TIP has addressed his relationship with protege Iggy Azalea.
“That’s still my partner,” the Atlanta rapper says during an interview with the Associated Press that was published today (September 18). “Her life has taken her in a different direction. My life is still as it was before. But Iggy is doing what she feels makes Iggy happy. That’s what she should do. We’re focused on making the next Iggy record and dodge the same adversities we faced last time.”
T.I.’s comments arrive on the heels of his interview on Hot 97’s “Ebro In The Morning” earlier this week. During the interview he said that he’s still working with Iggy Azalea, though the relationship had changed.
“It took a bit of a rest stop,” TIP said at the time.
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Iggy Azalea tweeted about T.I. yesterday (September 17). “I am still signed to @tip and do business with him,” she wrote. “The first ive heard of us having an “issue” is via a radio interview.”
TIP says in the AP interview that he was just giving Iggy Azalea some space.
“It’s definitely not a ‘sever my ties, walk away, I’m upset’ thing,” TIP says. “It was more like, ‘OK. You have a lot on your plate right now. I’m going to pull back or wait until you come to a place where you’re ready to come back to the table so we can start again and make history some more.”
As for his Da Nic EP, which was released September 11, TIP says it a good time to return to his musical roots.
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“It’s refreshing to be back on the grind,” he says, “like ‘nose to the grindstone’ and being back in the trenches.”
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