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Janet and T.I. Concert News
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Part-time Atlantan Janet Jackson (top picture) has announced that she will tour for the first time in seven years, starting in September, with tickets going on sale June 7. (Read more here)
And this morning, Hot-107.9’s “A-Team” revealed that Atlanta rapper-actor T.I. (pictured below) will be a part of its annual “Birthday Bash” June 14 at Philips Arena.
It is believed to be T.I.’s first concert performance since his arrest on gun charges last October, hours before he was to take the Atlanta Civic Center stage as the top nominee at the BET Hip-Hop Awards.
(The Grammy winner has since pled guilty to those charges, in an agreement that requires at least 1,000 hours of community service followed by a sentence of one year and one day in prison).
As Jackson’s latest CD, “Discipline”, seems to have faded from the charts - and the radio dial — do you think a tour will be the spark she needs professionally? Planning to go? And what about T.I. — considering his recent troubles, and community service efforts, will it be appropriate for him to rap things such as “it’s hard to yell with the barrel in your mouth” (“Bring Em Out”)? Or contradictory?
Comments
By Siona
May 20, 2008 10:24 AM | Link to this
Go Janet!….She doesn’t need a spark cause she’s HOT and ON FIRE!…as for T.I., he’s The KING! Need I say more?
By Tom
May 29, 2008 5:29 PM | Link to this
Um…Yeah Siona, you do need to say more. You SHOULD have ended by saying that T.I. is a career criminal that puts (very few) songs on the radio for our youth to hear and mimic, thinking it’s the “cool” thing to do. You probably should have added that the only press that Janet Jackson has received in the past ten years was a publicity stunt. There’s a reason for that. Enjoy the concert, I’m sure it will be GREAT.