T.I. has revisited the time he persuaded Creed frontman Scott Stapp not to jump off a hotel balcony.
The Atlanta rapper retold the story on a new episode of Still 400 - The Mannie & Juvie Show, telling hosts Mannie Fresh and Juvenile that the incident happened in 2005, when T.I., his wife Tiny, and a friend had checked into a Miami hotel.
Tip and his friend went to the balcony to smoke weed, when the rapper said he started "hearing grumbling." He asked his friend if he was hungry, and his friend said it wasn’t him. After a while, the noise became louder.
"So this particular balcony, half of it was covered. And then the other half, you could walk to the rail and look over. So I walk out to the rail and look up. And it's a man, a white man. And he's like mumbling, talking to himself, groaning. And he couldn't move. He was trying to move, but couldn't move," T.I. explained.
"And I'm like, 'Man, what's up? You alright?' I don't know why I asked him that. I'm like, 'Man, you alright?' … Long story short, he was trying to get from one room to another room because he say his girl was in there cheating on him with his buddy. So I guess he had done fell, and now he wanted to go on and keep jumping. And I was like, 'Nah, man, nah, man, let's get you some help.'"
"We just kept talking to him, telling him that it wasn't that bad," T.I. continued. "The people had done got up there, got him down. And then I think it might have been the next Monday I found out that that was a dude from Creed, the rock band. He always goes on interviews telling people that I saved him. I didn't save him. He made the decision to save his own."
"Glory goes to God," T.I. added. "I didn't do anything."
The Creed frontman shared the story in 2012, telling VH1 that, "[T.I.] immediately took care of the situation and saved my life."
However, Stapp’s recollection of the incident differed slightly, and he described it as happening in 2004, when both artists were "writing songs for The Passion of The Christ: Songs Inspired By soundtrack." However, there appears to be no evidence of T.I.’s involvement in the project.
"We had briefly interacted there and knew what each looked like. We’d talked about being fans of Alabama … It’s ironic — he walked in, and I found out later it was the only room left in the hotel and he came in off the street and came out, and as I’m lying on the ledge, blood fell to [T.I.’s] feet and he looked up and he had an Alabama hat on."
However, in 2018, Stapp dialed back the story that he was attempting to hurt himself, telling TMZ that he actually "had an accident."
"[T.I.] found me injured and called an ambulance. He definitely was quick going to get me the help I needed when I was injured."