T.I. landed himself back in jail for violating probation, but you would think he would make better decisions and stay out of the pen, especially with Tip expressing the fact that prison is no place he wants to be. A couple of months ago in a taping for his BET special, “Food For Thought: Conversations With T.I.” Clifford spoke on his experience with prison and why he doesn’t want to be in the company of convicts.

“To be candid with you, I learned, man, prison ain’t for gangsters, prison is for losers,” he told Smith. “Gangsters find ways to avoid prison. Gansters find ways to exit the game and legitimize their businesses and learn how to turn their strengths into enterprises.”

“If you look around in a prison, at least myself, I saw thieves, I saw burglars, I saw crackheads, I saw, you know, the same people that I would walk around on the street, and you would never associate with these people out of respect for yourself,” he continued. “Ok, so if you’re on the street and you’re looking at these people and you are above their standards, how do you and them end up in the same place, one bed next to each other? I got to be better than that.”

Hopefully T.I.’s current stay in jail will be his last.