T.I. is once again being accused of snitching after a Crime Stoppers campaign video he participated in resurfaced online. 50 Cent, who Tip challenged to a Verzuz battle, made the situation worse by sharing the clip on his popular Instagram account.
But T.I. has vehemently denied the allegations, just as repeatedly has in the past. He responded to 50’s post by taking it as accepting his battle challenge and reemphasized he’s no snitch.
“As far as this clip goes…it’s cute… old,outdated,& in poor taste (much like your catalog @50cent)… however I prefer FACTS‼️” he wrote. “AND THE FACT REMAINS….I HAVE NEVER GIVEN ANY INFORMATION TO ANY FORM OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AT ANYTIME IN LIFE TO GET ANYBODY ANY TIME FOR ANY CRIME‼️ Supreme told me to ask @50cent if he can say the same???”
Despite the persistence of the snitching accusations, no paperwork has ever surfaced to prove T.I. actually did. In fact, Tip’s been outspoken against snitches and even got rid of an artist from his Grand Hustle label after learning the rapper was a DEA informant.
Alfamega signed with T.I. in the mid-2000s and — on the surface — appeared to bring street cred with him. Tip gave the Atlanta-bred rapper a high profile showcase on the 2007 single “Hurt” with Busta Rhymes, but everything came crashing down at the end of the decade.
In 2009, The Smoking Gun exposed Alfa for working with law enforcement after being sentenced to 110 months behind bars for a federal gun charges in September 1995.
T.I. reacted swiftly, dropping Alfamega from Grand Hustle days later. He explained his decision in an interview on Atlanta radio station Hot 107.9.
“Even though all our artists and employees are asked by us to be honest and open about their past history, at no time did Alfa disclose to me or Grand Hustle what has now appeared in the media,” he said. “He essentially deceived us by failing to fully disclose the truth about his past, and there is no place in our organization for dishonest and misleading behavior.”
Tip noted, “As I have always said, you must take responsibility for your own actions. We at Grand Hustle can not support or condone the blaming of others for our own mistakes. I hope and pray to God, bless his savings plans, but I don’t foresee me or my company playing a role in his personal or professional business.”
A year later, T.I. briefly addressed Alfamega’s departure in a chat with DJ Envy. But rivals such as the late Shawty Lo continued to hold the embarrassing moment over his head in spite of Tip essentially ending Alfa’s career.
Aflamega proved to be a stain on T.I.’s track record, but he’s been plagued with his own allegations of snitching stemming from his 2007 arrest for attempting to buy machine guns and ammo from undercover agents. He agreed to a plea deal in 2008, getting a lighter sentence despite facing up to 10 years in prison. He was ultimately sentenced to 366 days prison behind bars in 2009 but got out early on good behavior.
T.I. Gets Heated On Instagram Over Snitch Allegations Following Resurfaced 'Crime Stoppers' Promo
The aforementioned 50 notably referenced T.I.’s sentencing on the 2008 G-Unit song “You So Tough.” He rapped, “What’s today’s mathematics? Shit ain’t adding up/Get knocked with 10 machine guns, only get 12 months/Oooh weee, don’t talk to me, you talk to him, you talking to them/I got the best lawyers money can buy/They said they would’ve got me 10, or maybe nine/I said, ‘How do you explain how homie breeze?’/They said keep ya mouth shut or you eat the cheese.”
This seemingly generous plea deal resulted in the snitching allegations against Tip, which have been promoted by the likes of Spider Loc and Wack 100. But T.I. has insisted he never snitched, pointing to inmates approving of him after checking his paperwork in prison.
“I’ve always been in [general population],” he said on Hot 97 in 2012. “All the time. I turned in my paperwork. When you turn in your paperwork, it’s called a paperwork party. They look at it on the yard. Everybody get to observe it and whatnot. They know exactly what to look for.”
