TI Apologizes Again for His Hillary Clinton Comments
The Grammy award-winning artist addressed Oprah’s comments at the end of his apology video Tuesday, saying, “Oprah, you’ve been in my house before”.
T.I. performs at T.I.‘s Free Fan Concert at Terminal West on September 25, 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Now the rapper is apologizing in this video.
The rapper is facing intense scrutiny after comments he made during an interview with DJ Whoo Kid in which he said he would never vote for Hillary Clinton and accused women of making “rash decisions emotionally”, read the full quote below. However, she was reassured that T.I did, in fact, make such comments. “My comments about women running for president were unequivocally insensitive and wrong”, he tweeted. Tip posted a video apology on his Facebook page Thursday (Oct. 15) for th e ” jokes” he made. “I don’t know enough”. After then addressing those who don’t know him, he explained that he knows his daughters and anyone else’s daughters are capable of leading the nation.
“All of you have put homes, businesses and families on your back and do things that are unthinkable and seemingly impossible”, he said. I said a few things that were insensitive and hurtful to women.
I’m being told to be quiet & just let this pass…. “I sincerely apologize to everyone I offended”.
He added, “I know you know how I joke and I know you know my heart”. First and foremost I want to say I apologize to the women that I know and that know me, my mother, my wife, my daughters, my cousins, my nieces, my sisters, my aunties. I know better than that. “However, this time I reached for a joke that was in very poor taste, using a stereotype associate to women that I should have not done”.
“I apologize. My intention was only to be humorous, not to disrespect”, he concluded.