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T.I. was born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. on September 25, 1980, in Bankhead, Atlanta, Georgia.[2] He was raised by his grandparents and was a drug dealer as a teenager.[3] He stated "I carried guns and swung dope as a 13-year-old."[4] He also explained the origin of his nickname Rubber Band Man, saying, "We used to wear rubber bands to signify how much money, how much blow we had."[5] He was nicknamed "Tip" after his paternal great-grandfather.[6] Kawan "KP" Prather, a record executive, discovered and signed T.I. when he was a teenager.[7] Upon signing with Arista Records subsidiary LaFace Records in 2001, he shortened his name to T.I. out of respect for label mate Q-Tip.[8]

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