Rapper T.I. speaks onstage during Get Out To Vote Concert & Rally at Center Stage on November 28, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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T.I. Claims He's Never Been 'Dusted on a Record' While Naming JAY-Z, Nas, and Kanye West

T.I. Claims He's Never Been 'Dusted on a Record' While Naming JAY-Z, Nas, and Kanye West

Published Mon, January 17, 2022 at 4:00 PM EST

T.I. is demanding his flowers from his peers and hip-hop fans after taking to his Instagram story claiming that “nobody can fuck with me” when it comes to rapping, including JAY-Z, Kanye West, and Lil Wayne. 

While he has been out of the spotlight for some time, T.I. proclaims he can still get busy behind the mic and out rap some of his most prolific contemporaries. 

“Muthafuckas can’t fuck with me in no way, shape, form, or fashion when it comes to doing no music, man,” he began. “I got a lot of other shit going on, so I don’t do music on no consistent basis. I don’t depend on that shit to feed me, you hear me? But when you’re talking ’bout doing music, when you’re talking ’bout cutting records, you talking ’bout putting shit out, talking ’bout making shit that’s better than anything out there, man, ain’t nobody fucking with me. Nobody fucking with me, bruh.”

“Now, you might like somebody else better. It might be somebody else, you know, ‘I like this better than I like T.I.’ Okay, fine, ’cause you like them better. That’s cool, that’s your preference. But n-gga, when it comes to putting shit out, ain’t nobody fucking with me, man.”

T.I. went on to claim nobody has out-rapped him on a song and that people don’t want to collaborate with him because of it.

“I just feel like sometimes muthafuckas get shit twisted and tangled – don’t do that,” he said. “I ain’t that, n-gga. I don’t give a fuck about your personal opinion, about how you feel about me, about what you think. When it comes to getting behind that muthafucking mic, n-gga, putting some shit to music, ain’t nobody fucking with me, n-gga. None of ’em. None of ’em.”

T.I. went on to name drop JAY-Z, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Nas, and Pusha-T as top contenders in the game while asserting he could still out rap all of them to this day. 

“Jay and Nas, you need to bring them, bring them, n-gga,” he said. “They who you need. Jay, Nas, Wayne, Ye… n-gga, they who you need. Bring them. Pusha T. Yeah, all them. They who you need. Keep trying to goddamn throw my name in the circle, in the mix… ain’t nobody fucking me, n-gga. Keep playing, n-gga, I’ma keep dropping shit, I’ma keep showing you, n-gga.”

T.I. challenged 50 Cent to a Verzuz battle in September 2021, but 50 told him to “respectfully stay away” from him. In June 2021, T.I. announced his next album Kill the King would be his final album.

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