In the November 2007 issue of Complex, T.I. appears in various "home for the holidays"-themed photos, including some that show him holding firearms while cooking a turkey.

Tip also has some interesting things to say that one can't help but apply to his current legal situation:

You’re the only rapper to drop platinum albums the last two years. How can you say you don’t fit in? When I saw Tupac talking that “Thug Life” shit, getting locked up for shooting police, and getting shot and living, that’s when I was like, Damn, them niggas is really about that shit. Now you’re just let down. This ain’t this guy that he was on this record. And nobody seems to have a problem with it. It’s a lot of fake shit in it. I like to consider myself an intelligent person, and this shit is not something of intelligence anymore. It’s getting real young and stupid, and that ain’t me.

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