T.I. couldn’t stand not seeing his baby moms for longer than three weeks so he finally broke down and requested for her to come see him in prison. Pop the hood for more
Rap artist T.I. entered a minimum security federal prison in Arkansas on Tuesday (5/26) to begin serving a 366 day sentence on federal gun charges.
We learned through interviews that T.I., who is commonly referred to as “Tip” by family and close friends, didn’t want anyone visiting him while he does his time in prison.
According to friend Bobby Ray as told to the Atlanta tabloid Creative Loafing:
“He doesn’t want anyone to see him in prison. I thought about it, I was definitely going to come by a lot. But he doesn’t even want his kids to see him there. He doesn’t want that image implanted in their heads, of him being in jail. I can kind of understand that.” But three weeks into his 52-week stretch, T.I. couldn’t bare not seeing his baby, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, one more day.Although T.I. talks on the phone with his children regularly (the smallest ones think he’s away at school), he reportedly told Tiny that he missed her terribly.
So yesterday, Tiny and a friend caught a flight to Arkansas where she visited with her man for the first time since his incarceration. The friend wasn’t allowed in to visit T.I. because her name wasn’t on the approved visitor’s list.
As you know, Tiny and Lil Wayne’s ex-wife, Antonia Carter, are set to star in their own reality show which will air later this month on BET. The show will focus mainly on family and Tiny’s plans to keep herself busy (and prosperous) while T.I. is incarcerated.
According to an inside source, Tiny’s salon — the one you’ve read so much about on the blogs, is close to opening officially, but there’s still much work to be done. Despite the fact that you will see the salon on her reality show, it isn’t open yet.
But the big news is that Tiny is putting the finishing touches on an as yet unnamed girl group whose members will include Tiny’s daughter Zonnique Pullins (affectionately known as “Meek”), Lil Wayne’s daughter Reginae Carter, 9, and two sisters — one of whom is the daughter of Silk member Jonathen “John-John” Rasboro.
I just spoke with a source close to Temeka, who is still in Arkansas visiting T.I. in prison. Tameka said to tell my readers that “anybody can write to Tip.” She said there is no pre-approved mailing list. So get your write on!
Word on the street is, anyone who is not on the approved visitors list will have their mail sent back to them unopened. The prison where T.I. is locked up doesn’t have the capacity to keep up with thousands of fan letters a week so they are returning all of his mail.
Tiny also discussed the latest RiRi rumors about her sexting T.I:
In the Past 2 years I have watched the man known as T.I. become one of the worlds biggest celebrities and have to say that once you get to know him, he is one of the most kind hearted fathers that you will ever meet. The internet was flooded with rumors that, Rihanna was sending T. I. flirty text messages. This is what some sites reported:
“Rumor has it that she was trying to do the nasty with rapper T.I. before he went to jail…ewww call that something!”
“Star Magazine claims that the pop singer has ’man problems” and she just can’t get enough of herself. She was sending him flirty text messages and when Tiny, his girlfriend, saw them she got heated and told Rihanna to back off!” (source)
I spoke with Tiny today, she told me that all the rumors about Rihanna sending T.I. flirty text messages were all untrue. She said:
“ Rihanna has never disrespected me or Tip, I have nothing but love for her, she is a friends and all that talk about texting is untrue. She also told me about how she was just getting off the plane, after seeing Tip. She also told me that ”Tip he is doing good, he is reading a lot, and writing“.
Before entering jail T. I. started working on his new album which should be out at the first of the year. Tiny just rapped up taping her new reality show which will premier right after the BET awards. I will tell you more about the show a little later.
Sounds like RiRi’s name is finally gettin’ cleared. She needs all of the positive publicity in the world right now.
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