Should Have Said No
Posted by Bossip Staff
Clifford said in a recent interview that he should have just “walked away”…
T.I.’s biggest mistake came on October 13th, 2007, the night of the BET Hip Hop Awards. During rehearsals for the show in Atlanta, where he was scheduled to perform, the MC stopped in the parking lot of a local shopping center to pick up three unregistered machine guns and two silencers that his bodyguard had purchased for him a few days earlier. “I had a feeling in the back of my mind that something wasn’t right,” T.I. says now. “They weren’t talking right. But I thought I was above situations like that. I was on some ‘Nah, that can’t happen to me’ shit.” The gun dealers turned out to be agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. T.I.’s bodyguard had been arrested four days earlier and was cooperating with the police. “Ain’t nothing like having the feds watch you,” he says. “I’m safe.” But in a deeper way, he says, the experience has helped him reconnect with his faith. “I was walking with guns,” he says. “This situation has taught me that it’s better to walk with God and just have faith that his will supersedes any stupidity that could go on around you.” “After my partner died, I kinda had a ‘take matters into my own hands’ mentality. It provided a certain sense of paranoia. When you’re paranoid, and you’ve already been through certain things, your judgment tends to be jaded.”
TI’s Bodyguard snitched, yeah that was his bodyguard. Kind of fxcked up the way them woods try to trap niccas. The arsenal talk is on some Tony Montana, Tupac paranoid sh!t. Clifford don’t really need to be in the game. He a family man.
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Um….yeah TI ATF don’t play at all.
PEOPLE FOLLOW YOUR GUT INSTINCTS
I swear, you people at Bossip are dumber than the people you write about sometimes. So you’re saying people should never snitch? Just take the fall for someone else and leave your family behind while you sit in jail for who knows how many years?
Y’all some ignorant people, I swear. Then you go on to say 1 or 2 heaters is enough.
I’m shaking my head at the stupidity of you idiots. This is why so many black men are behind bars because they think they have to carry “heaters”.
Who gives a damn about firsttttttt. damn biotches.
HEY SMOKE HOMIE LOKE!!!
Now that’s a SNITCH = bodyguard…
Someone who is doing wrong THEMSELVES and will implicate others who are doing wrong just to get a lighter sentence…
Bodyguard got caught and wanna start ratting on everybody else = SMH
Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time…
However, I personally don’t consider a snitch a law abiding citizen who is trying to rid there community of the evils destroying it = guns, drugs, etc…
I’m shaking my head at the stupidity of you idiots. This is why so many black men are behind bars because they think they have to carry “heaters”.
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This is daxn sure the truth!
Hey Slide
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Who gives a damn about firsttttttt. damn biotches.
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HI HATER
it was funny when jamie foxx was on stage last night talkin about TI dont shoot me
ummmm…. have we found out as of yet what those guns were going to be used for??
ahhhhh yada yada
Who in the heck wrote this post, cause i don’t understand a damn thing that was written after the T.I comment.
REAL MEN DON’T FOLD? No! real men don’t go to jail for other punk poot ***** *****es. That is why the black community is *****ed up today!!! Going by that “DON’T SNITCH POLICY”. So your dumb ***** will take the rap for a another mother*****er while he goes free while u rot in jail and say ***** your family, I’m not snitching on anyone? How dumb is that!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM FEELING PRETTY DAMN LOW MUST BE THE WEATHER/ I WISH BOSSIP WOULD PUT UP A BETTER POST SOMETHING TO MAKE ME LAUGH OR SOMETHING>
I mean it is what it is. I dont agree with snitching especially when its to save your own ***** but T.I. made an error of judgement, a mistake, HE actually f*cked up so I dont understand why Bossip will perpetuate the myth that Blacks will blast a snitch b4 they would someone who committed a crime… Ignorant.
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Hi IJM, Slige, Cutie (your new gravie is so cute!)
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Who wrote this article? The person that did is not smart at all. Just dumb. “T.I shouldnt be in the game, cause he is a family man?” what kinda sh@#$@ it that? Bossip yall some ignorant streotypical black folks.
Real thugs dont fold
nawww, real thugs/*****s dont be byin hot gats from *****s they dont no. These fake as rap *****s got what they deserved for bein stupid fake azz bustas wannabes. Real *****s dont get caught doin stupid *****.
not a hater just telling it like it is i dont know you to hate!
