It’s been over a decade since T.I. dropped his debut I’m Serious, and he’s thinking about leaving the game. During an interview with Power 105’s The Breakfast Club, Tip said that he’s built a Hip Hop empire with Grand Hustle and that if his artists begin to outsell him, then he has good reason to exit the game.
“This is what everyone fails to realize. I want out. I want out, man,” he said. “What the game is going to and what has evolved into from a personality standpoint, it goes against what I represent. What I embody, this game contradicts that. I want out. I’m in it because I love music and I have obligations, contractually.”
Tip addressed how the content of music has changed over the years, and how a rapper can spit lyrics about a life they don’t actually live and succeed. He says that if those artists begin to outsell him, then he has no problem ducking from the game.
“It was at one time, this music was about speaking to the people who felt like you feel. Now, the people I’m speaking to, they don’t necessarily feel like how I feel. In my day, if you were rapping about something you weren’t really living, that was a strike against you. You were held accountable. Nowadays, nobody even expects you to live up to the things you rap about. That goes against what I represent, what I stand for. So if they outsell me, then that’s just all the more better for me to fade to the back and cross my legs on my desk.”
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yeah rap aint what it used to be since you were dropping your wack albums. retire and never touch the mic again.
drop dead, hatin ass nigga
TI is sweaty man cheeks anyway.
Him and Drake won’t be missed.
ti is so ture. but then again he has to work for his spot back. to be on top nowadays you have to be hot and consistant. if you lack any of those you will not make it in this industry.
He needs to stop paying attention to the radio and look elsewhere like most of us in our mid 20’s and older have been doing. Radio Rap is for kids & idiots, but they arent the only ones out there making hip hop.
Expand your horizons Tip, plenty of dope stuff out there
Well said, agree all the way
That might’ve been the brightest comment I’ve ever read on here.
CO/SIGN!!
1+ my man
For me personanlly, records sold and airplay means nothing regarding whether or not it’s classic hiphop, on the contrary. Get rich and make hiphop for the love of the music, fuck the numbers!
Co sign. The best rap out right now don’t get radio spins. They keep sayin hip hop is dead id have to disagree and say rap is stronger than ever. These underground artist are making album quality mixtapes that are dope as shit. Good shit is out there.
You are right man, all the BS that air on radio and the Justin Biber’s friends rappers are so lame I wanna pucke. TI is shiting from where the wind is coming tho, the exact thing he complains about is what he has been doing for years. The problem is not about rapping about thing you don’t do, you can rap about something your friend or some one you know went through, or about something you noticed. It becomes a problem when you say you live a certain way when in fact you don’t, like lil gayne who’s talking about being a blood and is daddy/boyfriend baby tattooed 5 stars on his ugly head calling himself a OG when infact even veteran bloods said these guys are punk ass, they are running around yealling SOO WOOP when they don’t know shit. Add to them Tigga, Drake, Rick Ross and all the rest like Mick Meel, Whale and the like. I believe if you walk around with Gay MCs you are one yourself otherwise you wouldn’t. But history has proven that the gay ones are those who live longer and make the more cash, look at puff Daddy/P diddy/Diddy/Juda
TIP. Take the lead from Nas cuz. Hip Hop is Dead is his voice for what you’re just now saying. But, it’s 2012 and Nas is still coming hard.
If your artists are outselling you, maybe you need to change up your grind.
After dropping an album like No Mercy. Id retire too. Tip just the same as Old Tip we grew to love.
every newbie rapper in the game now spittin about how they got private jets and bottles on deck and nobody be checkin em on that. I agree with tip
retiring is such a big word. when rappers talk bout it, they ain’t gonna go thru with it yet.. until they’re done. like they feel, they’re DONE. they’ll just fade away without wavin goodbbye
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Things just ain’t the same for gangstas….
Ya well TIP you never rapped about how you snitched, or how you were a dumbass taking E pills and getting arrested when you just made a whole cd about smartening up. Hypocrite nigga
Thats what he is talking about, thats why he wants to retire, he is being forced into this bullshit
he has a good point LYRICS have no meaning nowadays
The only kings that come from the south are outkast and at a far distant second ludacris. Not one of Ti’s albums can get down with either one of these kats released.
There are plenty of cats making good Hip Hop that actually says something. Lyrics are not dead. Shit, listen to that new Killer Mike album.
Lol why does that sound like a slight at Offi…er I mean Rick Ross. He’s right though, a lot of us just ventured in other territories to escape this mainstream pop bullshyt.
I don’t think it was a jab towards Ross, but I was thinking about the same person when T.I. talked about it.
T.I. wasnt no big time drug dealer he use to just run drugs for kingpins. He use to hold the drugs and guns basically a do boy. Thats why he had so many drug and gun charges as a youngsta. We know the truth.
it’s only because rap with lyrics isn’t played on the radio and made popular, america don’t want to hear that shit. but why does that have to stop you from doing what you love? ti is a homo
T.I. Please Don’t Retire Man. I Don’t Care What You Drop In The Streets. I’ll Listen To It Regardless Of What You Put Out B/C I Know You Are Gonna Speak From The Heart. You Are Dope Regardless!! Fuck What These Other Idiots Is Talkin.
he is still the king of the south
Instead of retiring I would rather see T.I try and do summin to fix the problem
Tip is one of the few dudes with a major label distributing his camp, if he wanted to he could make a dope, well rounded album with some meaning behind it and, even if it didnt work, at least he’d know he tried.
Only way things will change is if people in powerful positions keep trying to change them.
nas wasnt lyin wen he said hiphop iz dead. evry rapper keeps tellin me im broke and how they bangin my gurl. jay z n kanye in paris while the rest of us broke as my tapeplayer. if evry body hates BET TV1 CENTRIC and they radio station why havnt they gotten da message.
Truth!!
wah! “rap isn’t the same” wah!,
Rap is constantly changing, adapt or die.
T.I. USED to be the shit. Now he’s crying cuz he has to re-earn his rank after jail.
Nas is the shit right now.
Who the fuck would want to adapt to a time period where the men dress like women & the rappers on the radio sound like they got lost trying to find the special Ed classroom?
Adapt to that??…….. I’d rather die, lol
i would rather die also.
