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MTV has always given artists a platform to get their stories and music out to their fans and this series reveals the unknown side of T.I.-one of the world's greatest artists at the most precarious time in his life.

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T.I.
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: September 25
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Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.
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Clifford Harris Jr.
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I know what it's like to not know where you're going or how to get there. I know what it's like to have no one around you who can teach you how to be what you hope to become.
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We are the benefactors of too much sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears to allow petty differences and trivial discrepancies to continue to separate and divide US, while we are being used, exploited and conquered.
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You are not defined by your environment unless you allow yourself to be.
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It has to be understood that the world doesn't exist with people who are exactly like us.
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I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.
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If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.
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All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.
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I give the niggaz what they came to see, a reflection of one self where they aim to be.
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I can't really see myself as an artist.
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God will take you through hell, just to get you to heaven.
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Brain so good could've sworn you went to college
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I could see myself in the fur coats, turtleneck sweaters, with the Kangol hats like Slick Rick and Dana Dane. But I could also see myself in a leather Troop suit like LL Cool J.
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It's only five rappers out of Atlanta who bussin and I'm one of 'em the other four you know who you are but if you gotta think twice (well) shawty ya ain't nice regardless of ya publishin' deal ya can't write
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We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.
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Let the losers worry about losin.
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Fear aint in the heart of me, i learned just do it, you get courage from your fears right after you go through it.
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My fist so rocky and and wrist so icy, Might be, thrown off my rocker just slightly, Feisty, claimin' hot temper don't ignite me, I'm only gonna ask ya find the exit once politely
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We cannot continue to get caught up in having material abundance and yet be fundamentally and spiritually broke.
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I know what it's like to feel hopeless and to feel like you're not good enough just because of where you're from. I know what it's like to be profiled and to be abused by the police. I know what it's like to be racially profiled, treated unjustly and abused by the police just because of how you look.
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We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.
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