T.I. Settles with Restaurant Employees $75k In Unpaid Wages

6/12/2018 5:37 PM PDT

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imageT.I.[1] will need to dive into his own pockets to pay the unpaid wages of his restaurant employees who lost their jobs when it closed its doors.

Tip just settled with 9 of 11 employees who went after him after his Scales 925 shut down in 2016. Each will get $8,333.33 in unpaid money ... totaling about $75,000. The rapper is also on the hook for another $25,000 in attorney's fees -- do the math and it's right around $100,000.

As for his part -- T.I. claimed he wasn't a bad restaurant owner -- he says he put a manager in charge who siphoned money[2] to line his own pockets.

Now back to the whole situation with Houston's[3] ... 

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