Just a couple days before T.I. started his latest stint in jail, he sat down with Vibe Magazine for an interview.
In it he talks about obviously going to jail again, but also how he had himself cleaned up off drugs and alcohol, but a trip to the dentist started him on the road to addiction all over again.
“And, mind you, on October 13, 2007, I had cut off everything―weed, alcohol. Then I get these pills and I start taking them for the pain at first. And then I’m like, Wait―this s*** makes me feel good. And it’s legal. After the pain went away, I kept taking it. I had like five, six prescriptions. So I had, like 80 pills. Everybody else might have a drink or smoke a blunt, I took a pain pill. Times when I had 18-, 20-hour days, I’d take a pain pill. And eventually I developed―I guess―the beginning stages of dependence.”
T.I. thinks after all he has accomplished, he is being treated unfairly saying,
“If you look at a guy who came up, no pops in the house, moms on welfare, food stamps; started selling dope when he was 12, 13 years old, came up handling guns, being in shoot-outs; started going to jail when he was 15. In all of this chaos and this mischief and lawlessness, the person who was just in jail for machine guns and silencers turns his life around. And now you want to crucify him ―for what? Three pills. I mean, of course it’s wrong and unacceptable and inexcusable. No problem. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s rather petty. It’s rather petty to hold someone’s feet to the fire for something so small when they have overcame things that were so big. All that could have been going wrong―if I was riding with more guns, or if I had gotten into a shoot-out and killed somebody, then I could see that. But just think about it. I’ve gotten it down to this much.”
What do you think, should T.I. man up to his jail time or was he treated unfairly? You decide.
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Since L.A. dropped the charges on him for that arrest… The judge should not violate his parole. On the other hand.. He kinda did violate, I think rehab would be a better punishment, and maybe some community service.