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T.I. to Teach Class On the Business of Trap Music at Atlanta HBCU Free Press of Jacksonville

By Cassidy Sparks Tip “T.I.” Harris is headed to the classroom. The rapper and businessman will be lending his music industry expertise to students at Clark Atlanta University next semester teaching an innovative new course [...]

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