those quotes are from over a month, like the gilette thing there was no context. the print made it sound like he was real salty when he was actually joking. same thing might be the case with the t.i. song review. of course theres going to be a level of resentment when that much money was passed up, but i think its relatively minor. big sees the big picture of while there was money lost, we are still very wealthy, and thats my brother. dre not touring has similar reasoning to there not being an outkast album on the horizon, he's not going to do something just because.
i agree with the last post about how big boi confronts the outkast questions. hes out here promoting his album, basically anything he says people will run with it, and his album essentially becomes something in the fine print at the bottom of the page.