FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1980
Date: 26 September 1980
Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. (born September 25, 1980), known professionally as T.I. or Tip, is an American rapper and actor. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Harris is credited as a pioneer of the hip-hop subgenre trap music, along with fellow Georgia-based rappers Jeezy and Gucci Mane. He met local music executive Kawan "KP" Prather in the late 1990s, joining his company Ghet-O-Vision Entertainment — an imprint of Arista and LaFace Records — by 1999. The lukewarm critical and commercial response of his debut studio album, I'm Serious (2001), led him to part ways the label. He then signed with Atlantic Records and found mainstream success with his subsequent releases, co-founding his record label imprint, Grand Hustle Records, in 2003.
Harris gained recognition following his guest appearance on fellow Atlanta-based rapper Bone Crusher's 2003 single "Never Scared" — his first Billboard Hot 100 entry. His second album, Trap Muzik (2003), peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 chart and spawned the top 40 singles "Rubber Band Man" and "Let's Get Away" (featuring Jazze Pha). The following year, Harris guest appeared alongside Lil Wayne on Destiny's Child's hit single "Soldier", and capitalized on this with the release of his third album, Urban Legend (2004). His next three studio albums each debuted atop the Billboard 200; his fourth and fifth, King (2006) and T.I. vs. T.I.P. (2007), were led by the Billboard Hot 100-top ten singles, "What You Know" and "Big Shit Poppin' (Do It)", respectively.
Harris' sixth album, Paper Trail (2008), yielded his furthest commercial success, receiving gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in its first week. It spawned two Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles: "Whatever You Like" and "Live Your Life" (featuring Rihanna); the latter replaced the former atop the chart, and made Harris the first rapper to do so while occupying its top two positions. Following an eleven-month incarceration, his seventh album, No Mercy (2010), witnessed a critical and commercial decline, rebounded by his eighth album, Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head (2012). Harris also guest appeared alongside Pharrell Williams on Robin Thicke's 2013 single "Blurred Lines", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100, and did so in 22 other countries.
The following year, his contract with Atlantic expired; he signed with Columbia Records and enlisted Williams as executive producer for his ninth studio album, Paperwork (2014). As with his previous, it reached number two on the Billboard 200 and saw positive critical reception. The following year, he worked further with album collaborator and then-upcoming hometown native Young Thug to form the short-lived hip-hop collective, Bankroll Mafia. He then signed with Jay-Z's Roc Nation in 2016 to release his political Us or Else (2016–2017) extended play series and compilation album, We Want Smoke (2017); he later signed with Epic Records in 2018 to release his long-delayed tenth album, Dime Trap, in October of that year. His eleventh album, The L.I.B.R.A. (2020) was his first to be released independently. His twelfth and final album, Kill the King, is scheduled for release in 2026.
Harris, a three-time Grammy Award winner, has been described as a leading figure in hip-hop and Southern hip-hop during the 2000s. He has received 19 nominations for the award, as well as 12 Billboard Music Awards, three BET Awards, and two American Music Awards. Prominent industry artists have signed to T.I. through his Grand Hustle Records label since its formation, including Travis Scott, B.o.B, and Iggy Azalea. In his acting career, Harris has starred in the films ATL, Takers, Get Hard, Identity Thief, and in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Ant-Man and its sequel, as well as the reality television series T.I.'s Road to Redemption, T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle, and The Grand Hustle. As an author, he has published two novels: Power & Beauty (2011) and Trouble & Triumph (2012). By the end of the decade, Billboard ranked him the 27th best artist of the 2000s.
Læs mere...25. september 1980 var en torsdag under stjernetegnet for ♎. Det var 268 dag på året. Præsident for USA var Jimmy Carter.
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Date: 25 September 1980
Justice Department's Antitrust Division has concluded that all but 3 aspects of joint operating agreement between Chattanooga Times and Chattanooga News-Free Press can be granted immunity from antitrust action; division, in memorandum to Atty Gen Benjamin R Civiletti, says that Civiletti can legally bar antitrust suits by Government or private individuals against papers for most of joint operating plan put into operation on May 12 (S)
Date: 25 September 1980
By ARNOLD H. LUBASCH
Arnold LUBASCH
Lawrence May, vice president of newspaper deliverers' union, and Dominic Percella, director of its pension and welfare funds, are indicted in Manhattan on charges that they had extorted cash payoffs from several newspaper distributors in metropolitan area; are accused of obtaining payoffs to assure labor peace, to sign collective bargaining contracts and to distribute interim newpapers during '78 strike (S)
Date: 25 September 1980
Carter reads statement to newsmen, White House, on war between Iraq and Iran
Date: 26 September 1980
Special to The New York Times
Editors of CounterSpy, magazine that advocates abolition of CIA, charges that former NY Times reporter Kennett Love helped CIA overthrow Government of Iran in '53 while working for Times; editors, at news conference in Washington, release unpublished paper written in '60 by Love, which they say proves charge; Love says he 'never wittingly' aided or worked for CIA; A M Rosenthal, Times executive editor, says Times has absolute rule against any reporter working for any government agency (M)
Date: 26 September 1980
Iraqis are avidly following news of border war; several hundred foreign correspondents have been invited to Iraq by Pres Saddam Hussein's Government; scene in Baghdad described; illustration of Italian oil workers arriving in Rome after being evacuated from Iraq (S)
Date: 25 September 1980
transcript of Carter's statements on Iranian-Iraqi conflict; illus (M)