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ATLANTA – T.I. didn’t need to attend the BET Hip-Hop Awards to win two trophies on Saturday.

The rapper, who is locked up in an Arkansas penitentiary on a federal weapons conviction, won the best collaboration award with Rihaanna for the song “Live Your Life” and the album of the year award for “Paper Trail.” His fiancee Tameka “Tiny” Cottle accepted his awards at the ceremony in Atlanta and read a letter by the rapper, who began serving a yearlong sentence in late May.

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“Although I’m not there with you all, I’m there in spirit,” Cottle quoted the rapper as writing. “My road to redemption is almost over. … Thanks for the support.”

Jay-Z was honored as the “MVP of the Year,” while Drake took home “Rookie of the Year,” and Ice Cube received the “I Am Hip-Hop” icon award.

Ice Cube said he was humbled by the award, and he believes his career as filmmaker could earn him more honors in the future. He helped launch the gangsta rap genre with the group NWA, and he starred in “Barbershop” and “Friday,” which he also co-wrote.

“When you get recognized by your peers for a life of work, you got to be humbled,” the rap veteran said. “I’m honored by this. I have 20 more years of work left in me. I hope (BET) is ready to give out two of these awards.”

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Rapper Busta Rhymes presented the award for “DJ of the Year” to DJ AM, the celebrity spinner who died of an accidental drug overdose in August.

Kanye West, meanwhile, couldn’t hijack the stage, because the rapper was a no-show. West had been expected to attend the fourth annual awards show. He fell under scrutiny for interrupting Taylor Swift’s award-winning moment at last month’s MTV Video Music Awards.

Jay-Z took the stage with Young Jeezy to perform “Real as It Gets” and rap group Goodie Mob performed its 1995 song “Cell Therapy.”

The award show will air on Oct. 27.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LastManStandingTall/ LastManStandingTall

    It’s BET, so I’m not surprised.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tellemall/ tellemall

    Well T.I. is a rapper whom I happen to like so what he wins a award from jail I mean he’s a very talented man. Give credit where it’s due!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/minimeval29/ minimeval29

    How is it sending a bad message? We as a people need to mind our own bussiness and help our children to idol there parents not the famous people of the world. People make mistakes so just because there on TV dont mean they shouldn’t be forgiven. We need to help our children to be there best not follow behind a person just because they have money or are famous ther is so much more to life then money and fame.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/minimeval29/ minimeval29

    We need to mind our own bussiness people what award are you going to get.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/tjfralt/ tjfralt

    ti needs to be locked up for life.if that fool donot how good he has then f$ck him.i wish he would have gotten 30 yrs for being a dumdum a$$ fool.!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sub-Negro/ Sub-Negro

    Oh wow idk that the show had takin place. But good for TIP he is one of the rare mainstream artist that I can tolerate.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/HONEYTONE1/ HONEYTONE1

    IT IS NOT SENDING A BAD MESSAGE! WE ALL HAVE DOWNFALLS & MAKE MISTAKES SOME WE CAN RECOVER FROM & SOME THAT HAUNT US. RIGHT NOW YOU NEED TO LOOK AT THIS!
    ” HE HAS OWNED UP & IS ACCOUNTABLE” FOCUS ON THE FACT WHAT HE HAS DONE RIGHT! HIS MUSIC!! NOTHINGS IS PERFECT & PLEASE STOP BLAMING TV & ACTORS FOR WHAT CHILDREN DO! IT FIRST BEGINS AT HOME IF YOU TEACH RIGHT EVERYTHINGS ELSE RIGHT WILL FOLLOW TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WE ALL HAVE FLAWS & FAULTS STOP JUDGING GOD!! & ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jlovebooks/ jlovebooks

    Being an ex-felon and now attempting to make a difference in redirecting the lives of our at-risk youth, I will never see something like this as sending a bad message. If there wasn’t a such thing as “Change,” we wouldn’t have had powerful people like Malcolm X – T.I has done more good in the last few years than bad so let that man do his thing…

