T.I. Chops it Up in Complex Magazine
T.I. is on the cover of the new Complex magazine. Everyone can appreciate the “Home for the Holidays with the American Gangster!” line. After all this is time for the big movie push that T.I. should be on the streets promoting face to camera, mouth to MTV/106 and Park microphone. Circumstances don’t make that possible.
Magazines are generally prepared two, sometimes three months in advance. I’m thinking that only applies to interviews and stories, went it comes to covers, there can be some tinkering til the last minute. “Crimes and Hard Times”? <
< Not even about him, but tell me your eyes don't go there first.
In the article T.I. speaks on what kind of gangster he would have been in the early 70's, Frank Lucas's time. We'll assume he wouldn't have had the urge to become a part of the P-Funk/James Brown/Motown scene, then factor in his current situation, yeah, he's speaking from
the left ventricle. Don’t you love Wiki?
Is there a character in American Gangster you would parallel to your days in the trap?
“I can’t even compare myself back in that day simply because it was a whole other day and age. When I was doin’ it, it was chaos. Real talk, it was easier then, too. Not taking nothing away from them ‘cause they started it, but the police wasn’t hip to everything. By the time I started hustling, the police had cameras, the Internet, and forensics. [Back then] you could kill a nigga at six o’clock in the morning on his doorstep and long as nobody seen you, you good. Now you got cameras on street lights.
I feel like if I was a hustler back then, I’d have a way better shot at it. People actually respected the game. Whereas when I was a hustler, a nigga would do anything for a dollar. Period.”
☼ What's Your Opinion? ☼
I agree some of these articles and album covers seem like foretelling of things to come. I wish the questions could have been asked about guns: T.I. ONCE YOU GOT THE MACHINE GUN WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO DO WITH IT DOESN’T A GLOCK SEEM MORE PRACTICAL…WHO F*CKIN’ USES A MACHINE GUN AND FOR WHAT..WHO GETS A FRONT PERSON TO BUY A GUN FOR THEM ILLEGALLY AND THEN GOES WITH HIM… WERE YOU HIGH AT THE TIME OR ARE YOU JUST STUPID.
i feel you ladydi, preach on sista
Niggas just stuck on stupid
Who you callin’ nigga, nigga!?
I LIKE YOUR STYLE LADYDI, YOU ALWAYS MAKE A LOT OF SENSE.
Who am I calling, maybe i should rephrase it to n***r
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a person of any race or origin regarded as contemptible, inferior, ignorant, etc.
Convicted felon buying guns illegally. Hmmmm lets get real here. Same people who talk out the side of their mouths about stopping the violence are the same ones taking about free TI. If you can’t get a license, then you don’t need a gun(s). Would you like people without legal driver licenses driving cars??
MAN, THIS DUDE…..
O.K., SO YOU WANNA BE GANGSTA? BE GANGSTA, DONT BE STUPID, THOSE TWO WORDS SHOULD NEVER EVEN BE IN THE SAME SENTENCE.
A GANGSTA, WOULD NEVER, EVER, BE THAT STUPID, PERIOD!
I SAW T.I. LIVE IN D.C., HIS SHOW WAS COOL, BUT I AINT NEVER SEEN SO MANY PEOPLE IN A ENTERAUGE BEFORE,...HUMMM, IF HE’S “GANGSTA”, WHY DOES HE NEED ALL THE BODYGAURDS, AND GUNS FOR?
JAY DONT ROLL LIKE DAT!
I CANT SPEAK ON NUTHIN REGARDIN DA REST OF DA COMMENTS HERE, BUT I WILL ADD THIS,....
IF WE ARE GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING, IT NEEDS TO START WITH VOCABULARY. INDULGING INTO THE SAME VOPCABULARY ONLY FUELS THE NEGATIVITY THAT FOLLOWS BEHIND. IF YOU CHANGE YOUR APPROACH, YOUR OPUTCOME CAN ONLY BE DIFFERENT. “REALIT CHEK”
LADYDI, I FEEL YOU.
Well T.I buyin gunz..i dnt understand man..i mean what u gona by silencers and machine guns for?? It shud b peace on da streets cuz drez 2 much killingz goin on man..he’s a sik rapper but he needs 2 calm his hype..T.I ur 2 sexy 4 dat shit…
You are so sexxxy TI you and lil wayne are my hubbys to holla at ya chick
hay sharlene thanks for the comment
t.i is my man!!! he is too smart to be a criminal, damm!!!!!!!
YOUR WRONG
All yall stuck on stupid TI aint buy no gun. and so what if his Enterauge is big he needs it for all the hataz out there like u REALIT~CHEK oh and look at previous gangsters like tookie i wouldnt call the crips gang small nd he was a real “G” but u aint hating on him
All the money in the world cant stop you n***rs from acting like ignorant assholes. I hope you go to jail for life. What a waste!
Once again BET does our people a a HUGE dis-service. The airing or American Gangster the series is disgusting. First it gives all the glory of the gangster and about a 2 minute quip of things went wrong and bad so now they are locked up. A real “G” is not Tookie and it isn’t Nicky Barnes. Most of these people ordered hits on peoples husband’s and son’s and sold drugs that destroyed people’s lives and families. They need to show the real deal. Larry Hoover has basically no contact with people. What they have reduced him to is pure madness. You can look at his photos and see that he has been driven mad. We as a people need to stop looking at the quick and fast and brief moments of glory. So what if you made a million back in the day. The reality is the now and the future. So if you are now broke and can tell stories about how you lived and rolled hard then we should stop listening. The real “G’s” are fathers and mothers that take care of their kids and help with homework and give love and support and their hustle is keeping their families together and making sure their families do better. We need to think about the long haul. This society wants us to glorify the quick and fast and in a hurry and what it gets us is no leaders and no longevity and nothing to build from. So I do have a problem when you all sit there and say TI is a real “G”. For what buying a gun illegally or being in the presence of someone in his entourage who brought a gun illegally? IT’S STUPID AND RECKLESS. It is low level at the lowest. He made 30 million dollars last year he could have went to a f**king gun collector and hired someone to purchase guns for him LEGALLY as a collector. He could have the biggest glass case built in his home and still be there for his kids and wife and family like a real “G” should!
LADYDI, DON’T FORGET THEY ARE COMING OUT WITH SEASON 2 OF THIS CRAP TOO. YOU ARE RIGHT. SO SAD!!!
You f**king dummy you got all the money in the world and this is what you do. I hope you loose everything. You can’t give niggas shit!
YALL TRiiPPiiN REAL TALK
Please could you tell me how to post a pctiure as i cannot find where to lol Reply:November 30th, 2010 at 3:59 pmYes, go to the bottom of the thumbnails and click the small blue button. You will need to have your image on a blog page, or Flickr page and then link the URL of your image’s page.