Rapper T.I.: Troublemaker to troubleshooter?
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It’s been hard to avoid the music of rapper T.I. over the last year, with his No. 1 hits ‘Whatever You Like’ and ‘Live Your Life’ blaring from nightclubs, iPod headphones and car stereos everywhere.
But starting Tuesday night on MTV, the hip-hop star will try out a new role as a sort of celebrity guardian angel who tries to scare kids straight.
In the reality series ‘T.I.’s Road to Redemption,’ young people who’d usually be described as ‘at-risk’ -- troubled backgrounds, limited prospects, bad attitude -- get a surprise visit from the rapper, who favors a carrot-and-stick approach to behavior modification.
In the premiere, an Atlanta street hustler with vague aspirations of becoming an actor gets a crash course in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ But to drive home the point, T.I. also guides him to the basement of a local funeral home, where an attendant has laid out the corpse of another young hood whose luck ran in the opposite direction.
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-- Scott Collins
