T.I. has admitted to once snitching on his dead cousin to avoid jail time.
In a resurfaced clip from an August 2020 episode of his expediTIously podcast, the Atlanta rapper recalled pinning a gun case on his late relative, Toot, in the early 2000s, before his music career took off.
As T.I. explained, he and Toot were running a hustle in their native Atlanta involving stolen upscale clothes when they were pulled over by cops, who discovered a gun in Tip’s possession.
“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.”
Toot — who introduced T.I. to DJ Toomp, the producer behind hits like “What You Know,” “24’s” and “U Don’t Know Me” — was murdered during the court case. At the urging of his lawyer — and with Toot’s posthumous blessing — Tip avoided incarceration by claiming the gun belonged to his cousin.
“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!'”
When gun rights activist Nicki Daniels Jr., who appeared as a guest on the podcast, asked if that’s where the allegations of T.I. being a “snitch” stem from, he replied: “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.”
T.I. rapped about Toot on his 2003 hit “Rubber Band Man” (“My cousin used to tell me, ‘Take this shit a day at a time’ / Told me Friday, died Sunday, Wednesday in the ground”). In an interview with MTV at the song’s video shoot, the Hustle Gang honcho reflected on the advice he received from his late cousin.
“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.'”
While Toot helped him avoid jail time in that particular case, T.I. would later spend time behind bars as legal troubles continued to plague him. Most notably, the King rapper spent seven months in federal prison in 2009 stemming from a weapons arrest two years prior, to which he struck a plea deal.
Less than a year later, T.I. wound up back behind bars after being arrested on drug charges, which violated the terms of his probation. He was ordered back to the Arkansas prison from which he was originally released to serve an 11-month sentence.
Assuming the statute of limitations has passed that he’s openly talking about lying to pin the blame on a dead person.
“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!’” You see how he makes it sound so funny and like a game? Should’ve manned up but for anyone who saw him on Punk’d ages ago knows he’s scared of the police and not at all the gangster he claims to be.
Everybody be scared when the police come…..that’s a fact….we ain’t Scarface🤣
The ones who aren’t scared die quicker. You’re smart
Most of yall would tell on yo mama if them boys ran down on you with a gun or drugs. Cut out all this postering.
Everybody who’s focusing on the being scared of the police part. Difference is, T.I. acts like he’s not scared unlike most of us. That’s the point you b-a-n.
Okay
He whole snitch ass ass yo!!! TI a real life snitch!!!!
Then he snitched on YSL!!!!!
he a whole snitch ass ass yo!!! TI a real life snitch!!!!
Why is he even making this shit public. Keep that shit to yourself, dummy. He gets all the heat he deserves for this dumb shit.
Yea
Not a good move from TI to recognize about snitching since the Snitch crown is already heavily embedded on him, him recognizing this…not good
Sssoooo what’s the difference in T.I. snitching on his dead cousin to not go to jail & Birdman’s brother snitching on dead criminals to get out of jail ??? 🤔
I dont believe birdman brother.
So he’s basically just confirming for us what we already knew
That’s not kalled snitching bekause the person that the crime is being placed apon isn’t living anymore so therefore no actions kan be placed apon him which means he kan’t be charged or took to kourt by the law inforcement so he/she will not face incarceration of any kind it’s snitching when the person kan be brought to kourt and face jail/prison time due to the critical and vital information you have gave to them regarding the person in mention
That’s not kalled snitching bekause the person that the crime is being placed apon isn’t living anymore so therefore no actions kan be placed apon him which means he kan’t be charged or took to kourt by the law inforcement so he/she will not face incarceration of any kind it’s snitching when the person kan be brought to kourt and face jail/prison time due to the critical and vital information you have gave to them regarding the person in mention
That’s not kalled snitching bekause the person that the crime is being placed apon isn’t living anymore so therefore no actions kan be placed apon him which means he kan’t be charged or took to kourt by the law inforcement so he/she will not face incarceration of any kind it’s snitching when the person kan be brought to kourt and face jail/prison time due to the critical and vital information you have gave to them regarding the person in mention
That’s not kalled snitching bekause the person that the crime is being placed apon isn’t living anymore so therefore no actions kan be placed apon him which means he kan’t be charged or took to kourt by the law inforcement so he/she will not face incarceration of any kind it’s snitching when the person kan be brought to kourt and face jail/prison time due to the critical and vital information you have gave to them regarding the person in mention
No, it’s definitely still snitching, are you stupid? When crimes are pinned on a deceased person, any investigator with a brain will then seek to dig deeper, see who they were associated with in life, ans follow whatever leads or trails come up from seeing those who associated with them. So snitching on a dead person 100% is still snitching. Dead dude can’t go to jail, but I bet his friends can.
Alfamega
if he snitched on a dead person, he’ll snitch on a living one. he just confirmed it.
Go check on youe daughter hymen TI.
Most of yall would tell on yo mama if them boys ran down on you with a gun or drugs. Cut out all this postering.
What yall niggaz talkin bout? I gave my cousin permission, so shut da fuck up!
You know damn well you lyin “Toot” 😂🤣
Being a snitch is an act of cowardice , quit telling on yourself and it seems the cousin who’s dead deserved better , I hope he has taken care of that family cuz its the right thing to do and in the future ride your beef and dont take the dealdo
So When Biggie Mans took the gun charge because Big future looked bright. Is that snitching? I thought a snitch is a person that tells on someone to get off or lower their jail time. If his cousin said put it on me I’m lost
Here’s the thing, 99% of yall gonna snitch. You’re keyboard warriors right now if you’re claiming you wouldn’t. On the other hand you can’t be a gangsta rapper and a snitch at the same damn time. Just ask 69 how that works.
Tip DID NOT RAT, NOW HE DID LIE ON HIS CUZ BUT HE AIN’T RAT, HE FLAT OUT ADMITS ITS HIZ STRAP, HE JUST USED HIZ DEAD CUZ 2 ESCAPE A GUN CHARGE. IF THE GUN WIZ REALLY HIS CUZ’Z THEN YEAH U CAN SAY HE RATTED BUT HE REALLY JUST LIED ON HIZ CUZ.