Lil Flip has issued an official response to remarks made by jailed rapper T.I., this past weekend at the Atlanta Summer Jam. T.I., who was permitted to perform as part of his work release, took exception to statements by Flip that he [T.I.] wasn’t the “King of the South” and addressed it in front of the Summer Jam crowd. On Monday, Flip responded to the incident through his publicist.
“I hear T.I. is on stage with like 20 of his men supposedly ready to confront me when it was my turn to take the stage,” Flip says in the statement issued by his publicist. “First of all, I was late and it was supposed to be over. At that point the police and the venue people kept us off the stage, they were gonna shut it down and leave. Dude is on stage mad, claiming he’s the King of the South, and that I said he wasn’t. Everybody knows the real king of the south is Scarface. All I gotta say is that I don’t even KNOW him. If we wanna talk who’s hotter, I’ve been all over the mix tape scene, now I’m all over the mainstream scene, off the strength of my own hustle.”
No stranger to beef, Flip sees this as just another by someone to get fame off his name.
“A lot of people have been coming at me, and I really don’t have the time to address all of them. Like they say; mo money mo problems. That’s all I gotta say, Ima keep doin’ me regardless, I got a new hit record out. I’ve been in so much beef in my life, I’m happy to be here and still be living. I don’t know if dude’s been through half of what I’ve been through. I’ve been living with some real demons in my life, and niggas that know my story know what’s up so I don’t need to do anything extra to draw more attention to myself. I mean, I hear he’s calling out my peoples Luda and DTP too so I guess it’s just part of the game for him, a publicity stunt to move some more units.”
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Flip, who is gearing up for the release of the second single, “Sunshine,” from his gold-certified sophomore release U Gotta Feel Me, speculated that T.I. is “mad” because he dropped the Atlanta rapper from his “Game Over” remix.
“I guess he’s just mad cause I f*ck with everybody else in ATL but him. Look at my album; I got Pastor Troy, Luda, Killer Mike and Baby D. ATL is like my second home. And I guess he’s mad ’cause he did a verse for the ‘Game Over’ remix and I didn’t use it. Bottom line, I’ve put in my time. If he wanna take it there, I mean he got a team, I got a team too, so its whatever. Otherwise, go find another way to sell records ’cause I am selling records”
