Eminem Supported T.I. in his Addiction.
In an interview with Billboard, T.I. talked about his relationship with Eminem and the way Detroit Rapper always supports him and sticks by T.I.’s side. T.I. also speaks about his love for what Eminem is doing with Slaughterhouse and his label signing of Yelawolf.
T.I. turned to prescription medications — oxycontin and hydrocodone — to treat the pain he was experiencing as a result of a slew of oral surgeries after being released from his first jail sentence for federal firearm charges on March 26, 2010. Unfortunately, what began as a form of medical assistance quickly became an addiction.
“I haven’t had a chance to speak to Em since I’ve been home,” T.I. said. “I heard that while I was down, he was trying to get in contact with me, but I don’t know if the dots just didn’t connect. [Eminem] overcoming his own adversities, winning the battle against his own demons, and continuing to break the mold and re-set the standard of what it means to be the most successful hip-hop artist in the game, I salute that to no end.”
“I love what he’s doing with Slaughterhouse. I love the move that he made to sign Yelawolf. And the record with him and Royce da 5′9″, that record is going h.a.m. He killed that BET Hip-Hop Awards cypher. I’ve been peeping the move[ment].”
Now that he’s clean, sober, and living a positive life, T.I. offers advice to individuals who are suffering from drugs or finding it tough to stay out of trouble.
“It starts with you on the inside,” he said. “I can give all the advice in the world, but at the end of the day, you just got to make that decision internally with yourself. You have to see that you are ready to make a change. Until that moment comes, all advice in the world is going to be in vain cause I’m going to be talking to a brick wall.”
“Everybody can tell you what you need to do, how to do it when you need to do it, how bad you need to do it,” T.I. continued. “But until you get that right ass whipping, as they say, and until you have hit rock bottom or have seen something in yourself that is so out of character and it displeases you so much that you just have no choice but to change it … then you ain’t going to see it.”
