T.I. Dropped by AXE Due to Prison Sentence

In a move that's been expected ever since T.I. was arrested last month on drug charges — and was subsequently sent back to prison for 11 months — AXE body spray has officially dropped the rapper as a spokesperson, less than a year after the company signed him to be the face of their product after his release from prison on gun charges.

"We will no longer feature T.I. in our promotional campaign," the company said in a statement. Photos of T.I. have been removed from its website.

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AXE, which staged one of T.I.'s first post-prison performances with a gig in New York, said earlier that it was "troubled" by T.I.'s drug arrest last month.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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