He doesn’t HAVE to copy the CROSSDRESSERS
There’s tons of good rap out there (kendrick lamar, meek mill)
He should just sell records or stop bitching.
Nas ain’t shit right now. Nobody is. Nobody is having success in this bitch like they used to do back in the 90s.
what the fuck cuz? you cant just jump on here and take my name son.
Actually, rappers need to broaden their subject matter. Rapping about selling Big dope and killing fictional folks is PLAYED WAY OUT. You are right T.I., people are lying, but it’s because they have a narrow point of view and the listeners are ignorant to believe it. Any real dude knows that street folks do not talk about things they did in the streets, it’s too dangerous and self implicating. So for a Rick Ross or others to talk about moving keys to Belize’ and Bricks of Ye’ to the bay is all fictional. But the sad part is folsk buy it, people actually like to be lied too. And then when someone real comes and talks about something that matters, everyone goes WTF?! but then complain that rappers need to diversify. America is stupid.
Co-sign 100%. Which is why I believe that Lupe Fiasco isn’t as popular as he could or should be.
Big fan of Tip (even though the nigga went and snitched to the feds to get a lesser charge) so heres hoping he dont leave the game. In terms of southern rappers Tip top 5, but I agree wit what he sayin. You got niggas now wearin leopard jeggings, kissin men, crying in they raps, starting fake beefs the game has got lame with all the faggotry and bad lyrics in hip hop. Luckily theyre still some cats that make hot music.
Bawse!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This retarded as concept of “snitching” has already gotten and will continue to get dumb niggas like you killed. Assholes…fucking up your own communities.
Isn’t he part of the problem …….
check out my mixtape…http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/coldd-severe-infection-mixtape.54613.html
That don’t change shit T.I. you still a bitch made nigga and by no means you are the king of the south come to Texas fam and we show about what the South really is about
FUCK Texas.
1) If an artist is only allowed to rap about his real life, he/she will eventually run out of material.
2) So he doesn’t like people “falsely portraying their self” in rap… so when he did all those inspirational tracks and THEN GOT CAUGHT/ARRESTED LIVING THE OPPOSITE OF HOW HE WAS CURRENTLY PORTRAYING HIMSELF IN HIS MUSIC AND HIS MTV SHOW… how is he not guilty of the same thing he is condemning?
3) Music is a form of art, and to say rap music has to be real is ridiculous and boring. Sure too short had mad bitches, but did EVERY story really happen? Considering, I personally remember a song about Too Short speaking with Ronald Reagan about selling cocaine and Nancy Reagan giving Too Short some head, I sincerely doubt it.
4) Considering the reference I just made is from a track late 80’s, T I saying that, “fiction-rapping” is new, is f*ckin ridiculous. People see what they wanna see and hear what they wanna hear. Apparently, he just now opened his eyes to other’s who falsely portray their self, but conveniently forgot to open his eyes & ears and look in the mirror about what’s “real” about his own music.
5) TI… Dog… they’ve been outselling you for a while now and some were doing it long before you, regardless of how real, fake, or ridiculous some of their rapping was. eminem
6) Not even GANGSTA RAP is/was meant to be completely based on their true life, otherwise they are just basically snitchin on their self.
It amazes me how successful someone could be in the industry and still be completely oblivious about the industry and the people in it.
~SmacOne
good comment
Thank you. Finally someone who gets it.
couldnt agree more tip
Please retire nigga you one of the hos that killed hip hop with y’all trash ass shit
Lmaoo right, he jus a responsible. tryna act like he an exception..
T.I is one the few rappers i like as an mc and his personality dude is respectful but can still slap a nigga. Some the comments on here shows the faggots that visit this site just to talk shit cause ive never met anyone in REAL life that really hated on tip dude is dope
true story…
Cosign all these niggas on here think they are the god of Hip Hop and all their opinions matter.. no one gives a fuck a bout a hatin ass nigga. Tip was always nice with lyrics and flow dude was dope when he was in his prime one of the few artists who are real
isnt this the same guy who had iggy azalea, the real barbie, put out a single called murder business…and know he’s talking about artists not living their lyrics…..this guys full of shit
I agree, who the hell is TI to say that every other rapper is fake. TI was found with military grade weapons you can’t find on any street, he was released 7 months later and had a spin off TV show. Who else does this happen to? Nobody, sounds sketchy who is he really working for? Hmmm
I still mess with you Tip, but you got to realize like you just said, They Like That. No matter who spits that so-called street shit they like that. Wayne was a 8 or 9 year old rapper now he is a blood gang banger and they listen to that bullshit.”They Like That” bullshit. I believe that it is no room for anything real in today’s game.
crite
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what a fuckin hypocrite.. you’ll say all this bullshit then go do tracks with Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, etc..this is a lame publicity stunt trying to make it seem like he’s the last real nigga in the game or some shit..nah bruh you a sell out just like the rest
THANK YOU..this fckin guy goes an says this but he makin tht SAME commercial rap bullshit he tryna down. FOH.
take all the other wack rappers with you
Word!
i know how you feel, the rap game changed
fuk this generaton
In Essence to many Cornballs in the rap game.. it’s not authentic anymore.Rappers mouths are bigger than their Heart ex. Drake says 1 thing and recants soon there’s a confrontation..it’s just n*ggas rapping about Things they never lived. To some it up Everyone is trying to be everyone one else. Once it turned corporate it died..
rap sucks now. i started listening to rock
i started dubstep / dnb / hatusne miku
really Tip? you say that yet you sign that Iggy chick, make tracks with retarded rappers (that are exactly like you are talking about) like Future, and you make those type of songs sometimes as well. you hypocritical dumb ass.
I agree 100% he went through his whole “road to redemption” and then goes back to rapping about drugs and money? he’s back to his typical style of rapping just blending in with the rest. Very hyprocritical
No it isn’t. He has money, why the fuck would he not rap about it
Oh congrats you don’t like iggy. Doesn’t make him hypocritical bitch
…and ain’t this the pot calling the kettle black?
I have to say, TIP is a man of honor and dignity about himself . I respect this man to the fullest and not falling for that homo shit that theses so call Rappers and The Entertainment Industry as a whole. Much respect to TIP..
