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  T.I. Shares Molly and Models With Lil Wayne on New Single, 'Ball'

  October 15, 2012 – T.I.'s Trouble Man is due out December 18 and that's exactly what he'll have — trouble, man — if he keeps releasing singles about holding drugs only a year after getting out of prison for holding drugs. …
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  Rick Ross and T.I. Confront Mortality in 'Bury Me a G' Video

  October 3, 2012 – Maybach Music Group head Rick Ross lays out his last will and testament in the Self Made Vol. 2 track "Bury Me A G," which just got an OG rappers-on-the-stoop visual treatment. Directed by DRE Frilms and Jon J., the clip is dedicated to Ross' rap associate Raymond "PNut" Adderly, who was murdered in Florida in 2010 during a home invasion. It's a somber occasion, so Ross has removed his signature sunglasses for a few shots. …
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  Lady Gaga, Middle East Victims of Unfortunate Musical Metaphors

  June 22, 2012 – Why did so many musical figures use dubious metaphors this week? We cannot answer that question. But we can compile them into a list for you. Disclaimer: Technically, several of these are not literal metaphors (some are similes! some are straight-up comparisons!), but for the sake of rhetoric, we hope you'll forgive us like the Vatican forgave John Lennon. 5. T.I. …
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  Rappers and Same-Sex Marriage: How Much Do You Really Care?

  May 30, 2012 – For those keeping score at home, the list of rappers who are ostensibly in favor of same-sex marriage now includes Ice Cube, T.I., 50 Cent, and Kendrick Lamar. I don't know this because they made bold, formal statements like Jay-Z. I know this because they were asked by Ad Age, MTV, Vibe, and DJ Drama's Streetz Is Watchin' Sirius/XM radio show, and then their answers were turned into blog fodder and disseminated across the Internet. …
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  T.I. Restores Our Faith With Giddy 'Love This Life'

  April 3, 2012 – In which T.I. reminds us why we love him. Tip's recent streak of musical activity since getting out of prison last fall has made it all too easy to take the self-proclaimed King of the South for granted. Generic party bangers? Faceless street boasts? …
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  See T.I. and Jeezy Literally 'Fuck Da City Up' in New Video

  February 24, 2012 – T.I. is a comeback king, and Young Jeezy is a veteran master of raw street-level uplift. …
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  Download New Mixtapes From Raekwon, T.I., and Das Racist's Kool A.D.

  January 3, 2012 – It didn't take long after the New Year's Eve ball drop in Times Square for a few rap wizards to drop their own brand new mixtapes. Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon's The Unexpected Victory is available for free here (via Nah Right). T.I. has followed up a flurry of late-2011 activity with Fuck Da City Up, which you can grab right here. …
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  Hear Ke$ha Get Extra 'Sleazy' With Lil Wayne, Andre 3000 and Co.

  December 13, 2011 – When Ke$ha arrived with Animal in 2010, critic Ann Powers marvelously compared her to the shit-talking heroines of classic '30s and '40s screwball comedy films, "brassy like Jean Harlow and saucy like Mae West." The times are certainly ripe for a return of a "wisecracking dame," even one who can be as gleefully dumb 'n' dirty as 24-year-old Kesha Rose Sebert — after all, Paul Krugman just yesterday declared we're actually in a new …
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  T.I. Fizzles on Uptempo New Single 'Pyro'

  November 22, 2011 – History would suggest T.I. has a genuine smash awaiting on his upcoming eighth album, Trouble Man, but if so, he hasn't released it yet. …
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  Hear T.I. Hold Court With Pharrell on 'Hear Ye, Hear Ye'

  October 19, 2011 – Wasting precious little time, T.I. has gone straight from the clink to the lab. After an extended prison stay, the Atlanta rapper is considering Kill the King and Trouble as potential titles for his follow-up to last year's No Mercy, according to Rolling Stone. …
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