Let's just say that if catching cases were a college course, T.I. would be a 4.0 student.
He's that good.
His latest drama unfolded a couple of hours before BET's hip-hop awards show, in a Walgreen's parking lot. The ATF took down T.I and friends, accusing the rapper of trying to buy a machine gun and silencers through his bodyguard. Not a good situation for a guy who was convicted of distributing cocaine 10 years ago and has possession of ecstacy and numerous probation violations on his resume.
Maybe you think this is just another, young, knucklehead rapper, but trus', old cats who should have far better sense are caught up in the matrix, too. Diddy went Tyler Durden in a New York club, supposedly over an ex-girlfriend. Diddy got into an argument with Steve Acevedo -- news reports dropped the name like we should all know who that is, though I don't -- about an ex and things jumped off. Sounds like one of those situations where Ace stepped to Combs, like, "man, she said you didn't even hit that right." FIGHT! Besides, you guys know he's all emotional since him and Kim Porter broke up for the fifth time.
Anyway, what stands out to me in both cases is the poor decision making. The trauma affecting black males doesn't discriminate between old and young, rich or poor. We can play these as isolated cases, but the truth is that even the celebrity cases are a pulse point of the community at large.
T.I. fans might as well brace themselves because bruh is going to jail. For awhile. That he's been denied bail lets you know how it's laying. Police raided his home and found even more weapons. Like I said, a very big no-no for a convicted felon. My ghetto Spidey senses tell me based off the number of weapons the ATF seized from his home, that he was busted because his bodyguard was trying to buy a machine gun and silencers, it sounds like T.I. is still riding the White Horse. Or, at least selling it.
In general, I am always fascinated and frustrated by people who have grand opportunities and means, but treat it so casually. T.I has no earthly reason to have a gun. None. He has a bodyguard. He has a career. Whatever reason he has to be strapped, it's a bad reason. Especially since it's AGAINST THE LAW for him to own a weapon in the first place. If he's still in situations where he feels he needs to have a gun, he is effectively in the wrong place.
It's no different with Diddy. This man is easily worth a half a billion. Today, he is expected to turn himself into the New York police department. If you have half a bil', you and police department should only go in the same sentence if you're buying one.
They say money doesn't make you smart, but why shouldn't it? It's human instinct to protect what we don't want to lose. The two things human beings are most protective of are means and freedom, yet people with both jeopardize them routinely. If you come from a bad place and get to a good place, what is it in you that draws you back to what you most tried to escape?
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