It doesn't "stand for" anything. The use of the word "tip" in the sense of "something given to another person" (often a small sum of money, but also sometimes information) has been around since at least the early 17th century.
The fact that you're asking what it "stands for" suggests that someone has tried to tell you that it's an acronym for something like "To Insure Promptness", but this is almost certainly not true. Forming words from acronyms was nearly unheard of before the 19th century and only became really common in the 20th, and as mentioned "tip" meaning "gratuity" has been around for considerably longer than that.
first his rap name was tip then ppl thought he was sayin chip so he spelled it t.i.p. and now for short he says t.i.
Shortened version of TIP; His childhood nickname. He changed it to TI to avoid confusion between him and another fellow rapper, Q-Tip.
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It comes from his nick name Tip. When he got signed he just shortened it to T.I.
From my research, I found that ti vs tip is an album released in 2007 by Atlantic records by Nick Marx. Online, you can find the album and the lyrics to all of the songs.
yes! he is from Atlanta, Georgia. he also goes by king and tip.
T.I. is his stage name and he's better known by his stage name.
how did my baby clifford Joseph (tip) harris jr. meet tiny?
his grand father as a child called him tip
when t.i was first signed to laface records in 2000 he was known as tip. but due to a fellow label mate Q tip he shorten his name to t.i
yes they are. tiny really want's him his name tip(clifford)
No it is short for Tip, a nickname his grandfather gave him. His real name is Clifford.
It comes from his nick name Tip. When he got signed he just shortened it to T.I.
yes yes
He was called Tip in his childhood. He just shortened it to T.I.
"TI vs TIP was release on July 3, 2007 by the American rapper TI. It took a year and a half to record all the songs in the album and it was number 1 on the charts when it came out."
yes go to imesh.com
T.I. doesn't stand for anything. His childhood name was Tip, that's what everyone called him when he was growing up. So he just shortened it to T.I. because of the rapper Q-Tip, for respect for him. =) -shelbi
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