He added, “Everybody wants to believe that because if they would have got caught in them circumstances, that’s what would’ve happened to them. They would’ve done it. I stood silent. I could say with a clear conscience and a pure heart, I’ve never ever had to tell anything on anybody.”
Even with the lack of proof and T.I.’s consistent denials, he hasn’t been able to completely shake the snitching accusations. Just a few days ago, he became enraged when a social media commenter brought them up again during an Instagram livestream.
“Fuck you and your life, nigga,” he told the person. “You see a snitch nigga, slap him when you see him. Knock his nose off. So nigga next time I’m out instead of asking for a picture like a little hoe ass nigga, nigga come on knock my muthafucking nose out if you think I’m a snitch nigga. Nigga come on; nigga quit smiling in my face tryna get in my fucking section.”
He continued, “Don’t play with my muthafucking name, nigga. I’m the muthafucking King, nigga, and never gave no muthafucking information to get anybody in no muthafucking trouble nan time with no police nigga. If I am working with police, it’ll be to get him to shoot you nigga. Fuck is you talking about?”
50 providing a signal boost to the old Crime Stoppers video won’t make things any easier, putting T.I. back on the defensive.
However, a lot of Hip Hop fans have shown they don’t care about snitching. Allegations against Gunna quickly fell by the wayside and the controversial Tekashi 6ix9ine has experienced major success despite testifying against Nine Trey Gangsta Blood members in court.
But T.I. is cut from a different cloth. One only needs to refer back to his Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head cut “Sorry” as an example of his outlook: “Switch the flow up ’cause these niggas be snitching so much/I promise all they missing’s a badge, coffee, and donut/Go to jail, so what? Never see my integrity perish/That ain’t the Harris’ way, study my pedigree.”
Those words show why the allegations offend T.I. so much. Yet by challenging 50 to a battle, he’s provoked someone willing to pour gasoline on the brewing fire.
50 will easily beat TI with
Power of the dolla n guess who’s back
Damn, totally forgot about, power of the dollar! Classic album!
Yeah , shit was cray cray, “how to rob” was on that joint, hell even a track with beyonce if i remember correctly
TI mad about 5 kids dying on july 4th. But he’d be mad at any one calling the cops about it? Knowing the streets dont take care of their own?
So the man who is known as ‘The Tipster’ is now canceling other folks due snitching? This is madness.
You mean the same TI that signed Iggy Azalea and promoted her and then ditched her the very second she got her first wave of internet heat? That coward?
TI is an opportunist. He will make a song with Kanye hoping to start a dialogue and then a dialogue starts and he immediately ditches kanye when he feels a SECOND of internet heat?
He’s fake if anything.
So because you’re hired and do some work, you can’t be fired? He didn’t ditch kanye either. if anything, kanye ditched him
Yeah. You go ahead and overlook the snake shit. See how well that works out for ya.
The reply was for clipp
50 did the same to Olivia but nobody remembers her cuz he did nothing for her career. Talk about opportunist G unit was made to push his career further but they were eventually forgotten about too. He’s a troll who adopts snitches like 69
This T.I out here crime stopping.
T. I. Has heat in his catalog but he ain’t fucking with 50..50 has banger after banger… Not to mention 50 ate him on “you so tuff” without even mentioning his name.. T. I. Only challenging him because he still feel a certain way about them old bars lol
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I kinda enjoy seeing 50 cent trolling TI like this. Clearly , he’s getting inside TI’s head as evidenced by TI’s short tempered and highly defensive responses.
Agreed , however I just wish 50 cent would channel his trolling abilities into putting out solid bars , like he did on How to Rob.
Your rap standards are probably Drake but I ain’t tripping.
This comment section is obviously biased. I like 50 but a battle with T.i woukd be great. I think tip would win.
TIP catalog is shit…he is not even near the “King of the South” like Jeezy, Scarface, shit even fucking Ludacris has a better catalog than this big headed hymen checking loser
They don’t know…so tell them..
