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T.I. releases 'No Mercy': Can he make his new album a hit from jail?

by theGrio | December 8, 2010 at 11:23 AM
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From Entertainment Weekly

T.I. couldn’t have picked a worse time to be missing in action. The rapper-actor, 30, should be out hawking his long-delayed seventh album, No Mercy, which finally arrived in stores today.

Instead he’s sitting in a federal prison cell in Arkansas, where he began an 11-month sentence on Nov. 1 after violating probation. “We were gearing up to put an album out,” sighs Michael Kyser, head of urban music at Atlantic Records, T.I.’s label since 2003.

“But we wanted him to help market and promote it. That would have been nice.”

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