’re in a vibe and I, like, gave him a kiss on the cheek — it was totally my fault.

“And he was like, ‘Don’t do that.’ And I was like, ‘OK.’ He pushed me off and I was like, ‘Alright, my bad’ … And he was like, ‘Alright cool, we’re good.’ It was the weirdest interaction ever.”

He continues: “First of all, T.I. is fully in the right here. I was feeling the vibes way too hard and I kissed T.I. on the cheek. And he punched me in the face for it! It’s fully fine.”

T.I. still hasn’t commented on the video.

The head of the Hustle Gang, meanwhile, recently received an Outstanding Georgia Citizen Award for his charitable and volunteer work in Atlanta, where he was born and raised.

“In the grand scheme of things, we are only here on Earth in this life for a short period of time, and once we leave, people won’t remember the clothes we wore or the things we have,” he said at a ceremony at the Georgia State Capitol.

“We will only be remembered by what we meant to our family, our children and what we were able to do for others.”

In honor of his 4,000 hours of devotion to the country, T.I. also received the Volunteer’s Achievement Lifetime Award on President Joe Biden’s behalf.