YOU announced his retirement from live performances, but not before putting on one last show before ending his illustrious hip-hop career.
In an interview with Atlanta’s 96.1 The Beat and hosts Ferrari Simmons and BT, the Dead And Gone star revealed that his upcoming show at the station’s upcoming Jingle Ball festival will be his final farewell.
The rapper will headline the December 19 show in Atlanta with Sexyy Red, T-Pain, Saweetie, The Kid Laroi, Khalid and Tinashe.
“I thank you all for giving me my last work gig because I don’t need the money anymore and I won’t be performing,” the About The Money star, 44, said when sitting down with Young Dro, as reported Billboard.
“I don’t want to do it anymore,” he said of the radio station’s Christmas concert. “I no longer want people to pay me to jump and sweat for entertainment.”
Rapper TI revealed his desire to retire from acting after one last show over the holidays during an interview on radio station 1388462.
Youg Dro (born D’Juan Montrel Hart), then joked that he would accept the shows that TI (born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) rejects.
‘I’ll pick up all of Tip’s shows that he’s not going to watch. Doing them all,” the 44-year-old rapper, who is signed to TI’s Grand Hustle Records, said as everyone laughed.
Ferrari then asked him if he was going to “do” something for another upcoming show, to which Tip replied, “Of course, I’m going to answer the phone to tell them I won’t be performing.”
Tip went on to reveal that as he prepares to retire, he will actually return to acting, but ultimately it will only be on his terms.
As of now, TI’s last concert will be on December 19 at 93.1 The Beat’s Jingle Ball show in Atlanta, which will also feature artists such as Tinashe, Sexyy Red, T-Pain, Saweetie, Khalid and The Kid LAROI.
Last year he said he would hang up the microphone for good following the release of his twelfth and final double album, which is still pending.
It’s time to evolve beyond my career as a rapper,” he said in the Podcast Us in Miami in 2023. ‘It will be a double album, so there will be Kill The King and Kiss The King.’
The revelation about the rapper comes on the heels of him and his wife Tiny winning a $71 million lawsuit after claiming toy maker MGA stole the design for a line of “OMG” toy dolls from their pop group. real life teen OMG Girlz.
“I thank you all for giving me my last working gig because I don’t need the money anymore and I won’t be performing,” the About The Money star said as he sat next to Young Dro. “I no longer want people to pay me to jump and sweat for entertainment”
The now defunct pop group was created by Tiny and featured his daughter Zonnique ‘Star’ Pullins.
So far, there has been no official word on whether the victory in the lawsuit influenced the decision to retire from acting.
Harris is considered one of the pioneers of the hip hop subgenre, trap music, along with fellow Georgia rappers Jeezy and Gucci Mane.
The three-time Grammy winner is set to retire from performing after his Christmas show at Atlanta’s 96.1 The Beat’s Jingle Ball festival on December 19.
After signing a record deal with LaFace Records, an imprint of Arista Records in 1999, the rapper released his debut studio album, I’m Serious (2001), but it received a lukewarm reception from fans and critics alike. .
Undaunted, the Atlanta, Georgia native moved to Atlantic Records, where he soon hit his breakthrough with his second release, Trap Muzik (2003), which peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart and spawned the Billboard Hot 100. -Top 40 singles Rubber Band Man and Let’s Get Away with Jazze Pha.
In total, TI has released 12 solo studio albums since 2001, along with two collaborative albums with P$C and Bankroll Mafia.
According Sony Music GermanyTI sold over 14,000,000 albums worldwide during his career.
