T.I. Announces Retirement from Performing: “I Don’t Need the Money Anymore; I Just Don’t Want to Do It.” .Linh

T.I. made a decision about performing live, which is “about the money.”

On Thursday, Oct. 10, the rapper, 44 — alongside Young Dro — sat down with 96.1 The Beat’s afternoon show where the station’s Jingle Ball holiday concert in Atlanta on Dec. 19 came up.

T.I. is set to headline the gig, which will also feature Saweetie, Sexyy Red, The Kid LAROI, Khalid and Tinashe, but it may be his final performance.

“I appreciate y’all for offering me my last working gig because I do not need the money anymore and I will not be performing,” he said during the conversation. “I don’t want to do it anymore…I don’t want people to pay me to hop around and sweat for their entertainment anymore.”

The “Shoulder Lean” artist, 45, then teased he would be taking on the concerts the “Live Your Life” artist doesn’t want. “I will be picking up all of Tip’s shows that he ain’t going to. Doing them all,” Dro said.

After host Ferrari Simmons asked T.I. if he was going to “do” something for another upcoming gig, the “No Mediocre” performer replied: “Of course, I’m going to answer the phone to tell them that I will not be performing.”

T.I. did have a caveat though — that he would perform on his own terms.

Last month, T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris won a lawsuit against MGA Entertainment, claiming the company violated the intellectual property rights of their music group, the OMG Girlz, with the company’s L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G. dolls.

The Xscape singer, 49, shared her joy after the years-long court battle which began in 2020 and ended with a $71 million victory.

“We did this for the city. We did this for the culture,” Tiny said during an Instagram Live video outside of a Santa Ana, Calif., federal courthouse.

She added: “It was a fight. It was a hell of a fight. We couldn’t be more happy.”