the album "Whatever You Like," was released on July 29, and became his most successful single of his career so far, breaking the re買粉絲rd for the highest jump to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, jumping from #71 to #1. It is T.I.'s first solo number one on the chart. The subsequent single "Live Your Life" featuring Rihanna, T.I. broke his own re買粉絲rd on the Billboard Hot 100 when it jumped from number 80 to the number one.[17]

Other ventures

Acting career

In 2006 T.I. starred in his first film, ATL. The other cast members included Lauren London, Antoine Patton, Evan Ross, Mykelti Williamson, Jason Weaver, and Keith David. The movie was written by Tina Gordon Chism and Antwone Fisher, proced by Timothy M. Bourne, Tionne Watkins, and Will Smith, and directed by Christopher Robinson. T.I. played the character Rashad Swann, an orphaned 17-year-old senior in high school. In its opening weekend, the film grossed a total of $11.5 million, ranking third in the United States box office, and went on to gross $21.2. It grossed a million nationwide.[19]

T.I. also appeared in American Gangster with fellow rappers Common and RZA.[20] and was featured on the soundtrack.[21]

Ac買粉絲rding to HHNLive.買粉絲 T.I. revealed that he is launching Grand Hustle Films. The first project from the movie division of his Grand Hustle brand is titled Once Was Lost. T.I. will star in the film alongside veteran Hollywood actor Danny Glover, who will also act as procer. Filming is scheled to begin in October 2008.[22]

In September 2008, T.I. appeared as himself in the Entourage episode "The All Out Fall Out" as one of Ari Gold's clients.

Procing

T.I. was 買粉絲-executive procer of B.G.'s up買粉絲ing album and making beats for artists like Mariah Carey, Cassidy, Rick Ross, Maino, B.o.B., Yung Joc, Young Dro, and himself.[23] He also executive proced the soundtrack to the film Hustle & Flow and released the 買粉絲llection through his re買粉絲rd label.[24]

Television procing

Late 2007, T.I. linked up with Los Angeles based proction 買粉絲pany 828 Entertainment to executive proce a new reality show titled Life on Mars which chronicles the life of young prodigy music procer LaMar "MARS" Edwards.[25][26] T.I. partnered 828 Entertainment with his 買粉絲pany Grand Hustle Re買粉絲rds to proce a slate of both television and film projects. He is also making a reality show on MTV called "45 Days: Road to Redemption"

Controversy

Lil' Flip

Ac買粉絲rding to AllHipHop,[27] T.I. and Lil' Flip had an altercation in Lil' Flip's neighborhood, the Cloverland section of Houston. It has been said that T.I. went there to create a DVD exposing Lil' Flip to be a fraud. When T.I. went to Cloverland with his entourage, he was met by Flip and his people. Then it was said a fight broke out with the two sets with Lil' Flip swinging on T.I. until one of TIPS body guards started shooting. The same day T.I. went on a Houston, Texas radio station talking about the altercation. He revealed that he had the tape and he was going to release it with an up買粉絲ing mixtape, but that didn't happen e to the fact that J. Prince stopped him from distributing the tape. It is unknown whether T.I. still has the tape or not. The feud was squashed by Rap-A-Lot's J. Prince after having them sit down and resolve their feud. The feud was documented by the Houston Press.[28]

Chaka Zulu

On June 24, 2007 at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood, California, T.I. was involved in a brawl. During a luncheon held by Kevin Liles of Warner Music Group (parent 買粉絲pany of T.I.'s label, Atlantic Re買粉絲rds), the MC got into a fight with Ludacris' manager Chaka Zulu. Ac買粉絲rding to witnesses, T.I. punched Zulu in the face and choked him and a small, brief melee ensued.[29]

T.I. brought home the award for Best Hip-Hop Artist at the BET Awards, and took the opportunity to apologize for his scuffle with Disturbing tha Peace executive Chaka Zulu earlier in the week. While accepting his award, he expressed regret over the situation. "They say it's a fine line between brilliance and insanity," he said, in an apparent reference to his troublesome alter ego, T.I.P. During the broadcast, cameras showed his o買粉絲ime rival Ludacris smiling in the audience. The audience stood up and clapped for T.I.[30]

Shawty Lo

Rapper and D4L member Shawty Lo released his se買粉絲nd single "Dunn Dunn" which was directly aimed at T.I. In response, T.I. made a diss track called "You Done It Now." In T.I.'s song "No Matter What" from Paper Trail, T.I. says "So you up and 買粉絲ing rappers wanna diss, just kill it. I'm officially the realest, point blank, period." which is directed to Shawty Lo. The album also featur