you can have whatever you like i say you can have whatever you like larry: our guest is the retired gangster, t.i., doing a lot of good work. making amends, as they say. birmingham, alabama. another call for t.i. hello. caller: t.i., i really love your music. but more so, i love tamika and what she stands for as a woman. can you express how proud you of her and can we look for any appearances of her on your show tiny & toya ? well, i mean, to be perfectly honest with you, ma am, how proud i am of her exceeds, you know, any professional accomplishment, i m proud of her for being the mother of my children. for being the love of my life. you know, what she does professionally, that s just icing on the cake. you know, that s wonderful. i love that she was able to, you
show tiny & toya ? well, i mean, to be perfectly honest with you, man, how proud i am of her exceeds, you know, any professional accomplishment. you know, i m proud of her of being for being the mother of my children, for being the love of my life. you know, what she does professionally, that s just icing on the cake. you know, that s wonderful. i love that she was able to, you know, in a lot of ways use her experiences and the things she s going through to shed light on situations and kind of inspire others. you know what i m saying. but i m not going to say that because she did a great show i m proud of her. i m proud of her because she is the woman that she is. larry: are you getting married? you know, larry, i definitely plan, intend on doing that. in my eyes, i m already married. but i do understand. i do understand. larry: for the kids.
thought into doing the wrong thing, you could put just as much effort, just as much energy, just as much thought into doing the right thing. you actually have somebody who you know been through it, telling you how not to go through it. but how you receive it is up to you. do i consider myself a gangster to this day? i m retired. i m retired. [ applause ] you can have whatever you like i say you can have whatever you like larry: our guest is the retired gangster, t.i., doing a lot of good work. making amends, as they say. birmingham, alabama. another call for t.i. hello. caller: t.i., i really love your music. but more so, i love tamika and what she stands for as a woman. can you express how proud you are of her and can we look for any appearances from you on her
off the top of my head, i mean, our music was born in an environment larry: of turbulence? and neighborhoods where this is the common activity. you know, that s kind of like asking, you know, why certain rockers all behave this way. why do they all have to use this, that and the other and do things larry: product of the environment? exactly. it s just the way. it s like a common thread. larry: wasn t it hard to adjust to prison, especially when you re famous? yeah, absolutely. i think time was a lot more difficult for me. and i mean, you know, it was just a lot more meticulous. it was just a lot more mental adjusting. you know what i m saying? physically, you know, everybody everybody i approached prison as a normal guy. everybody treated me as a normal
absolutely. i mean, you know, the specifics of that, though although i live a very public life, there are some slices of my life i like to keep personal. larry: was she very supportive of what you went through? absolutely. absolutely. very, very, very supportive. larry: you needed that, didn t you? yeah. yeah. i did. larry: do you ever fear you d go back? do i fear i d go back where? larry: to bad things. no, i don t fear that. absolutely not. there s not a chance of that. i mean, after you ve gone through although on paper you can say this person has been through jail and guns all his life, yada, yada, yada, but when you actually this is the most severe, the most severe just the most severe encounter with the law that i ve ever had, and