T.I.‘s son King Harris has been clapping back at those calling his father a snitch following a recently resurfaced clip from his expediTIously podcast.
Social media users are chiming in about a clip from a 2020 episode of the rapper’s podcast where he admitted to pinning a gun case on his late relative in the early 2000s.
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Some have been calling the King of the South a snitch, while others, like Birdman’s brother Terrance ‘Gangsta’ Williams, see it differently – and King falls into the latter group.
“Y’all could tell me I’m wrong or whatever. Y’all throwing out the wrong words,” King said during an Instagram Live on Monday night (December 12). “Look, listen. A snitch, a rat, a mouse is you putting somebody… If you put somebody else in trouble and you get out. Somebody has to do time and shit like that for you [to be a snitch].”
In the resurfaced podcast clip, T.I. explained that the scenario took place before his music career took off. As the Atlanta rhymer noted, he was running a hustle with his cousin Toot 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 recalled. “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!’
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“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 was murdered during the court case, and at the urging of his lawyer — and with Toot’s alleged posthumous blessing — Tip avoided incarceration by claiming the gun belonged to his cousin.
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“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!’”
In a response video uploaded to YouTube shortly after the clip resurfaced earlier this month, Birdman’s brother Gangsta compared Tip’s “snitching” scenario to his own, which involved him providing information on dead friends to prosecutors in regards to two murders.
“I never mention that I got out of prison just by telling on the dead,” Gangsta clarified. “Go back to Vlad, do your homework, I said I got out under The First Step Act…and that was part of the reason I got out ’cause that was put into motion. Go back and do your homework.”
He also brought up allegations that Lil Durk snitched on King Von following his November 2020 murder, asking: “I am just here to see: is there a difference to what T.I. admitted to doing, what I did and what Lil Durk did?”
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As for Tip, he also maintains that what he did wasn’t snitching. “Hell nah. Don’t nobody know about that, I just volunteered this information,” T.I. said on the aforementioned podcast episode. “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.”
