Edd’s MANtra: No Negativity Here

October 15, 2010Edward Bowsercelebrity dish, Edd's MANtra0

Over the course of Georgia Mae’s history, I’ve been accused of many, many things. But the most common accusation is that I’m just a big ol’ hater.

I hate vampire shows, I hate auto-tune, I hate overly tan old ladies who want to sleep with me, I hate dudes who become famous when their sisters are attacked, etc.

Hate, hate, hate. I’m just a big ol’ plate of hate dogs with bottle of haterade.

So today, and just for today, I’m going to nix the negativity in today’s post about another of my nemeses, T.I.

I’ve been on T.I. for years, ever since he came out of nowhere, proclaimed himself King of The South and everyone just went along with it. If I knew it was that easy I would have proclaimed myself King of the Sour Patch Kids long ago. Hopefully I could have gotten some free candy out of it.

Mediocre songs and albums followed, along with a boatload of felonies. But somehow T.I. always walked away relatively unscathed. I still don’t get how the dude got caught with a billion automatic weapons and got a slap on the wrist. Did they think he needed them to play Contra?

Sorry, I promised not to be negative…

But we found out yesterday that T.I. did something even I can’t whine about. He saved some poor guy’s life! From cnn.com:

Rapper T.I. helped police persuade a man not to jump off the roof of high-rise hotel roof in Midtown Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, talked to the man about how a person “can make it through anything,” Atlanta Police spokesman James Polite said.

…Police were trying to talk the man, who appeared to be about 25 years old, from jumping from the 22-story Colony Square Hotel when Harris “appeared out of nowhere,” Polite said.

Harris offered to help convince the man that “life’s not that bad,” a proposal that police accepted, he said.

The man, who was not identified by police, agreed to leave the roof to meet with the rapper.

Wow, it’s amazing how T.I. “appeared out of nowhere,” Batman-style, and was able to save the crazy man from plummeting to his doom. He should be applauded.

And how great is it that he saved another human being’s life TWO DAYS BEFORE before his hearing on a bunch of drug charges he incurred while riding around with his lovely wife (who doesn’t at all look like Jersey Shore marsupial Snooki)? And for the naysayers, he even took the time to inform us that it’s NOT AT ALL a staged publicity stunt to garner sympathy. From xxlmag.com:

“I’m aware some people are saying this was a publicity stunt,” he acknowledged. “That’s preposterous. People refuse to acknowledge that God has a purpose for all people. Fate and destiny, all these things, they put us where we’re supposed to be… I didn’t wake up in the morning knowing this was going to happen.”

Oh Cynical Puppy, you’re too cynical. If this helps sway the judge to let T.I. off the hook yet again, that’s just a big coincidence.

At least that’s my opinion today. Ask me tomorrow and I’ll probably have a more negative outlook.

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