Intro
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Plenty of hip-hop artists rap about living the thug life, but not many of them actually do hard time. The rapper T.I. has more [def 14774]street credit[/def] than most. In 2007, he was arrested for possessing illegal weapons. And less than a year after getting out of jail for that arrest, he was arrested again, this time on drug charges.
But even T.I. has a softer side. Earlier this year, he helped save a suicidal man. The man was standing on the top of a building planning to jump off, and T.I. talked him into coming down. Find out what Ella and Mason think of the hero, convict, and rapper T.I.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Ella: He’s going back to jail!
Mason: Who? What now?
Ella: T.I. is going back to jail, and he just got out. And he saved someone’s life. What’s happening? Why can’t they just go easy on him?
Mason: Wait. Back that train up.
Ella: OK.
Mason: T.I. saved someone’s life?
Ella: Yeah.
Mason: What’s that about?
Ella: So, he heard on the radio there was a guy standing on a building ready to jump. So he showed up to the site. The police wouldn’t let him go to the top, but they recorded a phone message of him saying, “Hey, there’s still hope, don’t jump.” To prove that it was him they showed the video phone to the guy.
Mason: Did he rap it?
Ella: He didn’t rap it, though.
Mason: But he’s like, “Hey man, I’m T.I., don’t kill yourself.”
Ella: Yeah, basically. And the guy was shown the video and he came down.
Mason: Well what if he would’ve been a not-T.I. fan?
Ella: I know, it wouldn’t have worked.
Mason: Well, that’s interesting. Do you think he was trying to win favor from the judge, or…
Ella: Well, this happened earlier in the week, and then his court date was on Friday. So everyone speculates so, but in my heart I feel like T.I.’s just a good guy.
Mason: A good guy. Now why did he go to jail?
Ella: Machine guns.
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Discussion
Ella is upset that T.I. is headed back to jail once again. She thinks that he’s not only a great rapper, he’s also a good guy. She explains to Mason how he recently stopped someone from committing suicide. Police recorded a video of him pleading with the suicidal man not to jump off of a tall building. In the end, the man didn’t jump.
That makes T.I. seem like a hero. But Mason wonders if he was just trying to win favor with the judge. Others also suspect that T.I. may have just been trying to avoid jail by showing what a good citizen he can be. Unfortunately for him, it didn’t work. But maybe he can still get time off for good behavior.
Do you think T.I. deserves to go to jail? Have you ever done anything heroic?
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