AllHipHop.com: Speaking of getting reduced sentences, T.I. caught some crazy gun charges last year and was facing heavy time. His sentence got reduced to a year and some community services and the whispers commenced.
Blue DaVinci: With a criminal history at that. First of all people don't understand, the government got the control. I don't believe T.I. told s**t because I know how these people work. T.I. sold a couple of million records. They look at it as this; they can use T.I. as an advocate to speak to these kids that's coming up.
These kids are looking up to T.I., it would be more beneficial and would save the economy more money to have T.I. tell all these kids leave the guns alone than locking that one man up and spending thirty two thousand a year housing him. Feel me?
AllHipHop.com: I ask because T.I. just started doing some public service announcements about helping to solve crimes and some individuals, like Mysonne, feel that's helping the police.
Bleu DaVinci: I just consider it that's what he has to do. See, when you sign these plea deals and s**t like that, they making him do that. It's not like he woke up one day and called the police like, "Yo I want to do a video for ya'll." Nah, they making that man do that s**t. It's either that or we going to redo your plea deal.
He has to do a lot of hours of community service, he didn't jump up and say he wanted to do that either. But to not go do fifteen years and throw his career away and take all this good music away from all the loyal fans that love him, he has to do certain s**t. I don't look at that as T.I. f***ing up. He ain't talking to the thugs and the gangsters, he's talking to the kids and the civilians. I don't want people to be getting shot, I want our people to go to school and do well and become doctors.
