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Katie's In Love

Posted by: Katie Rost 1/21/2009 | 1,686 Views

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I fell in love with T.I. the other night.
(Don’t worry Tiny; it’s not like that)

The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network gave him an award for helping get out the vote this past campaign cycle. He could have given so many different kinds of acceptance speeches…
He could have said “thank you” and genuinely meant it. He could have said “thank you” and noted people in the room who helped him with his efforts.
He could have given lip service to “giving back” and had everyone clapping pleasantly in acknowledgement of his selflessness (common award etiquette).

He didn’t do any of that.
Let me tell you what he did instead….
T.I. said “thank you” and he made every single person in the room feel it and journey through his understanding of the work that creation (God, Allah, The Universe, The Flow… pick your poison) intends through his life.

Life is cyclical and God is perfect.
As T.I. was speaking about that perfection and brutally recounting the pains of the past year he started to radiate with beauty.

He said: "I want to thank God for somehow … I know he perfect. So I'mma thank him for everything. I'mma thank him for making me drop out of school. I'mma thank him for making me run the streets. I'mma thank him for making me sell crack. I'mma thank him for making me have shoot-outs. I'mma thank him for allowing me to watch my partners die in my arms, So I'd be fearful enough for my life and paranoid enough to go out and cop machine guns and silencers so I catch a fed case and I have to put up $3 million for my bond so I have to spend seven months of my life in my house, so I have to spend a year of my life in prison just so I be validated enough to get out there and touch the youth because they know that I done been through it, and if I say it, it means something. You know what I'm saying?"

Yeah, Katie Rost sure knows what you’re saying.
I believe losing your focus is part of maintaining your focus. The magic and the beauty come when you’ve lost your focus and you not only move in a different direction but you also thank god for refining your crazy ass and using you for something infinite.

Just knowing that makes the burden of the pain easier. That truth is infinity freeing you from the emptiness you had before.
Emptiness is unconsciousness. Recognizing unconsciousness is consciousness.

Many people are riding the wave, but don’t know they’re in the ocean. Perhaps they are fighting against the movement that creation (God) intends and they therefore exist trapped in confusion, in anxiety, in struggle and in pain.
Many people are riding the wave, dipping their hand down into the water-- in awe of the force of it. These people are operating their lives with respect for the intention of creation and are allowing it to happen and assist it in creating.
There is always a refining going on.

It’s ok to lose focus but we’re all proud of you T.I. for finding yours and helping others find theirs.

- Katie Rost

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I commend T.I. for stepping up to the challenge when it was not popular. I honestly, believe he has good intentions to do what is right.

1/23/2009 | reply
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Katie: Thank you for writing it down the way you wrote it down... T.I.: Now THAT is how you stand up there when you're up there! :-)

Racha Fajjari 1/23/2009 | reply
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any man that can except his struggle as his teacher as TI has is a hero in my book. I for one am ready to go to bat to keep him out of jail. So that he can help me help young people.

1/22/2009 | reply
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- I always tell young folks that "the hardest transition you make in life is going from being a student of it to a teacher"
  
  1/22/2009 | reply
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- let me leave my computer on a loving note
  
  "sho be do bop, suga bop, sho be do wop
  
  i wanna share a treasure oh so rare"
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KAJe7HNN44
  
  1/22/2009 | reply
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wow, he must be like Ghandi, or Obama. im glad you guys were all so moved by his "deep" and profound words! are you sure it wasn't to do with the open bar at the GANSEVORT? =p??

im not hating.. just surprised someone could be "better for" hearing TI lament about his struggle.

1/22/2009 | reply
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- wow, well its certainly clear that T.I. didn't touch you on a "deep" level, but I really appreciate your points. I'm not sure someone has to be Obama or Ghandi to resonate with the humanity, pain and struggle in us all. I think the street poet, which T.I. most definitely is, can tap into that as well. Clearly messages must come from more important people for you to feel them. Nawwww, that's not "hate" at all coming from you my friend....
  
  Katie Rost 1/22/2009 | reply
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- also, i wanted to point out that we (the 3000 people I polled in the audience) weren't moved by his "lamenting over his struggles", but by his giving glory to God and coming to a deeper awareness of his purpose. I think that's in essence what you don't "agree" with or believe even exists. Which is a difference of perspective. I love T.I. for giving credit to God and exploring that. If you don't believe in God, it would be difficult to feel that connection because its not logical to you. I would assume it also offends you. Which I totally understand.
  
  Katie Rost 1/22/2009 | reply
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some people just don't lose focus though. everyone's subjectivity is so isolated to their own world. it's just whatever. everything doesnt happen for a reason, and people SHOULD find inspiration, comraderie or empathy with others in this world and if they don't. well they need treatment. there are 6 billion people in the world and we are all the same

1/21/2009 | reply
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- we all need treatment Touie, but the reflection outside of yourself-- or your concept of self-- that offends you or challenges you... belongs to you. You can't say we are one and then not take responsibility for all of it. The ego is subjective and has its own world.... the spirit is one force that is everything and everyone. We can't judge people who don't know that spirit exists. I was speaking to and for people who do.
  
  Katie Rost 1/21/2009 | reply
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- im saying we are all the same. not all one. when other people have an epiphany on stage and people witness it . good for them. but there is nothing more going on then a man on stage with a microphone sharing an anecdote (giving) and people in the audience paying attention (giving) it's really that simple. people love to project onto people and live vicariously through them. (you said he made everyohne feel something.. did you survey everyone in the place? all 3000 of them?) TIs "journey" to being "successful" with kitche pop music doesn't interest me at all. in fact, he sounds pretty ignorant if he thinks he needed to do time to reach the youth. glad he came out alright but there is nothing new profound or even creative in anything he said (in your transcript) nor in his music.
  
  I want to applaud the people who faced the same circumstances that he faced and made a decision not to sell crack, not to go to jail. to bad they dont have a voice but if they did I doubt they would be as cheesy as TI
  
  the hustler to pop star narrative is as tired as the music those protagonists put out.
  
  i guess im just an A$$hole
  
  1/22/2009 | reply
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- And yes... i did in fact poll everybody... I ALWAYS make sure all statements I make are 100% factual.
  
  Katie Rost 1/22/2009 | reply
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- ooops. i mis-read anyways, i thought it was at his new year thingy.(that i couldnt get into haha im bitter) oh well. i know he donates and such- so it's good he's getting recognition for the stuff he does with boys club etc. im out
  
  1/22/2009 | reply
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Katie's description eloquently captures TI's inspirational moment. I was there too. Like Katie says, TI opened up his world, brought us in, and we are better for it.

skywind 1/21/2009 | reply
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I was there and I heard what he said....but you understood what he was saying....LIve your life TI and then live your life. Deep.

magnolia 1/21/2009 | reply
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