Feature: T.i. - T.I.: Looking For A Hero

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A room waits for T.I. It isn't an Atlantic Records office or a line around a record store; this is a West Philadelphia community center gymnasium, filled with less than 100 children, between the ages of four and 12, with a few special exceptions.

There is no mention of T.I.'s mandatory community service, or voting or his upcoming Paper Trail album. As select kids are leading a makeshift pep-rally, spouting off the lyrics to songs like "Top Back," "What You Know" and "Big Things Poppin'," a fleet of Secret Service-like black Ford Excursions pulls out front. Clifford Harris, a father of...