T.I. Gives Best Friend’s Daughter New Car for Good Grades

There is an old African proverb which says that it takes a village to raise a child, and T.I. apparently is living by those words of wisdom. As a reward for making straight As and maintaining a 3.8 grade point average, Tip gifted the daughter of his deceased best friend, Philant Johnson, with a brand new Honda complete with red bow on top. The king of the South shared videos of the gifting on Instagram.

See Phil… Our Loyalty lives forever!!! She’s been on hers & doing everything we can possibly ask her to do. Making straight As & maintaining a 3.8 GPA all the way through school,staying away from all the things we were eyeball deep into when we was her age,& doing any & everything that’s EVER been asked of her since you left. How can we not make sure she rides cool & in comfort her senior year? We miss you more than we can express… but we’ll fill in for you in every way we can until it’s all said & done. Next up… #College 🤷🏽‍♂️ She gon go wherever she wanna go…. and be whatever she wanna be… ON US!!! #LOVE4LIFE #FAMILYFOREVER #RIPBIGPHIL #HustleGangOverErrrthang #PSC4LIFEandDEATH #ImSoHappyToSeeHerHappy #SheDeservesIt

A post shared by TIP (@troubleman31) on Aug 22, 2017 at 7:44pm PDT

Special Thanx to my guy @atlcarguy_dave & her other uncles @croddgrandhustle @kthustle @douggrandhustle @rubiconatl for putting the play together for me!!! I keep playing back the video cause I love to hear her say “I can’t stop smiling”…. and to make sure I heard her right. Didn’t she say she could give up da thought of a prom date? I think that’s what I heard didn’t I Phil???…. heh well, We may lose that battle but as long as she remembers what I told her…. “HER way,on HER terms,in HER time,or NO DICE!!!! #LOVE4LIFE #FAMILYFOREVER #RIPBIGPHIL #PSC4LIFEandDEATH #ImSoHappyToSeeHerHappyv#SheDeservesIt #HustleGangOverErrrthang

A post shared by TIP (@troubleman31) on Aug 22, 2017 at 7:57pm PDT

Johnson, T.I.’s best friend and assistant, was shot several times and killed back in 2006 after a concert in Cincinnati. Hosea Thomas was sentenced to 66 years in prison for the killing.