AP - Oct 10, 2009
By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr., Associated Press Writer ATLANTA – T.I. didn t need to attend the BET Hip-Hop Awards to win two trophies on Saturday. The rapper, who is locked up in an Arkansas penitentiary...
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Tameka Tiny Cottle wants to jump start her career while taking care of a house full of kids and dealing with her fiance, rapper T.I., serving time in an Arkansas prison. Antonia Toya Carter is trying...
More »AP - May 26, 2009
T.I. entered an Arkansas federal prison Tuesday to begin a year and a day sentence on a weapon charge. The rapper made a concertlike entrance to the Forrest City low-security prison showing up...
More »E! Online - May 15, 2009
The self-proclaimed King of the South will be spending his exile in Arkansas. T.I. will serve out his sentence of one year and one day in the Forrest City low-security prison when he turns himself in...
More »E! Online - Mar 27, 2009
The self-proclaimed King of the South will rise again. In about 366 days' time. As expected, T.I. was sentenced today to one year and one day in Georgia prison as part of his plea deal with prosecutors...
More »Reuters - Mar 27, 2009
Grammy-winning rapper T.I. was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Friday for illegally possessing machine guns and silencers, as prosecutors lauded his anti-violence advocacy since his arrest....
More »AP - Mar 27, 2009
Rapper T.I. was sentenced Friday to one year and a day in prison after pleading guilty to federal weapons charges after he tried to buy a stash of machine guns and silencers to protect himself after his...
More »AP - Mar 25, 2009
When T.I. is sentenced this week on federal weapons charges, he is likely to spend about a year in prison just as his career is at its peak: His latest album, Paper Trail, has sold almost two million...
More »AP - Feb 20, 2009
A month from beginning a yearlong federal prison sentence, rapper T.I. was in court again Friday, but this time he wasn t in the hot seat. The 28-year-old performer, whose real name is Clifford Harris...
More »AP - Feb 9, 2009
Musically, T.I. s has had nothing but success lately. His latest CD, Paper Trail, hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts, and was accompanied by two No. 1 singles to match that. He s also won a number of...
More »Reuters - Feb 3, 2009
A new reality TV show depicts a U.S. rapper preparing to go to prison for a year on weapons offenses, but rather than glamorize his crimes, hip hop star T.I. is trying to teach others not to make the...
More »AP - Dec 23, 2008
A man convicted of killing a friend and assistant of T.I. has been sentenced to 66 years to life in prison. A jury in Cincinnati last month convicted 34-year-old Hosea Thomas of murder, felonious assault...
More »E! Online - Nov 28, 2008
A man may live his life behind bars for killing a childhood friend of T.I. A Cincinnati jury has found Hosea Thomas guilty of the May 2006 nightclub shooting that claimed the life of Philant...
More »E! Online - Nov 21, 2008
Looks like we might have a clue why T.I. went on a gun-shopping spree that got him in so much doo-doo. Flanked by some serious security, the self-proclaimed King of the South took the stand today...
More »E! Online - Oct 29, 2008
Yes, he can! T.I. may be a convicted felon, but the self-proclaimed King of the South was still able to vote for the next president. The rap star, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., faces a...
More »AP - Oct 27, 2008
Former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, an advocate for peace around the world, is now taking aim at gun violence in the U.S. through a new TV documentary that focuses on the rapper T.I. ...
More »E! Online - Sep 12, 2008
Big lawsuits are poppin' for T.I. The Atlanta-based rapper has been hit up by the mother of his two boys, who claims she can't raise them on the $2,000 a month he's currently giving her....
More »AP - Sep 7, 2008
The MTV Video Music Awards are all about unique collaborations and blowout performances, but a few show guests Sunday added a touch of politics in this hot election year. Host Russell Brand drew hearty...
More »AP - Aug 28, 2008
This fall is full of questions for the topsy-turvy music world: Will Guns N Roses Chinese Democracy finally be released? Can Britney manage a comeback? Will anyone escape the tween typhoon of High...
More »E! Online - Aug 28, 2008
House arrest has paid off big time for T.I. The rapper, who recorded his forthcoming Paper Trail while confined to his Atlanta-area home, made chart history as his album single "Whatever You Like...
More »Reuters - Aug 27, 2008
Rapper T.I. establishes the mark for biggest jump to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 as his single Whatever You Like soars from No. 71 to No. 1 in its third week on the list. The new chart will...
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