Why I Retired From Rap At 45 – T.I

Popular rapper T.I has shared the reason why he is retiring from rap. He recently had his say while speaking to PEOPLE, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, even if he has been living a retired life since the coronavirus pandemic, he needed to officially tell his fans that he stopped rapping.

Stressing that he felt like he owed the world one last offering, the lyricist added that he took the bold step after consulting with predecessors he respects.

His words, “So I had been living a retired life for some time, probably since the pandemic. I just kind of got used to being home and being around, and I just didn’t want to do so much, for lack of better words, work.

I don’t think that I could just disappear all of a sudden and nobody know why I’ve never put nothing out [again]. So I think that to have a project and say, ‘Hey man, this is it. Thank you for all the love and support.’ I’ll catch y’all on the flip side.

I consulted with many of my respected predecessors when I decided I would present myself to the world as the King of the South. I asked them all how they felt about it and asked them for their blessings and they all gave it. But Big Boi gave me another piece of game that I didn’t really understand until later.

Big Boi said, ‘just understand you going to put a bullseye on your back. You going to put a bullseye on your back and ain’t nobody going to be looking to do no favors for you’. He said, ‘Chess is a game of life. The game of the game in chess is to kill the king.’ And at that moment, I knew that that would be the title of my last album.”