Rap is far from dead people.. just stop listening to the radio thats what polliutes your ears. The RADIO is dead! You have talented artist such as kendrick lamar, ab soul, schoolboy q, big krit, j. cole, xv, chip the ripper, yelawolf, rittz, z-ro. You’ve just gotta get in tune with artist such as these. Their the future!
c/s
I gets down with TI cus despite what he has done and the bone head moves hes made he still comes across as someone who is genuinely himself. Also dude is a lyricist and has made hits. he put his mark on the game and really, what solo artist from the south not named Scarface is better than him. Obviously Andre is the best but thats under the context of a group. what true solo artist has been better over the last 5-10 years?
TO MANY HOMO THUGS AND FAGS IN THE RAP GAME RIGHT NOW. THE EYE OF HORUS,CHECKER BOARD FLOORS,AND ALL THAT BULLSHIT THAT THE ILLUMINATI WANT US TO BELIEVE INN. HIP HOP DIED IN 1998….
hip hop hasnt been the same since 5O Cent and Game started beefin. hip hop went homo after lollipop. the only way to save the hip hop game is to tell it like it is.
the biggest problem is you have these dope rappers collabin with theses clowns ex. nas new album has a song with tyga on it, now i love nas but im not to excited for that track. what im saying is all these rappers who are real MC’s need to collab with each other and they need to mix up there beats with some of the new style and the old so tese young kids hear it. im 19 and i know kids 2 years younger than me who never even heard of Nas, Big L, Wu Tang or even DMX just to name a few which is sad, besides Kendrick Lamar all the new cats wack
Nigga Kendrick Lamar is wack too. All these new cats outside a few (Jay Electronica, Meek) wack as fuck.
Meek real? looool!
meek mill is fuckin weak.. gtfoh. kendrick killed him on his own track.
fuck u talking bout kendrick lamar wack?? u comparing meek to lamar? fuck outta here..u dont know shit about rap!!!
wowsers! kendrick is wack? dnt eva let me catch u sayn that again i will beat the shyt out of u nygga. meek rap lyke a lil high pitched ass lil bitch!! fuck meek! kendrick bringing hip hop back if anythyng! if charles hamilton came bak i wuld b fuckn content wit rap just off them two niggas! electronica is nice tho i can giv u that.
Clifford sounds retarded. First off, all of this is probably coming from the MTV Hip Hop POV Interview where Charlamagne put him in the “hot seat” for talking about selling drugs 10 years later after multi multi-platinum albums. Everybody pulls this card when they realize that their stock is dropping, TI is no different.
Good for him that he wants to get out but stop poisoning my culture with this nonsense. Niggaz been makin records about “real” hip hop vs “fake” hip hop since it’s birth. This shit is gettin predictable and corny
I take it you didn’t read the article, because in the very first paragraph it says that he did this interview with The Breakfast Club on Power 105.1 this morning. I know, because I heard the interview.
without T.I. the game will be gayer than ever
NO TIP PLEASE SAVE THE GAME
YOU SHOULD SAVE THE GAME BY MAKIN SOME RAW STREET RECORDS NOT MAINSTREAM ANYMORE, LIKE MIXTAPE FEATURING RAPPAHS SUCH AS KENDRICK AND KRIT
THERES MANY OTHER WAY OTHER THAN RETIREMENT MAN AND U NEED TO FEED YA KIDZ TOO
Destroy and rebuild, divide and conquer, this is what is happening from Drake to T.I. Retirement because they have ran out of gimmicks to exploit for money. Good riddance. The real hip hop is needed again.
Much respect to TI for this shit. Not a lot of rappers as high up on the ladder as he is would say some shit like that. Yes, he’s a tad bit hypocritical but look at Eminem. That motherfucker used to diss Britney Spears and N’Sync so he’d stay OUT of the pop genre and now he’s fuckin doin songs with Pink and Nicki Minaj. I may not agree with TI’s choice 100% – I’d really hate to see him go – but I’d respect him a whole shit load more if he just retired before he became an Eminem.
Real talk.
thats some real shit bruh…well im still hoping he can find a better way other than retirement
britney and nsync is totally different from pink eventhough they both pop, check out nicki new video as Nas as a lover boy. wht do u have to say about that. folks jst like hatin on eminem, wht about other rappers that collaborate with pop artist
T.I’s lucky if he becomes “another eminem” Em’s holdin shit down lyrically fool
yea u just sound dumb throwin em in the mix. ti did a COUPLE songs with timberlake jazze phae usher so i dnt get the point of wat ur sayin. dnt hate on em.
i bet he wont retire…simply coz theres no mainstream rapper who actually retired
i agree with Tip
all these rappers talk alotta shit about reitirin n how much they hate the game. jus so they can get people hype beggin for them to stay. i.e. flocka
Oh he doesn’t like where the game is headed..So being a snitch and posing as a righteous individual in the hip hop game is cool..hurry up and get the fuck gone then you rat….
he aint a snitch, google “Big Meech T.I.” and u’ll realize u are too idiot to act like a hip-hop head
things have not been the same for about 8 years.
He works for the Feds, he’s an agent. He had to go to “jail” to appear to the rap world that he’s just another “homie”. If this was you or I, we would be doomed for life.
yeah Jay-Z is illuminati and Rick Ross is free mason & the list goes on? simply GTFO.
