Dear T.I.,
So jail, huh? Not to rub salt in, but I guess you’re sort of used to it by now. But that’s where I’m confused. Considering your history with the penal system, I would think that you would be a little more careful about actions that might get you thrown back into it. Like, maybe you could have had someone else pick up the guns you had your bodyguard illegally procure. Or maybe you could have just not bought them at all, particularly if, as some claim, your interest in machine guns with silencers (”no flash, no bang,” right?) was purely from a “collector’s” standpoint. You don’t sound like a gun collector in this verse from your song, “Live in the Sky.”
I bet you niggas think I’m livin it up
Til you see polices laughin as they pickin me up
Went from seeing how many bitches I could fit in the truck
To three hots and a cot, is you kiddin or what?
Fuck how many millions I got, nigga, so what if I’m hot
When I got prices on my head, feds rushin my spot
A million haters want me dead, forced to carry a gat
“But you’s a seven-time felon, what you doin wit that?”
It’s a Catch-22, either you lose or you lose
Well, you definitely lost! Good luck in the coming months. You’ll need it.
XOXO,
Lauren
LOL!!
For real though, I’m a 19-year old African-American female. I attend a HBCU; I come from the South; I went to public school….pretty much everything that connects me to being a black person. However I can’t, for the life of me, understand the mindset of many rappers today. It saddens me because I wanna relate to my people and connect with them, so I vibe to the beat of their music (because the beats “DO BE” hot!) even when I know the words themselves aren’t really appealing to me. Yet, everyday someone in the African-American (rap) community does something that is just ri-DAMN-diculous.
My people, my people.
African America is not rap. Rap is primarily anti-African-American. Rap is Nas, calling his new shit ‘nigger’, Rap is pro-violence, anti-woman, and pro-stupidity.
Agreed: My people, my people.
Can we please drop the “african” from american? Black people in the “americas” are about as african as Paris Hilton in a rap video.
Well, a lot of these rappers grow up with mindsets that aren’t really conducive to what a regular citizen might do. Its sad he probably never had the home environment to teach him responsibility, and how to be a man, and he has to learn it through the penal system. To me, its just sad.
ps; white people say african american around me as a sign of respect, thats all. And our history put the african or afro in front of it instead of us being the coloreds. I have no problem with it, because i dont like the SOUND when white people call me black…but that doesnt happen anymore
As well as you’ve been doing, TI, you mess it all up now?
tell it solitaire!