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T.I.

American rapper (born 1980)

This article is about the rapper. For other uses, see TI (disambiguation).

Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980),^[1] known professionally as T.I. is a former american rapper. Harris is known as one the pioneers of the hip hop subgenre trap music, along with fellow Georgia-based rappers Jeezy and Gucci Mane.^[4] He was led to sign a major-label record deal with LaFace Records, an imprint of Arista Records in 1999. Then after his debut studio album, I'm Serious (2001), he signed with Atlantic Records, where he soon reached his mainstream breakthrough and co-founded his own label imprint, Grand Hustle Records by 2003.^[5]^[6]

Harris gained recognition following his high-profile guest appearance on fellow Atlanta-based rapper Bone Crusher's 2003 single "Never Scared". His second album, Trap Muzik (2003), peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart and spawned the Billboard Hot 100-top 40 singles "Rubber Band Man" and "Let's Get Away" (featuring Jazze Pha). The following year, Ha

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Artist Biography by Andy Kellman

Once dubbed "the Jay-Z of the South" by Pharrell Williams, T.I. gradually came into his own and established himself as one of rap's most successful MCs during the early 2000s. Like Jay-Z, T.I. -- born Clifford Harris in Atlanta, Georgia -- carried a balance of smoothness and toughness, and grew from regional acclaim in his earliest days to chart-topping records like 2008's hit-spawning Paper Trail. His iconic presence influenced new waves of Atlanta rap talent, and T.I. continued making music alongside those following in his footsteps with albums like 2020's The L.I.B.R.A.

T.I. was born Clifford Harris in Atlanta in 1980. He was rapping by age eight and signed on with Arista Records sublabel LaFace in 1999, changing his stage name from Tip to T.I. to avoid any confusion between himself and Arista labelmate Q-Tip. Although his 2001 major-label debut, I'm Serious, sold so poorly he was quickly dropped by LaFace, T.I.'s hustle was grand, and he pushed forward promoting independent mixtapes until he go

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T.I.

Rapper

Through his music, rapper T.I. expresses an honest view of growing up black and poor in the South, providing a raw view of life as a drug dealer. T.I. (born Clifford Harris) grew up in Bankhead, Georgia. He lived in a family that existed in a constant struggle to survive. In an article for the America's Intelligence Wire, he described them as hustlers: "When I say hustle, I don't mean necessarily broke the law and sold drugs but, I mean that they didn't know where their next check was coming from. They had to get theirs day by day, and they got it, some more than others."

T.I. was interested in rap music at the young age of seven, and found that he could entertain his relatives and feel included. He was making demos of his music by age ten or eleven. But street life interfered, and by age 14 he was dealing drugs and had been arrested numerous times.

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Despite the troublesome upbringing, T.I. was still drawn to music. He got a manager and was heard in an audition by Kawan Prather, better known in the music business as K.P., who was workin