Oh… so you young dumb blog thuggin niggas still tryna say TIP snitched huh? Aight coo. SMDH that’s just like saying 50 is really a snitch where’s the proof that either of them have?? Exactly it doesn’t exist and even if it was really attempted to be hidden there’s always somebody that knows somebody that knows somebody, so it woulda eventually leaked out to the streets a long time ago if it was true. Do you personally know T.I. or 50 to verify your accusations? I’ll wait… yeah thought so. I hate you NEW niggas yo.
true dat.. its not just the rappers its these new ass fans that act the same way. quick to jump on some bs and dont know jack.. aint enough real rappers – aint enough true fans..
boi shut the fuk up u salty cuz u kno ti fallin off if he wasnt then y u gettn so offended. ti done had that same fuckin flow since trap musik he aint neva redefined hiself ats y he fallin off. all u nyggas fell for that king of the south bullshyt thys nygga weak smfh at ti fans hes crap!!! fuck da city up was trash same old songs same old ti he neva switches it up!
you prob one of those fucks who like what lil wayne and drake and all them are doing what rap is now is basically pop so you tell me beacuase i rather hear him have the same flow i liked since the beginning then him try to do this pop shit crap like wayne i personally dont like him and his good for what he does but all they do is make the dumb ass people thing pop is rap
y can u just not lyke a nygga y i gotta lyke otha weak nyggas jus cuz i dnt say tis my king and bow down and shyt? bitch i lyke kendrick lamar slaughterhouse cudi real shyt i got excellent taste in music im jus sick of nyggas actn lyke tis the shyt the nygga got a DECENT flow and lets keep it real its only DECENT u know wat to expect every fuckn song ten yrs of that is enuff. trap musik was classic ill giv him dat
i dont give a damn, TI was real back then when Trap Muzik & KING came out. nowadays this nigga actin like a failed version of Lil Wayne. not to mention Grand Hustle is one of the lamest record company outthere. (LOL@Iggy Azalea)
So, I guess being an informant, is what he should be rapping about. Also, marrying a known industry whore and signing a wack female rapper.
in that case, there are alot of rapper worse than TI.
Lol “Known industry whore” you wrong for that T.I. would slap you haha.
“Tip said that he’s built a Hip Hop empire with Grand Hustle”
An empire? Not quite. An empire is where multiple artists are making the label money. T.I. himself is coming off a gold album that technically really wasn’t, so this so called empire is more like a collapsing camp.
There are tons of way to make money other than producing album.
dont try to take up for him. b.o.b is the only artist worth mentioning cuz hes pop but at least hell make money. dro is trash. psc is unherd of and nobody else on the label is relevant. wasnt killer mike on gh? smh. t.i. do rap a favor and retire u aint had a good album since king my nygga
lol,says the guy with a shitty life.
nah im living quite good actually. u ride around bumpin tis latest cd (wateva its called) and ima be gettn money.
Which will still be peanuts compared to what he making. Sit your ass down
yet he collaborates with rick ross. lol
nigga’s in denial
yeah ti it aint the same no more platinum albums you will be lucky to go ross ahah ross=gold i crack me up.
He’s right. Rap aint what it used to be. Better retire off a good album. NO MERCY aint cuttin it
His hay day was in one of the worst periods of rap 2. 04-10. I like some of his albus but it sucked when he was at his prime 2
nigga ain’t coming out hard since 2003. Admit it, he’s lame right now, and if he can’t make good music, he doesn’t deserve to breathe anymore.
lol really? what cave do you live in? Your moms vagina?
Whats he talking about? jay z, diddy and biggie invented the rapping about other peoples lives style of rap. NWA were pioneers of this as well.
T.I. fucking up the rap game, this is the supposed “Street Rapper” who gets his own girly ass Reality TV Show with his Wife… in the past he had “The Road To Redemption” bullshit show which he purposely did to avoid a jail sentence… this guy is dumb enough to buy assault weapons off the government agents? I thought real street dudes don’t get caught? Then he brings some Australian Girl Rapper who is soooo terrible that she gets dropped from Interscope…. This dude is more of a diva than anybody in the rap game, from reality TV to making people believe that he has pushed kilos… i like some of his music but he wants to go on this bullshit rant on 105 because he goes to jail for a few yrs, loses his buzz to the point where he has to resort to this shit
what wrong with the tv show any little money on the side is good and last time i check his talking about how rappers make shit up about there lives in there raps now if they were to just tell the truth it wouldn’t matter
In lame terms, my buzz has died out since being incarcerated. The concepts that made me hot in the first place has become a dying fad. The sole credibility of me finding my niche a decade ago in the rap game is no longer present to where my name can put another artist on, on the scale I once was capable of anyhow. B.o.B. carries my label now.
I’m trying to reclaim my street buzz by working with Trae, hopefully he can help me sell records in Texas. I really want Iggy to shine! Any extra money she can make that I can profit off of just might help me find some wiggle room to make something happen.
Rappers that came up in my era have no interest in cutting records with me on consignment anymore, I’ve been cut from the circle besides theres heavy question if I potentially could snitch on anything I encounter, just too much in the air to actually be trustworthy there. Plus I don’t know any of these new rappers and they are expensive to get features from! They treat me like a new artist. I have no more reliable connects :/
heh screw it I think I’m gonna quit, too many obstacles.
Lmao well written sir
lol ur a dummy
You’re an inbred idiot if you think Tip doesn’t have reliable connects… Seriously
Well he the 1 whining like a little crybaby. Dude got money and now hes upset the money doesn’t come as easily as it once did. Nothing worse then a has been acting like a wuss over being a has been, at least you was a was, be thankful for your blessings, don’t cry about not getting more.
Don’t know about the inbred part but whatever, If he had reliable connects that could help put him back in nationwide radio rotation and had the resources on top of it to pull it off, with no album coming he would have got in the studio soon as he got home and made that radio cut that would have reclaimed his buzz, obviously he don’t have it or else he would have had it out there long ago.
hes gonna have to rebuild that fizzled buzz from the floor up, not saying he can’t do it but acting like a punk and crying ain’t gonna get him back there.
First of all the dude still got 1 of the biggest fanbase in rap. He has loyal diehard ppl behind him and he knows that. That why hes not retiring. He sold 200,000 durin the first week while he was in prison w/ no promotion. TroubleMan will be huge..Just cause he dont have a top 10 hit rite now doesnt mean he’s not one of the hottest
you cant lecture people about street cred and then talk about collabing with kesha in the same sentence brah. youre playing both sides of the fence
hip hop will go on forever. aint no one man above the crew
hahaha so let me get this straight. when TI was big he didn’t care that people said the game was in trouble. As a matter of fact he self proclaimed that he was “the man who could save hip hop” on ‘help is coming.’ now that nobody cares about him he complains that the game ain’t the same and wants to call it quits…. what a puss
true but not one man can save such a big thing and when you have a bunch of artist turning rap into some pop shit rap will barley exist what they call rap now is basically pop
people are dumb… its been proven that hip-hop is by far the most popular it has ever been, almost every kid in this generation sides with hip-hop as their fav genre… everyone said hiphop was going to die 6 years ago when Nas came out & said it, well it hasn’t come anywhere close to dying
it has died you think that yolo shit is rap or moto that whole young money shit is bullshit etc
realtalk101:
In lame terms, my buzz has died out since being incarcerated. The concepts that made me hot in the first place has become a dying fad. The sole credibility of me finding my niche a decade ago in the rap game is no longer present to where my name can put another artist on, on the scale I once was capable of anyhow. B.o.B. carries my label now.
