Akon) 56 Barz Hunt Em Down Remember Me (Feat Mary J. Pharrell) Get Loose Get Ya Shit Together Limelight Motivation My Life Prayin' For Help Stand Up Tha King The Greatest U Don't Know Me What They Do Why U Mad At Me Bounce Like This What You Know Front Back Goodlife I'm Straight I'm Talkin' To You King Back Live In The Sky Ride Wit Me Top Back Bankhead Get It Hello Stand Up Guy The Breakup Told You So Undertaker Why You Wanna You Know Who At The Bar Grand Royal Heavy Chevys You Ain't Hard Big Things Poppin' (Do It) Act I (T.I.P.) Act II (T.I.) Da Dopeman Don't You Wanna Be High Help Is Coming Hurt Hustlin' My Swag My Type Raw Respect This Hustle Show It To Me Tell 'Em I Said That The Hottest Watch What You Say To Me We Do This You Know What It Is No Sweat You Ain't Fly Whatever You Like Live Your Life Swagger Like Us No Matter What Dead And Gone I'm Illy Like I Do Hero (Ft. King Of Da South Long Live Da Game Be Better Than Me Bezzle I Can't Quit Trap Muzik Bring Em Out ASAP Chillin With My Bitch Countdown Freak Though (Feat. Songs like that make you want to believe the guy will eventually get his shit together.So Close Propane 24's Be Easy Chooz U Do It Dope Boi Fresh Dope Boyz Hands Up Hotel I Can't Be Your Man I Still Luv You Why I'm Serious Let's Get Away My Air Forces Still Ain't Forgave Myself What Happened What's Yo Name Doin' My Job Let Me Tell You Something Look What I Got No More Talk Rubber Band Man T.I. comes up with something like “How Life Changed,” which sounds as seductive as it does sincere. Despite a thundering beat, “Castle Walls” is an icky bit of self-pity from a rich and famous man (“The king’s life seem glamorous/ As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs”). is just fulfilling a public-service requirement other times, it totally backfires. Sometimes, the gravitas feels perfunctory, like T.I. No Mercy is the sound of a rapper addressing his idiocy without sacrificing his swagger.
looks back ruefully at his misspent youth: “Fifteen, 16, with dreams of being cocaine bosses/In pursuit of that, we made so many terrible choices.” The featherweight “Get Back Up” is about his more recent terrible choices: “My shortcomings hit the media thanks to TMZ, the AJC and Wikipedia,” T.I. also gives voice to a theme seldom heard on rap records: shame. downshifts to a slower flow over vibrant funk on “How Life Changed,” it’s pure narcotic pleasure.īut T.I. is the one with the most well-honed pop sensibility: The salacious “Amazing” features a skeletal, head-snapping Neptunes beat and insistent hook and when T.I.
No Mercy suggests that, among A-list rappers, T.I. Luke) and an array of top-flight guests (Eminem, Kanye West, Drake). No Mercy is a sleek pop-rap record: 14 taut, catchy songs with beats from big-name producers (the Neptunes, the-Dream and Tricky Stewart, Dr. “Tell the judge if he throw the book at me, make it the Bible,” he cries on the title track. crowing about “fast money, fast cars, big diamond rings” on the bombastic “Welcome to the World,” but soon enough he’s plumbing the depths: “Hey, what the deal, world?/Yeah, it’s me again/Back before you, at your mercy/On bended knee again.” Sometimes his desire for redemption takes on gospel overtones. Performs ‘Rubber Band Man’ on ‘VH1 Storytellers’ Even in his sunniest songs, shadows creep in: bursts of conscience and regret, lyrics that chew over crime and punishment, sin and absolution. He rose to stardom in the early 2000s with a badass hustler persona and the skills to back up his bluster - a suave, sharp flow and a thick Georgian drawl lent a swinging musicality to his darkest drug-game narratives. But as bad as the missteps have been for T.I.’s life, they may have been good for his music.
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King Recaged.įor the man born Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., legal troubles have been the rule, not the exception (his rap sheet also includes a conviction for crack distribution). Then, in September, he was arrested for drug possession, and went right back to jail for violating his parole. The Atlanta rapper was released from prison in December 2009 after serving nine months on federal weapons charges. T.I.’s seventh album was supposed to be called King Uncaged.
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