T.I.'s Road to Redemption (2009)
T.I.'s Road To Redemption is an American reality television show that premiered on February 10, 2009, on MTV. The show was produced by T.I., Michael Hirschorn, Stella Stolper and Chris Choun of Ish Entertainment. The series, focusing on the 45 days before rapper T.I.'s March sentencing, hoped to encourage teenagers to avoid spending a life of crime by showing seven teenagers that there is another way. In T.I.'s Road to Redemption, T.I. shares the mistakes he has madeand the lessons he learned. The show includes events in his personal life such as the birth of his sixth son and the release of his album, Paper Trail. In 2007, T.I. was convicted of two felony gun charges. He served a sentence of one year and one day behind bars starting March 27, 2009. He was also sentenced to 1500 hours of community service. The series started filming in June 2008 continued until March 2009. "We visited T.I. early in 2008 while he was under house arrest in Georgia and found a man utterly unlike his rap persona," Stella Stolper and Michael Hirschorn of Ish Entertainment said. "He felt that he was undergoing a karmic reckoning, a time when he would have to balance the scales of his life and integrate who he was with who he is. We've never seen someone so introspective, so smart about how who he was back in the slums of Atlanta is affecting who he is now."
Seasons & Episode
An 18 year old from Atlanta known as Pee Wee, receives an intervention from T.I., in hopes he will reform his ways of street hustling and go back and get his education.
A teenage gang member in Atlanta is given an intervention by T.I.
T.I. has former gang members who made their way out, meet up with an 18-year old member of the Harbor City Crips to help him find his way out of the gang life.
T.I. heads to Atlanta where he tries to convince a young father how important an education is.
An 18-year old living in a halfway house in Los Angeles is given a reward by T.I. after persevering despite unyielding adversity.
Donald is an 18-year-old student who has had a rough life but has stayed positive. T.I. respects him for this and wants to show Donald how he will be rewarded if he stays on the right path. T.I. heads to Donald's home to treat him as king for the day, including a celebrity styled haircut and then tries on some new clothes from T.I.'s Akoo line. T.I. takes Donald out for dinner and gives him a serious conversation on his own mistakes and informs Donald how one more mistake can ruin his life. To Donald's surprise, T.I. pays for a recording session with music producer Polow Da Don. At first Donald is just playing around in the studio so T.I. tells him to get serious and write some lyrics. Two hours later, T.I. hands Donald a copy of Donald's original song as a gift.
T.I has just four days remaining before being sentenced, so he spends all the time he can with his family.