    J. Love
    http://www.jlovebooks.com

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/blkpuddn/ blkpuddn

    REGARDLESS OF WHERE HE’S AT NOW I THINK HE DESERVES TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FOR HIS TALENT. AN EVERYBODY HAS A CHANCE TO IMPROVE THEIR SELF…WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JerZzZz/ JerZzZz

    BET been sending the wrong message for years. The worst channel on TV. MTV at a close 2nd.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Divaatash/ Divaatash

    LOL WOW, inmates are mad popular today…. I tell yah… I swear if my little cousin says he wants to be an inmate when he grows up I’m going to put some rockets on him and send his ass to the moon…. he has a better chance making it in space with E.T.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Divaatash/ Divaatash

    I mean its true we all make mistakes but damn…. good for him though…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/red_kuntry_girl/ red_kuntry_girl

    I don’t think its setting a bad example because he won the awards while locked up. Everybody makes mistakes in life oh well life goes on. He won because people love his music. Whats the difference with him being in or out of jail. Either way it goes his fans voted for him and he won. The only thing is he wasn’t there to accept it his self. In or out of jail i’m going to support and vote for him.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/britt4lyfe77/ britt4lyfe77

    Even though he is locked up, you have to give credit where it is due. The man writes some good stuff and “Live Your Life” is definitely hot. Congrats!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/0VancouverHurts/ 0VancouverHurts

    Good for him. It is irrelevant to decide whether he should have been given the award if he was in jail or not.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CNoriega/ CNoriega

    T.I is way over hyped. Now he is getting fame because he is in prison? Black people are always on some low level sh*t.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/goodazzhead21/ goodazzhead21

    That means my husband doing the damn thing. Thats hot when you get two awards while locked up.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/JAY_DONT_DO_DARK_HOZ/ JAY_DONT_DO_DARK_HOZ

    ITS FUNNY HOW PEOPLE LIKE AND RESPECT SNITCHES…..LIKE T.I. AND 50 CENT…..AND ITS SAD HOW PEOPLE CANT OPEN THEY EYEZ AND REALIZE THE FAKENESS IN SOME OF THESE SO CALLED RAPPERS…….SHIIT SAD AS HELL…..FUUCK T.I…..I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THE BIITCH ASSS NICCA

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/t-mac-70/ t-mac-70

    ITS FUNNY HOW PEOPLE KEEP CALLING T.I. A SNITCH IF HE SNITCHED ON SOMEBODY WELL HOW COME HE THE ONLY ONE THAT WENT TO JAIL AINT NO SUCH THING AS A SECERT SNITCH IF ANYTHING HE GOT SNITCHED ON AND IM GLAD HE WON ALBUM OF THE YEAR CAUSE THAT WAS A CLASSIC ALBUM THE MAN HAS TALENT AND WHEN HE GET OUT HE STILL GONE BE THE KING HE ONE OF THE REALEST RAPPERS OUT TODAY AND BIG UPS TO ICE CUBE TWO.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    Im just giving my opinion and to me…going back to when rap-started up,it came-with CRIME and most of the RAPPERS had or done been in the SYSTEM before or STARTED out of PRISON. LIFE ITSELF<CRIME<DRUGS<MONEY<CARS<CLOTHES<HOES<is all these RAPPERS KNOW. SOME KEPT IT REAL AND OTHERS JUST RAP…SO T.I IS NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO HAS DONE WRONG NOR A CRIME. IF WE ARE GOING TO THROW STONES AT T.I…SH*T WE BETTER LINE ALL OF THEM UP…and NOT JUST THE RAPPERS BUT R&B SINGERS,TOO.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/TMAC_35000/ TMAC_35000

    The awards are for his music, not for going to prison. One has nothing to do with the other and black people need to get off this lame ass stop snitching campaign.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    I dont care about TIP, he aiight… Tell me why DJ AM won DJ of the Year, just because he died of a drug overdose???

