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T.I. is a famous rapper that made “Dead
and Gone.” T.I. got arrested for a gun battle
and his friend Philant Johnson died in the
gun battle. I think if I was him I would
never forgive myself. T.I. did community
service for 1,000 hours. For all the machine
guns and silencers he had the fine
is $100,300.00 and he has to go to prison
in late May. I think what he did was bad
because kids follow in his footsteps. T.I. had
previous charges in his life dealing with drugs, assault, and other charges. “Dead
and Gone,” the song, was based on his friend
Philant. He died outside the night club. Philant
was part of T.I.’s crew.
T.I.’s Road To Redemption is a TV show about
trying to help people that are going in his path to
prison. T.I. saved 15 people in his show but one
got shot. The person that got shot forgot what T.I.
told him and sold drugs and got shot. He was supposed
to meet T.I.
Guns T.I. had when he was arrested.
22 FIVEY 2009
The Story Of T.I.
~
By Dante Quinones
in the inauguration
of Obama. He was
really close to T.I. I think that kid that got shot paid
his price and learned his lesson for not listening to
T.I. when he told him stay away from the street. I
feel that T.I. is a good person but not that good because
he’s going to jail and it was his fault his friend
died on him.
Left: T.I. Center: Hosea Thomas, the man who
killed Philant Johnson. Right: Philant.