expediTIously with Tip “T.I.” Harris
If Talib Kweli is Ed Bradley, T.I. Harris would be the Bryant Gumbel of Hip-Hop podcasting.
The series has had a very interesting start. As one of the most profound voices in the culture, he is going to bring all of his charisma — which has yielded fruit in television, film, and his music — to the table.
The 40-year-old multi-hyphenate approaches his interviews with a particular man-ish energy that fills up the room.
While last year, his old school ways got him in trouble, this year, he has stepped into more diverse terrain and expanded the conversations. While other shows have guests that have had significant careers in from the 80s to the early 2000s, he is locked in with the pulse of the new South and the newer Hip-Hopper.
Culturally important, there are episodes of expediTIously that help further shatter the myth that because southerners speak with a slow drawl that they are not swift-witted.
He demolishes that stereotype to smithereens with in-depth conversations with David Banner on the Parchman Mississippi Prison, Daymond John on business, former Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin and Daily Blast Live’s Erica Cobb on COVID-19’s impact on African Americans.
He has also hosted the producer of the documentary One Child Left Behind: The Atlanta Public School Scandal, social scientist Jane Elliot, Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard, and former Fulton County assistant DA Christian Wise Smith to talk about the death of Rayshard Brooks.
T.I.’s long list of guests also includes John Hope Bryant, CEO of The Promise Homes Company, the largest for-profit minority-controlled owners of single-family residential rental homes. Add Gary L. Davis, creator and founder of the Next Level Boys Academy and Killer Mike to discuss his new Greenwood banking platform to the list.
This year, some of the sports and entertainment guests that appeared on his podcast has included Stephen A. Smith, 21 Savage, Goodie Mob for their 25th Anniversary, Benny the Butcher, Young Thug, Jada Kiss, Rapsody, Karlous Miller, Big Sean, Ice Cube, The Dream, Rozanda “Chilli” Thomas and Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, Uncle Luke, Mo’Nique & Sidney Hicks, LL Cool J, Royce Da 5’9”, MC Lyte, Lecrae, Lil Duval, Vince Carter, Kenya Barris, Griselda, Jermaine Dupri, Michael Colyar, Tyler Perry, Luenell, Daymond John, Bonecrusher, the LOX, Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker, Fab, Jeezy, 2 Chainz, Will Packer, Omari Hardwick, Taraji P. Henson, and Mike Tyson.