I’m trying to reclaim my street buzz by working with Trae, hopefully he can help me sell records in Texas. I really want Iggy to shine! Any extra money she can make that I can profit off of just might help me find some wiggle room to make something happen.
Rappers that came up in my era have no interest in cutting records with me on consignment anymore, I’ve been cut from the circle besides theres heavy question if I potentially could snitch on anything I encounter, just too much in the air to actually be trustworthy there. Plus I don’t know any of these new rappers and they are expensive to get features from! They treat me like a new artist. I have no more reliable connects :/
heh screw it I think I’m gonna quit, too many obstacles.
stfu
What the truth hurt your feelings?
TI youre lame boy, ive been following ya since 03, u fuckin let me down. fuck bankhead, fuck ATL, home of this fuckin pussy.
He talk bout him ——–>>>^^^^^^^^
Tip should stop whining and do summin about it if he’s so upset over the direction of mainstream hip hop
I agree with his point but he has no right to complain, his last album was a massive failure cause he spent the whole thing lowering his standards and trying to keep up with the bullshit everyone else is doing
Tip is one of the last MC’s with a major label push that could get away with trying some left field shit, so why not use it to your advantage
Call in some producers that dont sound like everybody else, collaborate with some unexpected guest artists and make a unique album that stands out from the crowd and reminds us why we gave a fuck about you in the first place
Its worth a try at least, because this whole “Jump on whatever bandwagon is circling” shit aint gettin you nowhere but miserable and cranky, lol
how was he lowering his standard? he hasnt even tried to keep up with what the “rappers” now are doing
He is doing something about it.. Trouble Man
The one who’s whinin here is you. And his last album was a failure because of lack of promotion, and it simply wasn’t up to par. It was a throwaway album he rushed before going to jail
well said, homie!!
The real problem is dat the new young rappers cnt really carry (or elevate) hip-hop anymore. Dats y fans always anticipate veteran artists like Em,Jay,Ye,Nas,50,T.I. etc. All of those guys changed the game and now the guys who are popping right now,(Drake,Ross,Cole,Wiz,Nicki,Waka) jus dnt have dat presence or classic records. Drake & Nicki both had a great start but for some reason, they’d rather make hip-pop rather than hip-hop.Granted, these artists are capable of producing some good records but there’s jus not enough consistency from albulm to albulm as there was in the early 00’s-08. Hopefully guys like Kendrick Lamar,J.Cole,Slaughterhouse & Big Krit will be able to deliver quality music and be able to sell records w/out selling out(atleast entirely).
real talk man, agreed
All those dudes you mention are dope, kendrick, cole, slaughterhouse all special and unique talents.
That being said, they can’t save rap. It’s not just about skills(to us I know that’s not true) but it’s about marketing. Hip Hop needs someone that stands out, changes the way everything is perceived. Hip Hop needs someone that is so good it makes everyone stop thinking that they are good enough to rap.
In music these personalities only come in every once in a while and Hip Hop is long over due.
“who gets his own girly ass Reality TV Show with his Wife”
Bet the checks VH-1 give him are manly
what does that have to do with anything ?
T.I. Is definetly right why you think most of the music thats getting out there is the same exact shit nothing is organic
I hear what hes saying.. im sure that a lot of people dont care to relate to real struggle and life experiences, but thats just those people
He said he just wants out..Retiring is too final! But either way hes still the best and one of the few top-sellers. Trouble Man will do stupid numbers cuz he’s out to promote it. He wont retire b/c of his strong fanbase.
Hip Hop is better than ever right now. If you are looking strictly at the mainstream there really hasn’t even been a good album release yet, but if you look at hip hop as a whole it has been pretty good so far. The only mainstream album I thought was pretty good was Breakfast by Chiddy Bang. Everything else has been okay-to mediocre. I understand what he is saying, but at the same time I feel like people in hip hop and the fans are still stuck up on being real. some of the most creative and interesting songs are exaggerated or made up. Only in hip hop will you get penalized for trying to go out of the box. I understand why, but at the same time we should just judge the music. If someone is going to play themselves let them do it.
BTW – Habits and Contradictions, Control System, R.A.P. music are all great and worth a purchase. Kendrick, Big Krit, Nas, and Curren$y coming soon folks
yeah it’s not the same.
cuz faggot “dope boy” rappers snitch get reality shows and give white hoes with no talent rap deals for dick sucks.
t.i. is a real bitch ass nigga let me tell you. azella whatever t.i. is a clown.
acts like hes a southern gentlemen when hes buying guns filming tell the cops ads to shorten his time. hip hop is dead
the game hasn’t changed. you’ve just become irrelevant. Paper trail was your highest point. You won’t be missed. Wayne is the true King of the South, and always has been.
We’ll see…TroubleMan…He’s still one of the top
damn you right homie..
@The Lie – Kill yoself nigga
Didnt sell his soul
what the fuck does that even mean nigga. this is star wars, grow up nigga.
nigga you want out because people know too much about you and that snitch alfamega, they know how you started a fake ass beef with lil flip just to catapult yourself up to a higher level, and ya got the nerve to call yourself king of the south? BITCH! you king of georgia or ATL, kick rocks YA LIL BITCH YOU!
Definitely a co-sign from me on this 1, Everybody knows the king of the south is Lil J from Rap-A-Lot. And if you gonna base that on rap artists theres 20-30 more at least that got more power pull then a T.I.
fuck lil j too he sued the pimp’s wife for ALL HIS MASTER RECORDINGS… ROBERT EARL DAVIS JR THE FUCKING KING MAY HE REST IN PEACE
Nah Ti thats some BS. Dont get me wrong I respect your hustle and like your music but what you said was some BS. Rappers have been lying to the fans for many years, if it wasnt about their background then it was about their wealth, cars and women. This isnt new in fact Im surprised people are making a huge fuss about it only. I even find strange when people say Dam all these new rappers jus talk about materialistic shit. Its been going for years but everyone acts it only started now. Also I would to add that TI recently collaborated with Rick Ross(and he lied about his past). Lots of rappers have lied or exaggerated their background, and besides TI`s acting like his a conscious rappers are one of those exceptions when he jus basically raps about money and that high life.
