i m not i m in a position right now where me being gone a day causes me what me being gone a year or ten years before in my life would have caused me. like being away from my children at this point, being away from my mom, my cousins, my uncles, my grandparents, my business, businesses, you know, me being gone, like right now, it s just it s just not there s no place in my life for anything like that right now. larry: his seventh album is coming in august. it s called king uncaged. yeah. larry: what about me, huh? anyway. weird. a sneak peek at t.i. s new movie. coming up. oh yeah larry: an iconic figure. he doesn t do a lot of interviews. one of our top requests of all time s finally made it. when i m on the street
help at-risk kids in the community in atlanta and abroad, using my experience to kind of keep them from going through the same thing. larry: how long do you have to do that for? it s a number of hours. i have 1,500 hours to serve. 1,000 after i started my sentence, five after i was released. larry: you ve got to stay straight? absolutely. without question. larry: another twitter question, do you think the sentence was fair? do i think the sentence was fair? i mention, asking me that s like asking me did i want to spend more time in jail. larry: no, it sounds fair for all of the things that you did. it s certainly a great thing that you re doing. well, see, i think most times when people think about this situation, they only think about a year and a date. okay, mind you, i had one year of home confinement where i could not leave my house. i was in my house for an entire year.
and acknowledge that, and, you know, properly apply it to my daily my daily the way i live my life. larry: have you shot a weapon? have i ever before? larry: yeah. yeah. larry: at a range or at someone? come on. i plead the fifth. at a range. larry: did you know how to shoot the weapons you bought? yeah. larry: so had you to learn that somewhere. absolutely. larry: that s pretty heavy armorment. yeah. larry: when you were in prison, did you say to yourself, why did i do that? did i ever say to myself? larry: right. well, i didn t have to ask myself why i did it. there s i knew why i did it. i did it because i felt i was in danger. larry: but you don t feel it now? no, i don t. that is the question, you know, larry: that s why i asked you. why do you feel so in danger
understand my position. understand that, you know, i can put myself in an environment where it requires for me where it may require for knee me to have a hand gun or artillery of that nature. larry: you can t do that. i m instantly at a disadvantage right there. if i put myself in that environment, i m at a disadvantage. so i just stay places where you know i can just be cool and i have security now. larry: do you take responsibility for a lot of what happened to you? i do. i take full responsibility for everything that happened to me. i m not you know, even though in certain circumstances i was put in, i was considered a victim, but i don t feel like i m a victim of society or anything else. i m the first one to say, man, your life is what you make of it. society don t owe me anything, you know. i feel like for me to learn from
here telling it for the first time. thanks for coming. thanks for having me. larry: thanks for talking to us. what s t.i. stand for? it s not an abbreviation. it s a name that my grandfather, my family and friends all call me t.i.p. larry: well, how are you feeling now, now that you re free again? well, i m just ready to put the bad things behind me and look forward to the future, and you know, just move forward and evolve. continue to evolve. larry: how do you explain, before we get into some specifics, all of the trouble that you ve gotten in? you were a straight a student. yeah, at one point in my life yeah i absolutely was. larry: how did you get in all of this trouble? well, this most recent incident, it came from an attempt that was made on my life. my best friend died in my arms. and that kind of caused a state of depression, paranoia. and my judgment was jaded.