Is it me or does it seem like Tip starting to look more and more like Trick Daddy as of late lol
Now it’s not just you. I notice the resemablance too! He rockin that “i just smelled a fart” look on his face just like Trick Daddy too.
It’s funny how people sit around and throw dirt/shade meanwhile 50 and Tip both getting paid for this battle and the free publicity doesn’t hurt! People getting bail on murder charges there are so many other important things happening in the world! Black people tearing down black people should not be one of those things! But hey keep the hype going it’s good for their pockets!! ?????????
Shut it,Hoe
How do you get caught with a trunk full of guns and still get no big jail time
Since everyone wants to be a lawyer, can you tell me the person T.I. snitched on? It’s amazing in this day and age where no one can keep a secret no one has ever accused T.i. of snitching on them. He didn’t get time for a gun case but who did he snitch on….himself? Social Media dudes always want to play Lawyer when they don’t know the details of the case or the Law.
to all involved in this convi there is something called the internet where you cam find gun laws. Felons get 1 to 3 years for possessing guns.
1 to 3 for each gun the extemded clip is even more time then the gun amd silencers are even worst then the clip amd being a felon on top of that it does look suspect
I’m lol on these cats on here. Social media fake lawyers. When it comes to felony gun charges everyone is different, it’s called status. Something these cats keep forgetting it’s up to the federal judge. He can suspend or reduce all charges. Learn something before some of y’all speak. Fam sorry I took over your section but they know nothing and when I hear cats say I got this much time then your lawyer wasn’t sh.. and your status was subpar.
Btw he did get a year in prison for guns that had no bodies on them even though they were illegal…in my opinion THAT sentence was obsessive on its own. Especially if you know I’m a celebrity so I’m not in the streets, I’m donating to charitable causes and you give out a year for this charge? Plus I like 50 but this is crazy. Dude challenges you to a vs battle and this is your response?
He got caught with illegal guns and you think one year is too much? This is exactly why no real conversations can be had about law enforcement because mfers like you are delusional and think no black person should ever have to face any consequences for any crime. You just want a free reign to commit crime without any repercussions. Ignorant mfer.
wow tell em why you mad son…
So let me ask you, if Tom Cruise get caught having illegal guns…none of which were involved in any crimes…how long much jail time you expect him to get? I know how much time he would get…NOTHING! He would get several years of probation and that’s it. So the idea of going to jail for a year on a gun charge is too light. When you’re NOT a criminal and you’re actually a celebrity is ridiculous. If they caught Keanu Reeves with a Rocket Launcher in his house, if you think he’s getting a year in prison you’re the ignorant mfer
You sound like an absolute idiot. If tom cruise got caught with illegal guns YES hes going to jail. If Keanu Reeves got caught with a rocket launcher in his house hes doing a hell of a lot more than 1 year. U wanna know the difference? The two guys u mentioned dont behave like violent criminals. TI does. There are often mandatory minimum sentences for illegal gun possesion numb nuts. That doesn’t matter if you are white black or green. Spare me your faux woke victim routine and get off your soap box. You sound pathetic.
Maaaan, I tell you, for the gangsters and dope dealers, the dudes be using too many emojis. I guess they replaced guns with emojis now, because they be killing mofos with them.
TI you a dam snitch gun possession in the feds is a mandatory minimum 10 years I don’t give a fuck
I was in the feds with peeps that got way more loot than you and they didn’t get no 24 months
So the best card to play is put 50 on blast for snitching too?
You ain’t got proof of anything, and it was the pokice that supposedly said what 50 did. Nas has also accused 50 cent of the same..Either way, this is why we can’t get the music. Fools love drama. Swizz and Timb dont want no parts of that.
yo felony gun possession is 1 to 3 years dummie
Ya for each gun.. And then possession of a automatic weapon is a charge for each one and then having silancers is a charge for each one.. Having certain types of ammo in the guns is a charge for each one And then he a felon.. And than there was more…. Lol… Ya
And TI had priors remember.. rat rat rat
Just remember that you need facts..facts..facts..