No disrespect though to TIP and his hustle, jus dont agree with his statement
intelligent lil b – you don’t sound intelliegent when you say every other line “i respect your hustle”
I don’t respect shit… nigga raps. So what. it’s entertainment. What did he think he doing missionary work?? DId he think being rapper is about whoes the most honest… a reward for years of selling posionus drugs to your people??
Nothing to respect about that young man.
more bullshit from the worlds biggest baffon.
Please leave, stop rapping. No wants your weak ass bullshit music about good guns and snitching… go back to making TV shows you know the money better.
yes
i will say this once and once only for TI’s handlers.
SNITCH
He sold 200,000 durin the first week while he was in prison w/ no promotion. TroubleMan will be huge..Just cause he dont have a top 10 hit rite now doesnt mean he’s not one of the hottest..Quit hatin on the King
For one he’s somewhat responsible for how the game is messed up. As far as his buzz dying down, that was his own doing, that last conviction hurt him idc what you say that dissapointed a lot of fans, not to mention the call the cops commercials. but he’s no snitch? riiiiight!
man i cant believe dudes are hating on this guy. WHAT HE’S SAYIN IS REAL TALK. babies and soft boys like mac miller and wiz and drake and all these other herbs dont know about real rap or livin a life like they talk about and bein hard. bunch of pussies even DMX was hating on Drake.
lol dunno if you heared any of their tunes recently but they’re all about bitches (well Mac does songs about playgrounds or some shit). they ain’t even pretending to be hard, they suck but they don’t pretend not to suck
ross got these niggas quittin rap hahahahhaa hahahahaha
It’s y’all young niggaz that got the game fucked up. Once upon a time, niggaz got fucked up for not being about what they rhymed about. Y’all young niggaz ain’t got the ballz to check whoever grabs the mic. Y’all just sit back and take it as it comes. I’m not a TI fan, but I respect what the fuck he’s talking about. It’s better to go out a soldier than to put out another wack-ass album…
^co-sign
This is one of those articles where you run thru the comments and see the geeks exposing their true nature.
You got a job? You LOVE EVERY employee you work with?
Even Kobe don’t like everybody on the team and the Laker offices, but he HANDLES THAT BUSINESS to get where HE wants to be.
Take all this niggas money away, send him back to the street corner for a year, and then put his a$$ back in the studio to make a record. Bitch a$$ dropping this shiz like we give a damn, just hype your record like the rest of em
FOH with that ignorant sh!t you typing. Take all his money to be like you so you can accept him?
Who YOU?
He ALREADY WON. Life is BIGGER than a some record you shrimps ain’t gonna buy.
Outside of beats and talent, inspiration sells records.
I feel as though this may have been true a few years ago, but generally this has been a great year for rap! Okay, I can’t defend some “mainstream” rap… But it’s not hard to find rappers that are working hard to make good music, that are both lyrical and relateable. Plus, satellite radio and the internet have helped good rap find its way to the public. Why didn’t T.I. have this problem a few years ago, when rap really was at its lowest point? Maybe because Paper Trail sold too well for him to complain.
snitch can’t make hits anymore…..hahaha fuck this nigga
Who cares if he did shit to reduce his sentence? Man came up on his own and did his own shit to get rich. For every one of you saying he’s a bitch for whatever he did to lessen the charge, I bet for damn sure you all would too to get a year rather than 25 to life. Trouble Man wont be hot if his heart and soul aint into it though…
100% agree wit t.i. on this. He appeals to a certain crowd. The ones who grew with him from I’m serious to now and street niggas who left it alone for family life and smart enough to leave that shit alone and parlay in other hustles. More than half the people I see callin him a snitch and fake and ain’t thuggin and never has.mwe don’t know what happened. That’s neither here nor there, the industry is trying to keep hip hop pointed to the young crowd and keep it a young thing. There’s no place for 25+ plus fans and rappers spittin some 25+ shit. He ain’t tryin to look like other niggas in the game changin they style and flow to appease to the new kids on the block. Clap it up for him. Great career and knows when to hang it up. On to the next hustle.
100% agree wit t.i. on this. He appeals to a certain crowd. The ones who grew with him from I’m serious to now and street niggas who left it alone for family life and smart enough to leave that shit alone and parlay in other hustles. More than half the people I see callin him a snitch and fake and ain’t thuggin and never has.mwe don’t know what happened. That’s neither here nor there, the industry is trying to keep hip hop pointed to the young crowd and keep it a young thing. There’s no place for 25 plus fans and rappers spittin some 25 plus shit. They wanna usher out the old niggas if they refuse to adapt. Like he said he got obligations contractually you think he wanna make Whatever You Like again hell nah. He ain’t tryin to look like other niggas in the game changin they style and flow to appease to the new kids on the block. Clap it up for him. Great career and knows when to hang it up. On to the next hustle.
His incarceration probably hurt him a bit but he should still make music regardless.
He still looks like a goody two shoes church boy. I doubt his supposed past life is real.
And no one wears fitteds with sticker on them anymore.
O please, he’s the KING! He’s not supposed to retire. He ain’t going anywhere. If he’s doing this to sell records…idk T.I. Anyway, you’ve left an imprint in the game. Jay-Z claimed to “retire” and look what happened….
Realtalk T.I is a false profit! He ain’t no king from the south when u hav Luda, 3K & Scarface! Gtfoh.
luda is a clown. he sells records like Battle of Sexes lol thats not king of the south do
WHO CARES TIME IS UP ANYWAY MAKE ROOM FOR THE FUTURE
KENDRICK LAMAR,J.COLE, CURRENSY, STALLEY, MMG AND YES (DRAKE) HE SELLIN THE MOST RECORDS DAMMIT!
kendrick lamar i fucks with but drake MMG and whoever else you was talkin bout mane you trippin mane BIG KRIT! THAT NIGGA GOT SKILLS HE MAKE HIS OWN BEATS AND RAP! TI OLE POLICE ASS NEED TO GO ATTEND A COP CONVENTION OR SOMETHING!
