Rapper T.I. dapped up Mike Bibby (#10) of the Atlanta Hawks Sunday night. The Atlanta native was spotted enjoying his last few weeks of freedom as he sat courtside at Sunday evening’s Atlanta Hawks vs. Miami Heat basketball game in ATL. He has about 2 or 3 weeks before he is legally required to turn himself in to serve his year and a day prison sentence. Continue reading for more photos from last night’s game!

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Word is Atlanta rapper T.I. has already started work on his follow up to his platinum studded album Paper Trail. MTV News says he’s already recorded 20 tracks to prepare for the new project, which is set to be released sometime in 2010. A lot of the tracks were recorded straight from the top of his dome!

“I’m doing it half and half,” he told MTV of his writing process. “It depends on the type of record I’m doing. I have records now I did and I just went and did it like I used to, and I got some where I wrote it down. I’m not committing myself to one way or another. It’d have to be an infusion, just depending on what sort of album I want to make.” [Watch Below]

“Recording is never a problem for me,” he added. “I’m able to record any time. Through the best of times and through the worst of times, I’m still able to record. It may change the sort of song you do, but you never can tell. You never know until that moment gets there.”

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In addition to the upcoming 2010 album release, the Grand Hustle HNIC will also be re-releasing Paper Trail with 5 brand new songs as well as other content. No word on when that album will drop, but T.I. has until May of this year to turn himself in to serve time for those illegal weapons charges.

It has been confirmed that Corey Williams has been given the same sentence (via a very nice plea deal) as his former boss T.I. A judge sentenced the former bodyguard/informant to one year and a day behind bars in a federal prison for his role in T.I.’s recent weapons scandal.

In court records, Williams revealed that he started working for T.I. in July 2007. Soon after, Williams’ previously clean record allowed him to purchase weapons for T.I., who is barred from obtaining any due to his previous criminal convictions. The arrangement was discovered by ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) authorities when Williams attempted to purchase a machine gun without registering the weapon, which is required by federal law.

Upon his arrest, Williams agreed to wear a wire during face-to-face meetings with T.I., which led to the rapper’s arrest on felony weapons charges. Although no charges were filed, Williams also implicated T.I. protégé Alfamega in the conspiracy.

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Now THAT’S what you call a snitch! SMH…

If you were among the group of MTV viewers who sat in front of your tubes Tuesday night to catch the final episode of T.I.’s Road to Redemption, you’re probably a little disappointed and wondering what the hell is going on. According to MTV News, the show’s finale has been postponed until next Tuesday, April 7th, due to a computer glitch. The episode that aired this past Tuesday was a re-run. Michael Hirschorn, an executive producer of the show, said this type of screw-up has never happened before.

“Basically, as I understand it, it’s a kind of screw-up that’s never happened before,” Michael Hirschorn, an executive producer of “Road to Redemption,” told MTV News on Wednesday (April 1). “The materials for show were collected for final assembly, everything was good and signed-off, and then the media became corrupted. It was sort of like having a file on a home computer, and the computer screws it up — only much bigger than that.”

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Rapper T.I. was sentenced Friday to one year and one day in prison on federal weapons violations, reports the Associated Press. In March of this year, the Atlanta native, whose real name is Clifford Harris, pleaded guilty to three charges of illegal weapons possessions after he was arrested following the purchase of illegal weapons and silencers prior to the 2007 BET Hip-Hop Awards.

He originally faced up to 10 years and a $250,000 fine for each count and had initially pleaded not guilty. But since changing his plea, he has performed over 1,000 hours of community service and with the help of MTV created a new reality series, “T.I.’s Road to Redemption,” where he warns young teenagers about the dangers of guns, drugs and violence.

He has 30 to 60 days to turn himself in.

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T.I. told MTV News that his former feud with fellow Atlanta rapper Shawty Lo wasn’t beef. Because he’s just too grown for a word like “beef.”

“See, I’m a grown man. These situations are not that major for me, you know? It’s always more blown up in the media than it is in my mind. That’s nothing to me. I never even considered it to be a big deal to begin with. So, something like that, I just didn’t do it for publicity,” Tip told MTV News. “I’m not doing it for the purposes of taking pictures, and for people online to talk about it and people on TV to talk about it. As a man, I don’t mean anybody no harm, I wish everybody the best, I ain’t never been a hater, I congratulate success, and I move on and keep doing what I’m doing … That word ‘beef’ is used too loosely, to me. ‘Beef’ is kind of like ’swag.’ People just throwin’ that word around,” T.I. said. “To me, man, if I don’t mean you no harm, we can’t be beefin’. If I see you, and I don’t attack you, it ain’t no beef, and vice versa. Everything else is just entertainment to me.”

Peep a video of the reformed rapper talking to MTV’s Sway after the cut!
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Rapper T.I., his artist Yung LA (left), and Vibe Magazine’s editor-in-chief Danyel Smith attended a private reception at the Eldridge Monday night in Brooklyn, NY celebrating Tip’s latest cover with Vibe. Continue reading for the rest of the pics.

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Atlanta rappers T.I. and Shawty Lo surprised concertgoers Friday night when the two reportedly united onstage at T.I.’s Club Crucial in Atlanta. The two have been going back and forth with diss tracks and numerous verbal jabs in interviews for over a year. Their biggest blow-out was back in November 2008 at the Dirty Awards when Tip’s crew and Lo’s crew got into two separate physical altercations during the ceremony, eventually shutting the whole thing down prematurely. But according to recent reports, the two have made up and ended the childish beef, just in time for T.I. to serve his 1-year prison sentence on weapons charges (beginning in two weeks).

“After that last altercation at the Dirty Awards, I told him my side of the story,” Lo said Sunday in his studio, located in Atlanta’s Bankhead neighborhood. “We talked for, like, 15 minutes. We decided in 2009, we’re coming into a clean slate. And he’s finnin’ to go in. What better place to do it than in Bankhead at Club Crucial? … It was unexpected,” Lo continued. “We already talked. Me being a man, I just went up there, and the crowd went crazy. They was shocked. We dapped each other as soon as I hit the stage. It was a good feeling.”

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T.I. and his reality show tv cameras were reportedly “too commercial” for a Brooklyn middle school where the prison-bound rapper was set to make an appearance. According to the NY Daily News, Crown Heights’ Middle School of the Arts was all down for T.I. talking to their students about how to “avoid the wrong side of the law,” but when they heard about the television cameras, they nixed the scheduled appearance upsetting parents, students and school faculty who were looking forward to seeing the Atlanta native speak at the school.

T.I.’s visit, which would have aired on his MTV reality show “T.I.’s Road to Redemption,” was too “commercial” a venture to be allowed in Crown Heights’ Middle School of the Arts, Department of Education spokeswoman Margie Feinberg said Friday.

The “Live Your Life” entertainer, facing jail time because of gun charges stemming from a drug conviction, would have spent the day teaching students how to avoid the wrong side of the law. Before officials canceled the event, students, parents and faculty at the school said they were looking forward to meeting the rapper. “We’re very excited about his visit if it’s going to help the children do positive things with their lives,” Principal Susan Hobson-Ransom said.

“It’s a positive spin on a negative situation,” said Seth Byrd, 31, whose son Daniel Jefferson is in sixth grade.

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Rapper T.I. and television personality Kathy Lee hung out together as Kathy filmed her reality show, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List in Hollywood yesterday afternoon. Random, right? Yeah, we think so too lol! Continue reading for the rest of the photos.

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