Fr tho I read the laws around felony gun possession. Want to know what the normal sentence is? 1 year -3 years. What was T.I.s sentence? 1 year, 1500 hours of community service, the crime stoppers PSA and 3 years of probabtion and a $150000 fine. Seems like his celebrity status cut his time a bit possibly because of the amount of weapons he had, but logically the only deal he cut was to use his celebrity status as a positive influence for the youth. This type of deal really isn’t crazy at all a very normal sentencing for a crime committed by a celebrity. People dont even look into this shit I swear man, these kids just want to bekieve TIP is a rat so they can listen to snitch nine again.
Yeah if you’re caught with 1 gun, T.I was caught with like 3 submachine guns & 2 silencers, he was given 2 felony charges and on top of that he was already a convicted felon, I highly doubt 1-3 years would be the normal sentence in those circumstances!!
It definitely would not be the circumstances you are correct. This guy keeps spouting off 1-3 years, 1-3 years that applies to somebody with a light record getting caught with a handgun not a predicate felon with machine guns and silencers.
Money talks louder than snitching j.s. but your feeble ass prob didnt even occur that all u mf trying to make money off accusation about a mans past he already did the time. Smh
Everybody who commits felony possession has already committed a felony…
C’mon young dumb niggas it’s called paid off. With the right lawyer and enough money you can buy those type of bullshit case’s fool. 100k cfor lawyer and campaign donation, some short time that shit over. Bmf members already home. You new niggas drama queens and haters
Naw playa he was caught with dope then he got the gun charges but, you sitting here with fairytales. 7 felonies before the dope and guns. Kodak attempted to buy a gun and still in jail. B,G, caught as well got 14 yrs. Both who are millionaires. There is a thing called confidential Informants. I bet you done gave plenty statements
Facts. It make sense thats like having rico charges. Like 69
Not true! Not even money can buy your way out of a Federal mandatory minimum sentence. If that’s the case then El chapo would be free too. He has way more money than TI the CI!!!
Kermit the Frog aka Tipster and Ms. Piggy aka Tiny got caught with ecstasy and dope and then he got gun charges, but you clown saying he ain’t snitch with mandatory time on his head. The Tipster is a certified snitch. He went T.I. to TIP aka Tipster. You never see real niccas accused of snitching go on a emotional rampage like this. If he saying 50 is a snitch then why battle in verzuz with a rat ? 50 been a street nicca and even Bangem Smurf that is at odds with 50 says 50 ain’t no rat. Hiphop niccas scared of 50 period.
Has T.i got this desperate to sell records ? The answer is yes
Clifford took the stand on behalf of the prosecutor in Ohio. However he claims to stick to the G-Code. To top it it off he pled the 5th when asked about other women being with him. Why didnt he plead the 5th when asked the other questions? I’ll tell you why !! The man is a rat. Even Mike Tyson calls him the Tipster. He even said out his mouth that he would work with the police to have a critic shot.
I agree he didn’t just bite the cheese, he picked which brand to eat
TIP 69
1 to 3 for gun the extended clips even more time then guns the silencer even more time then clips plus u already a felon shit smells funny to me
Seriously, even with rap star status…ain’t nobody beating that shit. Tip snitched, everybody deal with it…He just wants to keep his hood pass, you know since he’s hollywood now and all the hood in him has evaporated. No shame in that, the “hood” isn’t a good place…but this dude wants be street when it benefits him, you know like getting in the ass of the security guard of your gated community
U a bitch speaking on a man u dont know u prob a narc
Lil Flip said f*ck TI, so its f*ck that mark – Zro (Lil Flip – F*ck That N*gga)
Remember when Lil Flip whupped TI when he came to Houston and then a whole gang of m*therf*ckers ran his and his crew up outta h-town?
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