According to Tip, he would give his teacher a Snickers in exchange for being allowed to sell to his classmates. He showed us his old elementary school, Grove Park, where he started selling candy at a young age to help his mother, who was on welfare. It was his moniker when he first started rapping, and what he has now decided to go by. He was born Clifford Harris, but his family always called him Tip. It's the age-old fight that it seems rappers his age find themselves in a battle for relevance in a genre that celebrates drugs and crime while chasing his insatiable desire to become a respected entrepreneur and musical legend.

He's promoting a new album, “Dime Trap,” which he's described as a 'Ted Talk' for the trap genre.īut he's 38, which in the rap world can be good (see Jay-Z) or bad, if you look at the average age of most of the young rappers popularizing the genre. His role models are Harry Belafonte, Jay-Z, former Ambassador Andrew Young. We find the multi-hyphenate at an interesting juncture. 'But I did not know how to make a way to get where I needed to be in order to make, you know, my dream a reality.' 'I mean, man, I knew I was good,' Tip says. 'Did you ever think you'd be sitting where you are now? Doing songs for ‘Spongebob’ and nominated for a Tony?' Harris asks.

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