TI and son get into an argument during an NFL game livestream
T.I. and his wife, Tameka “Little” Harrisgot into a heated altercation with their son King during an NFL game.
While attending an Atlanta Falcons game on Sunday, November 26, King, 19, live-streamed a conversation with his parents from their suite at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta via InstagramLive. During the tense conversation, King claimed he faced hardship growing up, but his parents disagreed.
When TI, 43, asked his son if he had “ever woken up with a cockroach on [his] face,” King replied that he had not. Yet King maintained that he did not grow up with a “silver spoon” in his mouth, despite his father’s wealth and fame.
“I’ve never eaten that in my life,” King said.
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King went on to say that he often went to his grandmother’s house because he didn’t want to be “in these gates” of his parents’ house, but instead longed to be “out in the neighborhood.”
Tiny, 48, then joined the livestream and claimed that the reason King went to his grandmother’s house was because he could “suck on a pacifier there until he was 12 years old.” King, however, had a different perspective on the situation.
T.I. and Clifford “King” Joseph Harris.
Carol Lee Rose/Getty Images“They tried to say I was there sucking a paci[fier]”But they’re not going to tell you everything,” King claimed. “They’re trying to hide it.”
When the situation escalated, King stated that his parents were “lying.” Tiny then told her son to “shut up.”
When King asked why his mother “let someone play me like that,” she replied that he was “joking.”
“You’re embarrassing yourself,” TI (real name Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) could be heard saying in the background. The camera then began moving, indicating TI was attempting to physically restrain King, who then shouted, “Get off me.”
“Boy, you can’t do anything with me,” King said as the video came to an end. “Can’t you do anything with me?”
In a series of since-deleted Instagram Stories, King said: “I’m standing. BUSINESS DON’T GIVE AWAY WHO YOU ARE … IDGAF WHO YOU ARE … IDGAF WHO YOU ARE MF CAN PLAY WITH ME N MY FACE DON’T GO IN FRONT OF DA, I’M A GROWN ASS MAN NOW … If I’m wrong, stop saying it to make the world think you love me when you don’t. ”
The father-son duo was formed earlier this month discussed the possibility of King playing TI in a biopic during a panel at ComplexCon 2023. (In addition to King, the rapper and Tiny also share son Major Philant and daughter Heiress and co-parent four other children from previous partners. The couple married in 2010.)
“I mean, I can tell because they say I act just like him,” King said. “They say I’m just a little paler than him.”
TI, meanwhile, said his son “can do anything he puts his mind to,” adding: “He just has to overcome his own limitations of himself. I think he can do anything he sets his mind to if he wants to.”