Wine-O was a mutual acquaintance of T.I.’s DJ MLK and told him how Iggy wasn’t being fully honest. So to sort out the legalities, MLK got the two men on the phone to iron everything out. What Wine-O thought was to be a cordial conversation between two businessmen turned into a bunch of lip wrestling.
“I’m being respectful and thinking I’ll get respect back. But he started talking to me like I’m a broke bum in the ditch,” Wine-O says. “He asked ‘what’s the price’ and I told him we can let our lawyers talk it out. But he’s talking loud and wouldn’t let me say anything. He gets off the phone, hits Twitter and calls me stupid. But I let it go.”
The final straw, however, was when one of Iggy’s fans started disrespecting Wine-O on Twitter. “She was saying I’m broke and ‘Iggy never was with you,’” Wine-O reveals. “So I hit up Iggy myself and said ‘look here, lil mama. You got one more time to disrespect me or I’ll expose you.’”
The next thing Wine-O knows, his phone is ringing in the middle of the night. It’s T.I. “He says ‘Iggy says you’re threatening to do something bad to her. Leave her alone and he’ll leave you alone.’
Wine-O continues, “If I say what else he said to me, they’re liable to pick him up and put him back in jail. I ain’t no snitch. But he did threaten my family.”
So to let off some steam, Wine-O blows out the candles on T.I.’s 31st birthday with the stabbing diss record “Happy Birthday T.I.” The single kills two birds with one stone as Wine-O prepares for the October release of his forthcoming mixtape The Killing Fields.
“Number one street code is you don’t charge a man behind what a woman says. Number two: respect every man unless he disrespects you. That means T.I.’s money and his little name went to his head,” says Wine-O. “I retired from rap but T.I. brought me back. Do I let a man disrespect me? No! His prayer is that he keeps it music.”