U RITE BUT DRAKE AND MMG GONE BE HERE FOR A WHILE
^^^no they’re not.
I totally agree with you T.I. What hip hop is doing these days are also what I don’t represent or follow. Its just not the same. People are rapping about false lives and this is bullshit. Those people in New Zealand are what we call fakes and I don’t want any part of that.
Say yall niggas trippin, T.I. aint snitch however instead he keept it 100.. I swear man yall niggas gotta be blind man foreal. Yall niggas actin like that shit be kept top secret or some shit bro.
says a informant
we want miss you, go work for the fbi you fuckin informant
Yeah, cause you definitely have proof of him snitching…
I don’t get how rap not being the same would affect his decision to retire.. He owns his own label, he can release whatever music he pleases to. What a cop out excuse.
Uh… no! He’s not gonna release anything if his parent companies aren’t satisfied… and we both know Atlantic/WMG has a history of tampering with an album’s final outcome. If Tip truly wanted to be his “normal” self the album would flop because that’s not what’s popping in these (End) times. The youth are fucking retarded and don’t want to actually listen to music with a message or a wider vocab. Rap is DEAD!! I can understand him wanting to leave when it’s out of his comfort zone (and, yes, he’s stepped out that zone many a times but I imagine he’s fed up). Hell I’m fucking fed up! So I’d salute him if he goes down with some sort of dignity (No Mercy can’t be stricken from records, alas)
#1 anon u got real shit right there
I love how people will hate on T.I for being a snitch with no evidence at all to prove it, and then make excuses for Rick Ross being involved with Law Enforcement.
Seriously, show me the documents where T.I said a name and pointed out, “Yes Sir, he did this on such & Such Date”
Because I can link you to the pictures of Rick Ross dressed as a cop, that’s not a conspiracy, a rumor or a delusion…..those exist
Sometimes I feel like I’m living in Bizzaro world reading the shit ya’ll post, lol
Church!!
Church!! I don’t know what’s wrong with the world nowadays
amen!!!!!!!! smfh and plus T.I. is way better than Rick Ross
Lets be honest…if he was still as hot as when paper trail released he would not be saying this. He is only saying this because his career has freefalled. Must be hard to be on top of the world, to go to jail again, come out and sell less than half of what your last album sold and have BOB taking over you.
believe me, he’s not fretting about No Mercy.. that was a throwaway album he rushed together before headin to jail.. plus there was very little promotion/marketing towards it because of the heat on him
I actually would be glad to go gold WHILE I’M BEHIND BARS.. just sayin
Plus at the end of the day, he’s milking heavenly from B.O.B’s success. I suspect too that he’s talking about Rick Ross. If that is the case, halleluyah for somebody who dare to talk against the mainstream’s favourite puppet. It could be dangerous to your career …
I never really listened to T.I until my girl was watching his tv show and I said lemme see what this dude is about. He’s actually dope! i do think he’s talkin about rick ross, lil wayne (the blood nonsense). No Mercy was pretty good too. But then again i’m one of the few these days that goes out and looks for music instead of some bullshit hype on twitter and watnot
no mercy went hard!!
EVERYBODY HERE KNOWS HE IS TALKING ABOUT FAKE ASS RICK ROSS….
or Wayne,Drake,Tyga hell ALL of young money
How does he not realize that he is EXACTLY one of the people who has brought hip hop to the bullshit it has become.
I was thinking the same thing. lol
how is T.I. one of the rappers who’ve done that he raps about his life the truth if anything his music evolved and has become better
3/4 of you haters don’t make a lick of fucking sense. lemme explain why.
you guys who are bringing this all the way back to commercial vs. underground debate need to kill that shit. T.I. raps about hoes and money, but that’s REAL.. that is who he is. he has several platinum albums and top form swagger, you expect him to rap bout something else? exactly, argument #1 done.
then, some of you talk bout how, oh he collaborates with niggas like Rick Ross and shit. here’s the thing, in the same article, he says that he loves music. HE LOVES MUSIC. he still loves the game deep down inside, and that includes the things he raps about, and the things Ross raps about, which are similar. hell, later on he says he don’t like using the word “retiring” because it’s too final. he’s not gonna stop collaborating with every god damn rapper with a shady history just cause he said that. THAT’S NOT WHAT IT MEANS. READ WHAT HE SAID AGAIN.
third, the snitch thing. holy fucking fuck let it go. there ain’t one piece of paper with his signature on it. you haters are just sounding like desperate broken records right now. even if you’re not a T.I. fan, shouting out that bullshit like you think it’s gon make a difference.. nah it makes you look ignorant b. wanna say I’m dickridin? fine, better than sounding retarded with that snitch shit.
Co-sign with everything, brother!
HATERS TRY BEAT THIS ONE HAHAHAAHAHHAH THERE AINT NO HATERS CAN BEAT THIS ONE
Your trying to hard to defend him man, that says it all right there.
For the record, I have nothing against TI. But what he was saying was how a lot of rappers felt when he first came in the game.
I’m not trying hard. it’s fucking effortless. there is zero sense some of these haters are making, it’s crazy.
I’m not jumpin down the throat of those haters who call him wack and shit, that’s their opinion… but the whole snitch thing annoys me beyond belief, it’s so played out because they have nothing else to throw at him
Nobody gets caught with a single fully automatic weapon in the United States of America and does 1 year, let alone a felon with multiple fully automatic weapons. Hell you get more then 1 year for 1 unregistered semi automatic weapon. I don’t have to see no papers, he gave up the top distribution source and it was struck from court records. You can defend him all you like but what you pushing isn’t common sense truth.
T.I. was small in comparison to the threat presented by somebody that could distribute such arms in bulk to the general population. Since T.I. committed no crimes with the arsenal a deal was easily approved to get such connected arms dealers off the streets, in order for T.I. to flip and give over those sources the deal had to be sweet. 1 year was a sweet deal and plus the inclusion into the agreement that his cooperation officially never took place on the record. His image can’t officially be tainted, but only a stupid individual wouldn’t know whats up there.