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Roach83/ Roach83

    Its like Ok well give a drug addict an award and it will be Ok.What is that going to show are children like its good to do drugs and you get rewarded for that.Shoot look at all the celebs for getting in Truble for drinking and driving and drugs and sex.Shoot i work hard for my money while they pay there way out of the sh*t they do and yet we reward them.While the heard working American is busting there *ss to make a living while they sit back and live the free life.So to be Onist with you that sh*t Isnt right.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Shenna34/ Shenna34

    TI was set up, that’s why he is in jail, it was all a fake seller at a fake house out in the middle of no where. it was a set up.

    and TI’s Paper Trail Album IS HOT, I listen to it everyday.

    and Rap was NOT started by a bunch of criminals to the sistah that posted that, rap started in the mid 1970′s in New York Club Scene and House Party Scene. Let’s not get it twisted Folks.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/2daTopnonStop/ 2daTopnonStop

    He made the record and it was hot~ why shouldn’t he receive an award for his art and creativity? He has stepped up to the plate, owned his mistake and is serving his time for doing wrong. What message would be sending our children if he was shunned from getting the award? That when you do wrong you will FOREVER pay for it? What about redemption? Forgivness?

    Come on….& as far as DJ AM he was a hot DJ~ too bad he felt he needed to poison himselve to death though~

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Southern_Swagger82/ Southern_Swagger82

    This is a bunch of bull$hit! Hollywood still give filmmaker Roman Polanski film awards and he molested a 13 year old girl in 1977. I don’t even fault them though,who I fault is my fellow black people because when you are black,rich and famous then you need to sit your azz down because everybody will be out to get you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Complex_Crazy_Beauty/ Complex_Crazy_Beauty

    Good for him. Tell me,if people were threating your life and your families life you would prepare for a war to protect yourself and your family wouldn’t you? I know I would and that’s exactly what he did!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/grapejuice/ grapejuice

    T.I. You will be the next Tupac in ur own way, ur no fake Rapper, I will alway respect u,,,, I pray for u ever day my brother ,”one love
    one Heart”

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    Shenna34…im the one who wrote the statement and rap music started long before then and they rapped about everything from being locked up to your momma jokes to eachother then on to crimes,drugs,clothes,cars,house,money,hoes,killing,etc. Im sure if you do your homework you will see that-im speaking the truth and if you do a back ground check you will see that-JUST ABOUT ALL RAPPERS HAVE BEEN TO JAIL(IN THE SYSTEM ITSELF) OR PRISON AND SOME EVEN CAME OUT OF PRISON RAPPING AND BECOMING A RAPPER OR R & B SINGER. AND TO CLEAR THE AIR I DID NOT SAY THAT RAP WAS STARTED BY A BUNCH OF CRIMINAI…I DID SAY ALOT OF THEM HAD BEEN IN THE SYSTEM AND SOME KEPT IT REAL OTHERS JUST RAP…MEANING THEY TALKED ABOUT SH*T THEY NEVER DONE…ON TOP OF THAT-RAP WAS NOT JUST DONE AT HOUSE PARTIES OR CLUBS,THEY WAS DONE ON THE STREETS,ON THE CORNER,IN THE BASEMENT,OUTSIDE IN THE YARDS,ON THE BASKETBALL COURT. SO YOU DON’T GET IT TWISTED.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jazzpast/ jazzpast

    TI is the next Tupac?? are you f**king serious? dang, what is wrong with us? How can you even justify that?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Pcola_ACE/ Pcola_ACE
  • http://www.blackplanet.com/isseymiyake/ isseymiyake

    the wrong message is when officials such as congressman and senators can go to prison for fraud or tax evasion, classified as felons, and still keep their pensions….OUR hard earned tax dollars at work. lets look at the fact that R kelly can sleep with an underaged girl, have it RECORDED and STILL get acquitted….i did not hear radio stations stop playing his music or Oprah get mad about that ish…..i did not hear about Jay Z comment on that

