<p id=”par-1_21″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/the-saddest-moment-in-my-life-tiny-says-this-traumatic-event-led-to-her-darkest-times.html/”>Tameka “Tiny” Harris and T.I.</a> have been married for more than 15 years and have been dating since 2001. </p>
<p id=”par-2_55″>Like every relationship, theirs had its ups and downs and they split in December 2016 when Tiny filed for divorce. At that time, the filing suggested a serious break, and the couple lived apart for a period. However, the divorce was never finalized, and in 2017, they began appearing together again publicly and reconciled. </p>
<p id=”par-3_52″>Together, Tiny and T.I. have three biological children: two sons, King and Major, and a daughter, Heiress. In addition, they have a blended family that includes children from previous relationships. T.I. has three kids from earlier relationships, and Tiny has one daughter from a previous relationship, bringing their total to seven children.</p>
<p id=”par-4_32″>As one of hip-hop’s most enduring couples, fans have wondered about their early relationship and how they met. Here’s what Tiny shared about when T.I. first tried to talk to her. </p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-tiny-blew-t-i-off-but-he-was-persistent”>Tiny blew T.I. off but he was persistent</h2>
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<p id=”par-5_41″>On a recent episode of <em>Rickey Smiley on the Spot</em>, Tiny recalled that she and T.I. originally met while at Jazze Pha’s Noontime Studios in Atlanta. But at the time, she ignored the <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/rappers/?swcfpc=1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>rapper</a> when he was “trying to talk” to her.</p>
<p id=”par-6_25″>“I blew him off or whatever. But he was so young at the time,” Tiny, who is five years older than her husband, explained. </p>
<p id=”par-7_61″>They ran into each other again at a mall, and Tiny admitted that T.I. “looked good” that day, saying, “I noticed that he looked damn good. I still remember what he looked like, what he had on” in a “Polo outfit” and a “country twang.” The <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/grammy-awards/?swcfpc=1″ target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Grammy</a> winner added that when she went into a lingerie store, he followed her. </p>
<p id=”par-8_24″>“I talked to him for a minute and I end up going into Victoria’s Secret, and he end up coming in there,” she remembered. </p>
<p id=”par-9_67″>Thanks to T.I.’s persistence, they finally exchanged numbers and had their first date, which was at a “$3 dollar café,” where they ate chicken wings and talked in a parked car. Tiny also told Smiley that T.I. insisted that he knew he was “going to get her” years before they even met when she was a member of <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/tiny-explains-why-the-fifth-member-of-xscape-was-kicked-out-of-the-group.html/” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>Xscape</a> and he saw her in a music video. </p>
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<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-t-i-said-when-xscape-s-first-video-came-out-he-knew-i-m-gonna-get-that-little-one”>T.I. said when Xscape’s first video came out, he knew ‘I’m gonna get that little one’</h2>
<p id=”par-10_24″>The story Tiny was referring to about T.I. knowing he would “get her” is what he relayed <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/shorts/DW3ihhbu4NI” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>during an appearance on HOT 97</a>. </p>
<p id=”par-11_32″>T.I.P. revealed that Tiny was his childhood crush as he was a 13-year-old kid when he saw her in the video “Just Kickin’ It” and said, “I’m gonna get that little one.”</p>
<p id=”par-12_54″>The “Whatever You Like” artist recalled, “When ‘Just Kickin’ It’ came out, I ain’t playin’. I said ‘I’m a get the little one. See cause she was my size … Lo and behold, when I got the opportunity to be in the same room with her, the 13-year-old me said, ‘Go get her.’” </p>
<p id=”par-13_76″>T.I. continued, “I introduced myself like she’s supposed to know who I am … And she looked at me, and she kinda brushed me off and I said to myself, ‘I’ll see you again.’ And the next time I seen her, I said, ‘Hey, what’s up?’ I always talked to her like we knew each other already. She laughed, and I said, ‘I got her.’ When she started laughing, I knew I had her.” </p>