Well I’m glad he realized how WRONG he was. That’s isn’t the type of life he should be living. You are a man w/ deep pockets now. You don’t need to be in the hood. ***** hire bodyguards because we all know coming to the hood can be life threatening when you have $$$. However, that was soooo dumb of T.I. and for the longest time I couldn’t stand him for this. I hope he continues to think before he acts and learn his lesson completely while he’s locked up.
Love my Ti . Glad it all worked out. Hip hop is hella happy. Shyt.. He and lil wayne the best in the game right now. The rest of these rappers are just luke warm. Can’t wait for Papertrail to drop later this month. I’m first in line at Best Buy.
He need to keep a shirt on all the time
I cant look at a chicken chested man with a 9yr olds physique
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You live and learn T.I. Just don’t get yourself in that type of ***** again, because your kids are the ones that will suffer. They will be without a dad.
@I’m Just Me, Aunt Viv & Smokey
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Listen, I feel yall when you say “Go ahead and snitch and be with your family instead of in jail.” That’s valid. I can’t hate that notion. But the thing is, those *****s got caught. I don’t know why they got caught in the first place. Where they buying guns for T.I. then got caught and then decided to set him up by working with the Feds? If so, thats a ***** move. If they didn’t want to do the time, they should have told T.I. no, and went and found another job. That’s *****uming if thats the reason they got caught in the first place. Thats what *****es me off about this. They did dirt, and in order to stay free, they put another man behind bars. And then you *****s come in here and say how that was smart? Negroes never cease to amaze me.
so i guess contracting H E R P E S isn’t the worst thing that ever happened to him?
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Stick a Benjamin in my string…I got some bills due on the 12th!!!!! [shaking and gyrating]
I swear if you going to do the crime you might as well do it by yourself. I think that is what keeps me at bay and on the straight and narrow (mostly). Because if I have a partner or partners working on the same thing somebody’s dumb***** get’s caught and now everybody has to go to jail. I was just listening to “It Was All Good Just A Week Ago” by Jay Z on my way into work this morning…
And you know you’ve done bad when your sister is mad/And your child got to grow up like “this is my dad?”/ The label end of a snitch is a lifetime scar/You’ll always be in jail, *****/Just minus the bars
I swear that ***** Jay be spittin’.
Imma big fan of T.I. and he gonna get through this. He had to do a 1 year bid b 4 he came out with Urban Legend and that was a Cl*****ic. I am a huge fan and been ridin for him when he was T.I.P. on them mix tapes “404″, “My air forces”, I even copped I’m Serious. He gonna get through this.
You just can’t think you are more powerful than God or he will check ya azz!
LOOKING FOR RE SO WE CAN CLOWN….
Bossip STFU. That was some down right stupid azz n*gger shyt you posted.
@ aunt viv
I know i’m late…thanx!!
whatever bossip…t.i. committed a really dumb a$$ crime. How many guns does he really need anyway? the bodyguard did what he had to do…why take the fall for a rich, spoiled wanna be larger than life thug. pleeeze.
yall dont know *****. this ***** TI snitched on somebody. HE GOT CAUGHT WITH A SILENCER. that ALONE gets you 15 years. this ***** pointed at someone to only get a year in prison. im studing to be a lawyer, that ***** made a deal because there aint no way in hell the feds is gonna let you get off like that with all the evidence they had on him. they caught him red handed, aint no conspiracy that ***** was there and money exchanged hands.
@yapz
Nahhhh…..I doubt it. Money talks; that’s the reason why some lawyers cost more than others.
Look at that chest and those arms. Dude needs as many guns as he can get. He sure in the ***** ain’t fightin’ *****ody. He should’ve rolled into the courtroom like he is in that picture and let the judge look at his physique. That would’ve been a self-defense acquittal for sure.
Thats true..paranoia and fear will make you do some stupid ish…
Clifford buying guns when his ***** really needs to be buying steroids and creatine, with that bird ***** chest. He looks all types of fool. But if he is into @nal sex, I’ll mos def let him smash.
I can’t believe Tiny is pregnant again. In the AJC he says she is due to have another son May 25th. Damn.
