Huge US rapper announces he’s retiring at 44 saying ‘I don’t need the money’  – but will play one final show

A HUGE US rapper has announced that he’s retiring from performing astatine the property of 44, and said “I don’t request the money.”

Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., otherwise known arsenic his signifier name, T.I., is an American rapper from Atlanta.

The 44-year-old creator archetypal came to airy erstwhile helium was selling mixtapes with his rapper person known arsenic Big Kuntry King.

But present he’s readying to enactment down the mic, aft helium does 1 last show.  

In an interrogation with Atlanta's 96.1 The Beat, helium told hosts Ferrari Simmons and BT that his swansong volition beryllium astatine the station's upcoming Jingle Ball festival successful Atlanta.

T.I. volition headline, and articulation the likes of Khalid, Tinashe, T-Pain and The Kid Laroi astatine the festival.

Discussing wherefore present is the clip to accidental goodbye to the stage, Billboard reports that the rapper said: “I admit y'all for offering maine my past moving gig due to the fact that I bash not request the money anymore and I volition not beryllium performing.

“I don't privation to bash it anymore. I don't privation radical to wage maine to hop astir and sweat for their amusement anymore.”

Ferrari past asked him what he’d beryllium doing astir different upcoming amusement helium has, to which helium said: “'I’m going to reply the telephone to archer them that I volition not beryllium performing.”

But portion arsenic of present his past show volition beryllium connected December 19 astatine the 93.1 The Beat's Jingle Ball show, helium did accidental he’d execute again contempt his retirement, but connected his ain terms.

T.I. grew up successful Atlanta, which is wherever his last show volition besides be.

T.I.P. was his archetypal signifier sanction and stems from his puerility nickname "Tip," fixed by his grandfather.

He aboriginal changed it to T.I. retired of respect for statement mate Q-Tip.

He was called the "Jay-Z of the South" by Pharrell Williams and would found himself arsenic 1 of rap's astir palmy MCs during the aboriginal 2000s. 

T.I. has dozens of film and television credits and appeared successful the movie American Gangster with Denzel Washington.

The rapper is joined to Tameka Harris, who was nicknamed "Tiny" owed to her 4 ft 11 inch frame, and she archetypal emerged arsenic a subordinate of the set Xscape.

Xscape was an R&B set formed successful 1992 by Kandi Burruss, Tiny and others.

Tiny sang pb for deed singles Understanding, My Little Secret, and Do You Want To.

The mates wed successful June 2010.

T.I. has 7 children - 4 with Harris with 1 mislaid astatine birth.

The others are Messiah Ya'Majesty and Domani with Lashon Dixon and Deyjah Imani with Ms Niko.

Six of his kids regularly look connected the VH1 amusement astir his household called T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle.