LMFAO! T.I. BLAMES HIS DRUG HABIT ON HIS DENTIST!

Right before going back to his home away from home in Arkansas, ‘The Incarcerated,’ better known as T.I. was on a mission to prove that not only was he a flawed saint, but that his flaws were beyond his control.
Nowhere did he make that point louder than in his cover feature interview for Vibe Magazine’s December/January issue.

On the drug habit he only discovered on the day of his probation revocation trial.

I had a lot of work done to my teeth. Oral surgery, extractions, six, seven, eight root canals. Between January to February. As soon as I got out, I had a lot of stuff done. In the joint, you eat shit that is unhealthy for you. I had fillings that fell out and stuff that had to get dealt with. Of course for the pain they gave me oxycontin and hydrocodone. And, mind you, on October 13, 2007, I had cut off everything―weed, alcohol. Then I get these pills and I start taking them for the pain at first. And then I’m like, Wait―this shit makes me feel good. And it’s legal. After the pain went away, I kept taking it. I had like five, six prescriptions. So I had, like 80 pills. Everybody else might have a drink or smoke a blunt, I took a pain pill. Times when I had 18-, 20-hour days, I’d take a pain pill. And eventually I developed―I guess―the beginning stages of dependence.

On why he’s still a role model for the hood:

Let me just say this: [he sits up on the couch] If you look at a guy who came up, no pops in the house, moms on welfare, food stamps; started selling dope when he was 12, 13 years old, came up handling guns, being in shoot-outs; started going to jail when he was 15. In all of this chaos and this mischief and lawlessness, the person who was just in jail for machine guns and silencers turns his life around. And now you want to crucify him ―for what? Three pills. I mean, of course it’s wrong and unacceptable and inexcusable. No problem. But in the grand scheme of things, it’s rather petty. It’s rather petty to hold someone’s feet to the fire for something so small when they have overcame things that were so big. All that could have been going wrong―if I was riding with more guns, or if I had gotten into a shoot-out and killed somebody, then I could see that. But just think about it. I’ve gotten it down to this much.

SMH, someone tell this dude to just do his time and be quiet. Please. I'm sorry! I don't have any compassion for ni**as that have the world at their feet & f**k it all up! Do you know many dudes are starving in the hood & would love to have the opportunities T.I. has? South ni**as might be mad @ me for talking greasy about their king but it's the f**king truth!