T.I. has made an fascinating commentary about as we speak’s Hip Hop panorama acknowledging each the quantity of expertise and the way overcrowded the area has develop into.Tip shared his commentary throughout an look on Shaquille O’Neal’s podcast, The Large Podcast with Shaq, which dropped on Wednesday (February 28).“This technology jogs my memory of each …
T.I. has made an fascinating commentary about as we speak’s Hip Hop panorama acknowledging each the quantity of expertise and the way overcrowded the area has develop into.
Tip shared his commentary throughout an look on Shaquille O’Neal’s podcast, The Large Podcast with Shaq, which dropped on Wednesday (February 28).
“This technology jogs my memory of each different technology,” he started. “You bought some people who find themselves exceptionally dope, and a few people who find themselves simply alright. You recognize what I imply?”
He continued: “However it’s much more of it to select from now. I really feel that, truly, what they’ve completed with music is equal to in the event that they had been to open up the doorways of the world and say, ‘anyone suppose you possibly can play basketball? Come on out the stands out right here to the ground. Right here go you a jersey, man. Get within the recreation.’”
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— The Large Podcast (@bigpodwithshaq) March 2, 2024
Elsewhere in the identical interview, T.I. revealed that whereas he appreciated his colleagues — like Nelly and Usher — who had been part-owners of basketball groups, he couldn’t see himself investing in a workforce himself.
“So a lot of my contemporaries — like Nelly, you realize, he acquired a chunk of Charlotte — and Usher’s acquired a chunk of Cleveland,” he started across the 29-minute mark. “You recognize, folks be asking me, ‘would I ever do it?’ And I don’t suppose I’d, you realize? As a result of I simply can’t see me taking a lot of my cash, investing it in one thing, and I can’t do what the fuck I wanna do.”
He continued: “I simply can’t think about that. I’m gonna put my cash into one thing the place I can dictate, and I can decide, the best way it’s gonna go.”
He additionally revealed that he and DMX had been planning to collaborate earlier than the legendary rapper’s premature dying.
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“X got here to my home like two weeks earlier than he died. We had been planning to work collectively,” he stated. “He got here to the studio and I used to be recording one thing else. I feel by the point I had completed he needed to run to a different engagement.”
The Grand Hustle basic continued: “After which one time he stated he wished to go to the studio however I used to be on the home with the youngsters and I couldn’t get out, so he stated, ‘I’ma simply pull up on you, man.’”
“He got here by and we simply sat up all evening ’til 4, 5 within the morning, speaking loud within the kitchen. I used to be having margaritas, I feel he may need had a beer. Smoking and chilling, simply speaking like we recognized one another without end. That was the primary time we had ever actually [met].”
He added: “We had been speaking about youngsters and he left city that day and I left city, I used to be taking my youngsters to Orlando. And we was on the telephone planning to fulfill again up and work once more. I feel possibly two, three days later, he had handed.”
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