It’s indisputable that T.I. loves his family. The rapper may have come under heavy criticism over remarks he made about then-17-year-old daughter Deyjah Harris, comments that turned into “hymengate” on social media. T.I. and his family are set to address the controversy on this current season of T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle, and in a recent interview, Zonnique Pullins admitted that the rapper often is more restrictive with his daughters than sons.

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On a recent episode of his reality show, T.I. was chatting with good friend Monica about one of her sons dating. She said she’s doing her best to not be “overbearing,” to which T.I. said boys tend to need space to learn how to do things on their own. In a confessional interview, T.I. said that he does feel an added responsibility to shelter his girls from getting their hearts broken.

“To be honest with you, I only feel the need to protect the girls from heartbreak. So for me, it’s about making sure that my daughters grow up as happy and unencumbered by outsiders tweaking their emotions as possible,” T.I. said. “That doesn’t mean that I don’t want my daughters to date or have experiences. It just means I know that they will hold onto those experiences and I don’t know how that will translate when they come out of it.” Watch the clip of T.I. & Tiny: Friends & Family Hustle below.

The Harris household is a full one, whether the children live at home or on their own. T.I. and wife Tameka “Tiny” Harris have a blended family that includes Deyjah, Heiress, Messiah, Domani, Major, King, and Zonnique. The famous couple have featured their brood on various reality television shows, and through the ups and downs, they’ve always leaned on each other for support.

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Tiny’s daughter and T.I.’s stepdaughter Zonnique is the oldest of the bunch at 24-years-old, and in a recent interview with Hollywood Life, she revealed that the girls may have to adhere to rules that the boys don’t need to follow. “Now that I’m a little older it’s gotten a little better for me. But [T.I.] is definitely super overprotective,” she said. “I just hope that Heiress doesn’t get it is as bad as me and Deyjah. I always think that, like Heiress is going to have it the worst.”

“Since we were all younger he’s always been super protective over the girls. And it always seemed like the boys could just do whatever,” she added. Zonnique shared that Tiny would stick up for the girls because she noticed a bit of the double-standard as well. “My mom will always argue, like, you don’t care that the boys go on dates, you let their girlfriends come over. You know we meet their girlfriends, it’s all cool it’s like a regular thing. But you know, if I’m in a relationship and I bring my boyfriend over, the whole family has to talk to him. He has to go outside with pops and have these hour-long conversations.”

Zonnique added that she’s been in a “serious” relationship with Bandhunta Izzy for some time, but T.I. still keeps a watchful eye. “I actually live with my boyfriend now and stuff like that. And both my parents actually seem to really like my boyfriend,” she said. “But pops still pretty much does the same thing. He still has to take him outside to talk for an hour or whatever. But I feel like my boyfriend now is kind of like his match. I feel like he sees a lot of his younger self in my boyfriend.”

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The shocking and tragic death of Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, who is considered by many to be the greatest player of all time, has forced all of us to reconsider how we interact with our family members. Death, even that of somebody that we did not know personally, always gets us thinking about how finite our lives truly are. Anything can happen to anybody at any given moment. Kobe Bryant and Gianna Bryant are no longer with us and we’re sending all of our love and strength to Vanessa Bryant and her family at this time. Following his initial tribute post to the iconic hooper, Atlanta icon T.I. shared touching messages for his loved ones, singling out his wife Tiny Harris before penning heartfelt messages for his kids.

“I love you girls more than my vocabulary will allow me to express,” wrote Tip on social media, tagging Zonnique Pullins and Deyjah Harris. The rapper has had complicated histories with both of his girls, especially recently with hymen-gate, which had Deyjah humiliated in national headlines. “You have grown so much right before my very eyes & blossomed into strong, brilliantly opinionated, independent young women. I’m so proud of you both and I love you to no end, more than you’ll ever know. Please forgive me for any and all imperfections that cause misunderstandings between us…”

In a follow-up message, T.I. showed love to his sons. Clearly, he took this devastating moment as a wake-up call that he should be spending each moment of his life caring for his family because, at the end of the day, anything can happen.