I don’t really care, I’m not a criminal, hes of no threat to the nature of how I live my life. However, obviously with the lifestyle he lives and promotes, instead of following the code he claimed his entire life to live by that made him a
“hard and credible gangsta”, when the time came to put that concept to the test and keep his mouth shut, he instead told all, if he didn’t he wouldn’t be free right now.
If I’m not mistaken, Pimp C was locked up on a pistol charge for like 7 years, An unregistered semi automatic weapon. He obviously didn’t give up the source when they asked where did you get this firearm? He may not have had the money to invest in a legal team like T.I. may have had but I’m quite sure he had money connects if he himself didn’t have enough to put up a well rounded defense on a semi automatic charge, that if they were giving away chances of a light sentence he could have easily had that time reduced. Fact is if you snitch you get a slap on the wrist if you don’t you do time.
@ETK
I just can’t belive you wrote this. Fuck you. FUCK YOU! Why the fuck you still alive after all this bullshit!? Die motherfucker, and bring that snitch ho T.I. with you!
>realtalk101
SHUT UP AND GIVE US SOME PROOF, THERE AINT NOBODY BELIEVE IN SOME GUY BROKE AS FUCK COMMENTING ON HIPHOPDX.
“I can’t believe you wrote this wah” fuckin crybaby up there, shoot yourself
and yes, it’s possible to get a year away with all that. He did a bunch of community service + that lame TV show Road to Redemption, plus like 3 other things.. all that counted towards the reduction of his sentence. and besides, celebrities get away easy with that shit.
If he snitched, it’d have been fucking proven by now. There’s no paperwork, nobody’s dissin T.I. in jail, nobody’s claiming their buddy got jipped cause of him… face it, and let it go.
Proof? You’re A clown. Personally review the facts of his predicament. Dude got out and did a crime stoppers video, encouraging people to snitch on others? It was on record T.I. purchased 25 illegal unregistered firearms in an 18 month span. The outcome was 1 year in prison. How much more proof do you need?
Yes, yes, the rap game changed because nobody gives a shit about rubberband man.
u gave shit like a clown. troll
It’s you TI…it’s you
SO MANY FUCKA NIGGAS ON COMMENT SECTION… JUST READ WHAT ETK SAYS AND FUCK ALL THE OTHER CRAP
Im a homo, jacking off in the bed reading you guys comments.
SmacOne:
1) If an artist is only allowed to rap about his real life, he/she will eventually run out of material.
2) So he doesn’t like people “falsely portraying their self” in rap… so when he did all those inspirational tracks and THEN GOT CAUGHT/ARRESTED LIVING THE OPPOSITE OF HOW HE WAS CURRENTLY PORTRAYING HIMSELF IN HIS MUSIC AND HIS MTV SHOW… how is he not guilty of the same thing he is condemning?
3) Music is a form of art, and to say rap music has to be real is ridiculous and boring. Sure too short had mad bitches, but did EVERY story really happen? Considering, I personally remember a song about Too Short speaking with Ronald Reagan about selling cocaine and Nancy Reagan giving Too Short some head, I sincerely doubt it.
4) Considering the reference I just made is from a track late 80’s, T I saying that, “fiction-rapping” is new, is f*ckin ridiculous. People see what they wanna see and hear what they wanna hear. Apparently, he just now opened his eyes to other’s who falsely portray their self, but conveniently forgot to open his eyes & ears and look in the mirror about what’s “real” about his own music.
5) TI… Dog… they’ve been outselling you for a while now and some were doing it long before you, regardless of how real, fake, or ridiculous some of their rapping was. eminem
6) Not even GANGSTA RAP is/was meant to be completely based on their true life, otherwise they are just basically snitchin on their self.
It amazes me how successful someone could be in the industry and still be completely oblivious about the industry and the people in it.
~SmacOne
Even though you just wrote a book you are right nine times out of ten rappers lie in their music but they don’t make it to be taken seriously it’s just music like a movie and it’s made for who the fuck wanna listen to it
Like I said. As long as you got Lil Wayne who is basically Bow Wow claiming to be in a gang after growing up right in our faces from 8 or 9 years old to now there will never be any integrity in this. People like to call Ross name but Wayne is absolutely the worst perpetrator in my opinion. By the way, fuck your opinion and I am out.
How is he going to say it’s not the same and he wants to retire ALL WHILE co-signing that whack ass white chick. Seriously, though.
i guess he’s doing that for purpose, thus he’s getting tired of it
T.I is just growing up and thats what he needs to do. screw all that childest bull shit all these rappers act like little imature kids.but of course they only act like kids who cant controll their mouth because thats whats selling
T.I. needs to stay and set the standard. leaving won’t help the situation
all the rappers from the 00’s are getting old and pushed aside for the new school. i dont like it but thats just how life is.
Not a huge TI fan but he’s right. Hipster and Rick Ross generations taking over. Pathetic. Still an underground though
all of young money, rick ross, soulja boy, birdman so many more but yeah he’s right those days of being real are over everyone’s a hipster someone should create a record label which hires real artists who actually went through the shit they talk about
MMG, excluding rick ross
nigga ain’t coming out hard since 2003. Admit it, he’s lame right now, and if he can’t make good music, he should just leave this shit.
Isnt this the same dude thats pushing a white australian girl rapping with a southern american accent?
lol she might not sound completely Australian (more like a blend US/Aussie) but she doesnt sound South American lmao…
Face it, this is what happens when you’re an artist in hip hop… you get older than 30 and you’re no longer relevant. Hip Hop has become the flavor of the month. Nobody who’s on the radio and pushes units is saying anything, it’s just another song for the club. Underground is always alive, but Hip Hop on the mainstream is dead.. it’s now a mix of all other genres with a crappy rapper like Flo Rida on the song. TI made his paper, as will the newer, younger kids… make that papers, but musically? This shit has been in the dumpster for a minute.
Totally agree but you need to keep it going TIP!!
Nowadays rap is shit i agree but stop being a bitch, you can still make music and if you are not concerned with the mainstream then make music that caters to real hip hop fans.