Rapper T.I.’s week just went downhill.

He started off performing at the VMAs (introduced by Jordin Sparks’s newsmaking comment), but now his baby mama is suing him for more money to raise their kids together.

Normally this would be where I call Lashon Dixon — his childhood sweetheart, mind you — a gold-digger, but she gets a measly $2,000 a month from him for the two boys (ages 7 and 8). That doesn’t sound like very much to me to raise a family on, and I think it’s only fair that he pays up.

If he fights it, Dixon can always reference the lyrics in his big hit “Whatever You Like”:

Gas up the jet for you tonight
And baby you can go wherever you like
I said you can go wherever you like

Anytime you want to, pick up the telephone
You know it ain’t nothin’, drop a couple stacks on you
Want it, you can get it, my dear
Five million dollar homes, drop Bentleys, I swear, yeah

Unless he pulls a Diddy, it sounds like he can afford it. Though maybe it would have been better if she didn’t have to drag him to court for it.