From the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
Q. On to the personal, you’re engaged right?
A. Yeah [to longtime on-and-off girlfriend, Grammy winner Tameka "Tiny" Cottle].
Q. Plan to get married any time soon?
A. As far as a date, I’m not setting a date because then it’s going to turn into a lot of fanfare. No relationship needs all that. It’s more hazard than help… And you know today, as entertainers, as public figures, there’s enough strain on a relationship as it is. I think that’s a private moment for us and our families.
Q. Another family thing, you have a son on the way. When is he due?
A. May 25.
WOW EVEN YA BODYGAURD TALKIN’ TO JAKE…***** YOU CAN’T TRUST *****ODY IN THESE STREETS
*****ody on probation who gets caught with machine guns gets more probation unless he’s turned for the FBI.
TI = The Informant
TI if you get a second chance please use it wisely!!!
@ Lisa
She had the baby this May….his name is Major
I just don’t get it, why on Earth would he need these guns with silencers? I mean, what’s he planning on killing someone…what a dumb bunny
Personally, I think that God was watching out for Tip in this case. I know some people don’t believe him, but all we have is this man’s word that he didn’t cooperate to get a lesser sentence. If you didn’t take the time to look up his agreement, then you can’t outright say he is snitching. It is a misinformed generalization. He was wrong, he admitted it and I can live with that. Why people still concern themselves with what happened in that man’s case, I will never understand. Stop worrying about him and do what you have to do to make things work for yourself.
Hi “I’m just me”
I know, I thought she did have the boy, but when I read in the paper today and it was said, I thought she was pregnant “again”….thanks for the correction.
T.I. has been wearing a wire. How else would someone with his criminal record not face possible time ? Remember when he was on Punk’d and pretty much cried to the cops when they found bullets on him ? He probably cried last October too. As much as I can’t stand 50, he’s right about T.I. lookin’ to snitch out others.
this ***** TI snitched on somebody. HE GOT CAUGHT WITH A SILENCER. that ALONE gets you 15 years. this ***** pointed at someone to only get a year in prison. im studing to be a lawyer, that ***** made a deal because there aint no way in hell the feds is gonna let you get off like that with all the evidence they had on him. they caught him red handed
How else would someone with his criminal record not face possible time ?
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@yapz & Mssmartiepants2u
I agree with y’all 100%…
That joint don’t make NO SENSE… He’s a convicted felon and he was caught with guns in his possession… That right there gets you some serious time…
All them guns he had with a corroborating witness and ALL he got was JUST 1 year = snitch
Maybe he made a large donation to the Police pension Fund
In the post it said that “TI was cooperating..with the police as well”…not only the bodyguard. gotta catch those subtleties they laid out. Thats why he really needs to enjoy his money and family and sit down.
All of these rappers are ridiculous anyways look at damn Ricky Ross he use to be a damn prison guard and they got proof and he stil trying to deny it they rap about some ***** that the never done just to sell an album those **********ers just like everyone else will lie to save themselves and look Lil Wayne always rapping about this and that got those damn tear drops and ***** on his face and havent busted anything etc. when thos crips hemmed him up what happened exactly………….. the ***** came out of that ***** they all phony they all got ***** in them
Snitching is just another part of the game that is crime. if you don’t want to get snitched on, don’t get involved, because I would most definitely do whatever it took to get off if I was a criminal and got caught.
Make better life choices, and it’s not an issue.
ya’ll people are stupid don’t ya’ll think t.i. snitched too.
TI is an informant!!
That was the deal the feds offered him.
YO BIGGUPS TO THE GUY T.I.{REAL *****IN MCCOY} REAL *****S DO REAL THINGS BOTTOM LINE.ABOUT SNITCHIN MY GRANDMA ALWAYS TOLD ME SEE AND DEAF HEAR AND BLIND.THATS THE LAWS I LIVE BY.OH YEA AND FOR MY *****S THATS CARRY GUNS LIKE MY SELF.IF U DONT HAVE NO FELONIES GET A GUN LICENSE.I GOT A CONCEAL PERMIT AND I COULD CARRY MY ***** ALMOST ANYWHERE WITH OUT THE P.I.GS *****EN WIT ME