T.I.’s sons King and Domani Harris have teamed up for a collaboration which finds the brothers paying homage to their dad and the ways in which he’s shaped who they are.
“Father Like Sons” arrived via a Complex premiere on Wednesday (November 29) before hitting streaming services on Friday (December 1).
King kicks off the piano-driven tune seemingly defending some of the recent antics that have generated headlines around his name.
“This shit just run in the family, I ain’t capping, n-gga/I got that side of my pops, I ain’t acting n-gga,” he warbles. “There’s a hating ass n-gga that want me dead.”
Domani takes the baton: “Stunt like my daddy, cool like my daddy/Running from it for a while but I’m just so much like my daddy/Can’t ignore it no more/They say how much more do you want.”
Listen to “Father Like Sons” below.
King described the tune as a means to share more about his identity apart from his superstar father, while still showing him love for paving the way.
“‘Father Like Sons’ describes my life off of the camera and the person that I am independently,” he told Complex. “On this record I share genuinely how I am, I get it from my Pops who instilled this into me as a youngin. I was smaller than everyone and in public school by myself with nobody but me, and my brothers were at their mom house goin’ to different schools.”
He continued: “Pops taught me how to stand up for myself and take no shit and that’s who I am regardless of where I’m from, and what I come from. I stand on my 10 I was trained like that!! I’M NOT NO GANGSTA, NOT NO THUG, NOT DA TOUGHEST, but I STAND ON BUSINESS!!! I ain’t gotta act to be nothing. At da end of da day it’s in me not on me, IF U KNOW ME U KNOW, IF U DON’T GOOD.”
The timing of the heartfelt track’s arrival is fitting following last weekend’s “silver spoon” argument between King and T.I. which spilled into the public eye at the Atlanta Falcons game where Tip performed.
The shouting match soon turned physical, with T.I. putting his son in a headlock and telling him: “You are embarrassing yourself and your family! Boy, you can’t do nothing with me! Ain’t shit you can do with me!”
King later addressed the altercation on social media, writing: “If ima mistake say dat stop making da world think u fw me when u DONT. N-gga be faking a image for da internet &. It AINT Me.”
However, cooler heads prevailed and the father-son combination was able to patch things up and move forward in their relationship.
“Fck what dis internet talkin bout… Da HFamily Tied Like a Knot,” T.I. wrote to IG. “We all We Got…4LIFE… Ima RIDE to da heavens or da depths of HELL bout my Jr.& ain’t nothing gon change that.”
Ain’t nobody listening to this clown. His dad probably made him write that song as punishment for recently making them both look stupid on the internet
Dad, we love the way you say this country is systematically racist, and that a black man can never get ahead or get a fair deal. The reason we think that’s awesome is because you’re worth over 50M and have multiple felonies, including a stint in prison for a few years. You were arrested for buying machine guns with silencers dad, and you still have a watch worth more money than most Americans, regardless of race, will see I. Their lives. You’re a civil rights hero. We love you.
You sound pretty damn stupid. “Let he without sin cast the first stone” The only difference between your sins and his is that you know his and no one knows yours. No one sin is bigger than the other, and everyone makes mistakes in life.
who the fuck cares what that bluehaired freak has to say? if daddy wasnt famous he’d be the biggest zero on the planet.