Sunday night, 27-year old rapper T.I. was onstage at the Philips Arena in Atlanta, performing for 16,000 fans at an event dubbed “T.I.’s Goodbye Bash.”
Sometime before noon today, T.I. will shed the sunglasses and the designer wear, and, as plain ol’ Clifford Harris Jr., check into the low-security Federal Correction Institution in Forrest City, Arkansas.
The journey from headlining rap star, actor (ATL, American Gangster) and one-time Justin Timberlake collaborator to jail has been documented in T.I.’s Road To Redemption, a reality show which began airing on MTV in February.
Let’s review just how that rocky road led from a spot on Forbes magazine’s roster of the world’s richest rappers to the federal pen:
