King Harris is a young man determined to graduate from the school of hard knocks despite coming from a well-to-do suburban environment; therefore, T.I. is showing his kid grace.
Regarding the kind of life he envisions for his children, T.I. never intended for his kids to have to deal with the rising hip-hop artist’s image of being from the streets.
Mostly because of the “treachery, the betrayal,” and “the deceit” he overcame to escape the confines of poverty and crime in his Bankhead neighbourhood.
During an interview on “The Breakfast Club”, the rapper recognized in his younger self are also evident in the persona that his King displays to the outside world.
“I do see some of the tenacity in King that I had. Do you understand what I mean? No matter what kind of soil, some of them have to survive. Like, he really pushed like he came out of the welfare line,” he remarked.
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He noted that although King and his siblings wouldn’t have preferred their difficult upbringing, they will all gain from the lessons encountered along the way.
“I really want that for them,” T.I. clarified. I do not wish to witness it in person. Do you understand what I mean? I don’t think—you know, seeing it will shatter my heart. However, I would if I could sleep for two or three years at a time and then wake up to their greetings of “Man, we’re glad you up”.
“We have to motherf—ker struggle! Got no d—n! We were’t eaten. That kind of s—t, you can’t teach that. That kind of tenacity, that kind of die-hard, you know, just resiliency, can’t teach that s—t.”
When the father and son got into a public altercation at an NFL game last year.
Spectators got to see firsthand that T.I. and his son King might not always agree about the young man’s growing pains.
The rapper, his wife Tiny, and his son King were embroiled in a heated argument over his parents’ refusal to accept his account of growing up on the streets.
The statement seemed to conclude with the 19-year-old being taken on by his father. The incident sent social media into overdrive for days.
