If anybody understands what rapper Lil Wayne is currently going through, it’s T.I. Just this time last year, the ATL rapper began to serve his eight month prison sentence for weapons possession and was forced to be away from friends, family, and music. Now Young Money’s CEO Lil Wayne will have to serve a year in prison based on a similar charge.

Like many artists, T.I. feels that although Wayne is away his spirit is still present but unlike anyone else Tip and Weezy share a history which goes beyond music. Wayne’s ex-wife and T.I.’s fiancee have their own reality television show together on BET called Tiny & Toya and both their daughters are close friends and are also a part of the all girl group, OMG Girlz.

“Well, his daughter and my daughter, they’re real, real close. My daughter spends the night with them, his daughter comes spend the night with us. I told him, ‘Whatever I can do. Whatever it is that’s within my power’… I know how it is with kids, especially with a period of time like that.

T.I. also explained that since he and Wayne are celebrities, people may feel that they got off easy in the courtroom but believes that the amount of time a person receives is destined for them.

“Even though it may seem like a short time — to the media, it may seem like ‘He got off easy’; to everybody, it may seem like ‘It’s only a couple of months’ — to a child, that’s an eternity,” T.I. continued.

“So I’m like, ‘Whatever I can do, it’s all good.’ I just let him know there’s people out here who’s still reppin’ for him, people who will go above and beyond to do whatever it needs to be done.”