With just a few more weeks left on his prison sentence, rap superstar T.I. is ready to start giving fans new music. The emcee spoke with MTV News on Monday and revealed that his next album will be hitting stores on August 24th. The first track off the record, “I’m Back,” is now available online, and Tip says the cut discusses a few things that needed to be made public. He explains, quote, “It’s a lot of things that needed to be spoken on. In my absence, it was a lot of things that went down, a lot of matters needed to be addressed. This was the greatest platform for me to do it.” T.I. – who will be released on March 26th – says fans can expect him to return to the public eye by the middle of April or beginning of May. The emcee goes on to say that it will take more than a prison sentence to hold him down, adding quote, “As long as there is air in my esophagus, champ, I’mma keep going.”
T.I. began serving a 366-day sentence for federal weapons charges last May. This past December, he was moved from an Arkansas federal prison to a halfway house in Atlanta. T.I. made his first public appearance since heading behind bars last month when he joined his fiancée, Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, at her Alzheimer’s research fundraiser “For The Love of Our Fathers.”
