Via:Thisis50.com
Rapper T.I. has seen incredible highs and lows in his lifetime. The man born Clifford Harris is at the top of the rap game, but he’s also seen a close friend killed and been sent to prison for trying to buy military grade weapons afterwards.
Now that he’s back home he wants to help younger kids realize the error of some of his ways.
He talks to CNN’s T.J. Holmes about his new lease on life.
T.I. has been speaking to school kids about the dangers of drugs, gangs and violence, but some parents don’t think he is the right person to be talking to their kids.
“If you don’t wan’t them [kids] hearing it from me as long as you got them hearing it from somewhere,” Tip says. “Who else you gonna have come speak to them that they’re gonna listen to and who they’re gonna take their words for face value more than me? And does it matter who is giving them the message or that they are getting the message?”
Tip feels like in the end, it’s the kids that will suffer if parents don’t let them get the right message from people who have been through difficult situations.
“I think it’s really the children that are getting the short end of the stick,” T.I. explains. “I think the children are really the ones….they are not benefiting from the possible outcome that it could bring.”
