When you had uber-producer Pharrell Williams describing you as “the Jay-Z of the South,” you had to know you had made your mark in the hip-hop and rap community. That was exactly the title given to rapper-actor-producer and entrepreneur, T.I., who had an incredible amount of overnight success both on record and film. His album King made it to Number One in the Billboard charts in 2006, and his collaboration with pop superstar Justin Timberlake on the song “My Love” was in heavy rotation on radio and video channels worldwide. Like many rappers before him, such as Ice T and Queen Latifah, T.I.