My favorite song

I really enjoy listening to all rap music, and T.I. is by far my favorite artist. But my favorite song by T.I. is Dead and Gone featuring Justin Timberlake. This song was for T.I’s best friend Philant Johnson who was murdered in gun fire in 2006, which T.I. felt completely responsible for and questioned if he still wanted to continue rapping. You can really feel the emotion in this song as he raps if you just listen to the lyrics, T.I. always rapped about his life and problems within it.

 

Lyrics:

Chorus:

(Justin Timberlake):
Ooooooo
I’ve been travelin
on this road to long
Just trying to find
my way back home
The old me
is dead and gone
dead and gone
Ooooooo
I’ve been travelin
on this road to long
Just trying to find
my way back home
The old me
is dead and gone
dead and gone

(T.I.)
Ever had one of dem days
u wish woulda stayd home
Run into a group of niggas
getting they hate on
U walk by
they get wrong u reply
then shit get blown
Way outta proportion
way past discussion
Just u against them,
pick one then rush em
Figure u get your hair?
that next
They dont wanna stop
there now they bussin
Now u gushin, ambulance
rushin u to the hospital
with a bad concussion
Plus ya hit 4 times
plus it hit ya
spine paralyzed waist down
now ya wheel chair bound
Nevermind that now
u lucky to be alive,
Just think it all started u
fussin with 3 guys
Now ya pride in the way
but ya pride is the way u
could fuck around
get shot die anyday
Niggas die
every day all over
bull shit dope money dice
game stash box contents
Could this be
cuz of hip hop music
or did the ones
with the good sense
not use it
Usually niggas
dont kno what to do
when their back
against the wall
so they just start shootin
For red or for blue
or for dough I guess,
from Bankhead
or from your projects
No more stress,
now im straight,
now I get it now I take
Time to think,
before I make mistakes
just for my familys sake
That part of me left yesterday
the heart of me is strong today
No regrets im blessed to say
the old me dead and gone away.

(Chorus)

(T.I.)
I aint never been scared,
I lived through tragic
Situations coulda been dead
lookin back at it
Most of that shit
didnt even have to happen
But u dont think about it
when u out there trappin
In apartments hangin
smokin and rappin
Niggas start shit didnt
next thing ya kno we cappin
Get locked up
then didnt even get mad
Now think about damn
what a life I had
Most of that shit
look back just laugh
Some shit
still look back just sad
Maybe my homboy
till be around
Had I not
hit the nigga
in the mouth that time
I won that fight, I lost that war
I can still see my nigga
walkin out that door
Whoda thought Id never see
Philant no more
Got enough dead homies
I dont want no more
Cost a nigga his job,
cost me more
Ida took that ass-whoopin
now for sure
Now think before I risk my life
Take them chances to get my stripe
A nigga put his hands on me alright
Otherwise stand there
talk shit all night
Cuz I hit you , you sue me,
I shoot you, get locked up, who me?
No more stress, now im straight,
now I get it now I take
Time to think
before I make mistakes
just for my familys sake
That part of me left yesterday
the heart of me is strong today
No regrets im blessed to say
the old me dead and gone away.

(Chorus)

(J.T.)
I turn my head to the east
I dont see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the west
still nobody in sight
So I turn my head to the north,
swallow that pill
that they call pride
The old me is dead and gone,
the new me will be alright
I turn my head to the east
I dont see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the west
still nobody in sight
So I turn my head to the north,
swallow that pill
that they call pride
The old me is dead and gone,
the new me will be alright

(Chorus)

Awards

Below is a list of awards T.I. has won throughout his career as a musician.

 

Won for the best dressed man at the 2005 BET awards.

Won for the best street anthem from his smash hit “Rubberband Man” at the 2004 Vibe awards.

Won for the best street anthem from his smash hit “You Don’t Know Me” at the 2005 Vibe awards.

Won “Best Male Hip-Hop Artist” at the 2006 BET Awards, and came in second place for “Viewers Choice.”

Won best rap solo song and rap/sung collaboration at the 2007 Grammy Awards.

The song that started it all

T.I’s first album wasn’t a big hit like his managers thought it was going to be. In 2003 T.I. released his second album Trap Musik with hit song “Rubberband Man” setting his career into overdrive and his fans in a frenzy.

Here is the music video for hit Rubberband man.

New Singles

Currently T.I. has three new singles out for his new CD. One single which has a music video already is “I’m Flexin” the other two singles for the new album are “Pyro” and “Hear ye Hear ye”

Here is a preview of one of T.I’s new singles “Pyro”

The Arrests

In 2007 T.I. was arrested for purchasing a assortment of illegal weapons from a undercover FBI agent. Originally the judge was going to sentence him to 30 years in prison. T.I. admitted that he planned on buying the weapons because of a incident that happened in 2006 that ended with a close friend of his being shot and killed. With T.I. pleading guilty the judge gave him a plea deal changing his sentence to a year and a day with 1000 hours of community service. T.I. started his prison sentence May 26, 2009.

After serving his year and a day sentence T.I. and wife Tameka were arrested months later on September 1st due to drug charges. Tip was then sentenced to another eleven months in prison, starting his sentence the beginning of November.

T.I. and Tiny’s Family Hustle

On December 5th T.I. and wife Tameka ‘Tiny’ Harris had there new tv show air on Vh1 called T.I. and Tiny’s Family Hustle.

In the trailer for their new tv show you can see that Tip has his head on straight now. He is showing the world he’s willing to put Family before everything in his life and stay clean so he doesn’t lose them again.

Actor

Not only is T.I. a musician, but he has also expanded his career making appearances in three movies sense 2006.

In his first movie Tip played a 17-year-old Rashad, who wondered what he would do after he and his friends graduated. He played the main part in the movie, really showcasing his talents.

Here’s a trailer for T.I’s first movie ATL.

Tip’s role in American Gangster, his second movie, wasn’t as major as it was in his previous movie ATL. T.I. plays a nephew of a big time drug dealer in Harlem, Frank Lucas. In the movie Frank asks his family, the only people he can trust, to help him move, make, and sell his highly potent brand of heroine called “Blue Magic.”

Trailer for American Gangster

The latest movie that T.I. his played a role in is Takers, a high action packed movie about a band of thieves who plan to steal 25-million dollars. T.I. plays a character named “ghost” who returns to his old crew after being released from prison for one last job.

Trailer for T.I’s newest movie Takers

Musician

Sense being in the rap game T.I. has made himself one of raps greatest MCs quickly with multiple songs making top 10 in the country.

T.I. came out with his first album in 2001.

Following his first album T.I. came out with six more albums during the 2000’s.

Trap Musik (2003)

I’m Serious (2004)

King (2006)

T.I vs T.I.P. (2007)

Paper Trail (2008)

No Mercy (2010)

Family Man

T.I has been engaged to Tameka ‘Tiny’ Cottle for ten years sense 2000 and finally got married in 2010. T.I. and Tiny had a small private ceremony in Miami. Having four children before the two he and tiny both have together makes six children with the oldest being fourteen and the youngest, Major, just a few years old.

T.I. new album

T.I. has been working on his new album sense he’s been out of prison. With around 45 songs in the works Tip scheduled his new album Trouble man to come out sometime in February of 2012.

Here is one of T.I’s three singles from his upcoming album.

“I’m Flexin”