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Da_J_Rok/ Da_J_Rok

    lol… @ T.I. the next Pac????, yeah and Santa, The Tooth Fairy and Gingerbread Man were just spotted robbing the Easter Bunny…clown

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Floridanigg84/ Floridanigg84

    T.I. THE NEXT PAC???WTF…YALL GOT PAC TOSSING AND TURNING IN HIS GRAVE RITE NOW…FIRST OFF T.I. IS A SNITCH AND PAC WAS A REAL NICCA!!PLAN AND SIMPLE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/whozdatladyE/ whozdatladyE

    I HATE TO BE A STICK IN THE MUD, BUT GOING TO JAIL FOR GUNS CHARGES PROBATION VIOLATIONA DN SOFORTH DID NOT NEGATE THE TALENT GOD GAVE “TI”( for the song “Live Your Life” and the album of the year award for “Paper Trail.”) I CAN HARDLY CALL PEOPLE ON THEIR PHONES AND NOT HEAR THAT LIVE YOU LIFE SONG. IT WAS ESPECIALLY INSPIRATIONAL AND ENCOURAGING TO MY BROTHER WHO DID TWO TOURS IN IRAQ ONLY TO COME HOME TO A WIFE WHO HAD LEFT HIM FOR SOMEONE ELSE. Rihanna Live Your Life Lyrics

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/trisha_369/ trisha_369

    Da_J_Rok…thanks for always giving me-something to lmao about,when I read your comment…and I mean that in a GOOD WAY. Jazzpast-I feel you. Don’t get me,wrong-even thou I like TI music…I don’t look at him as the next 2pac. And no im not knocking whoever stated it-maybe they feel he is and thats there right to do so.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CrystalCry/ CrystalCry

    People were talkin bout him fallin off cuz he got locked up 4 a yr. Day crazy!! Him winning while still being locked up is proof, he’ll make it bigger then he eva was!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ItsDatMemphisNMe/ ItsDatMemphisNMe

    Isn’t it YOUR responsibility to make sure that YOUR children recieve the right messages? Stop letting BET, MTV, and the radio raise your bad@ss kids. Do YOUR job, raise your own d@mn kids and guide them in the right direction instead of expecting everybody else to do it for you.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sexxiatgsu/ sexxiatgsu

    TI had those weapons for a reason and I can’t blame the dude at all!! After seeing the situation he was in I feel he did what he had to do. He is one of the most intelligent rappers i’ve seen in a while and his talent is just limitless. I love this guy and I can see him becoming even bigger than he is now!! I look forward to buying anything he has to offer!! As far as the Tupac comparison….he may not be there yet, but he does have the potential to get there!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/masculine31/ masculine31

    lmao@ wins 2 awards from jail

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/cestleon/ cestleon

    I wouldn’t have bought silencers to defend my family, f**king dumbass! WHY WOULD YOU NEED SILENCERS BESIDES HAVING INTENTIONS FOR A CLANDESTINE PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE? He’s not the next Tupac. Tupac is dead and some of you fools need to accept that! Get over it, already. He ain’t coming back. He lived by the sword and you want to cry because his ass eventually was impaled on it! Call me a hater, but some of y’all just hate the truth! He’s (back to T.I) just the flavor of the minute and will be as irrelevant as Master P in a few years. I stopped watching award shows years ago because they go by computer projected sales and not TALENT!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EQUINOX2003/ EQUINOX2003

    I know dudes who are not rappers and they seem to buy a gun a week. Come to work brag about them like its nothing. Its a shame that he was caught up but TI said it himself….”I broke the law..I have to do the time!” What else can you want from a man? I think musically he has proven that he is one of the better artists in the industry. We all make some choices that may not always be the best but luckily for most we don’t have the $ to do some of the things we would do and the cameras on us 24/7 to expose us. Keep your head up TI and as long as you are growing as a man and continue to put good things out into the world you will continue being a success in whatever you desire.

    Much Respect……

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