As far as putting a lot of songs together, a motherfucker taking their life experiences and telling stories from their perspective, and still having the material to be jamming like a motherfucker, I don’t think nobody could do that shit the way I do it. I feel like you’re only as good as your last display. With this album, it sounds like you’re showing people that you still have a lot to say, and you shouldn’t be counted out.Īny motherfucker counting me out can’t count.
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Still, it was an illuminating conversation, touching on the works in his back catalogue he’s most and least proud of, why he pivoted to reality TV after prison, reasoning with Kanye, and hip-hop’s north-south divide. Early in our conversation, he spied me wearing a Yankees fitted and steeled himself for another trying conversation with uninformed northern hip-hop media - an impression I unintentionally fueled when, in the lightning round of his impromptu southern rap aptitude quiz, I mixed up the names of Big Hawk and Fat Pat, brothers and members of Houston music icon DJ Screw’s Screwed Up Click.
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(short for “The Legend Is Back Running Atlanta”), out today, which, like the rest of Tip’s late-career output (see: Trouble Man, Paperwork, and Dime Trap), is still full of fire, if less overtly commercial than the radio-ready Paper Trail. I spoke with T.I., who recently turned 40, this week about his journey in advance of his 11th album, The L.I.B.R.A. He’s also a podcast host ExpediTIously With Tip “T.I.” Harris features probing interviews with musicians, activists, and comics. Through his label, Grand Hustle Records, he helped build careers for B.o.B., Iggy Azalea, and Travis Scott, and put out records from a list of southern rap legends including Killer Mike, Trae tha Truth, and 8ball and MJG, all the while charting respectably with solo albums like 2012’s Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head and 2014’s Paperwork. and Tiny: The Family Hustle, a long-running VH1 reality show detailing the couple’s wholesome, colorful home life with seven children. committed himself to turning his life around, following earlier roles in films like ATL and American Gangster with T.I.
The Atlanta rapper, actor, and entrepreneur born Clifford Harris first rose to prominence as perhaps the brightest star of the southern rap explosion of the 2000s, thanks to the brusque, quick-witted lyricism driving hits like “Bring Em Out” and “What You Know” and the pop smarts on display in “Live Your Life” and “Whatever You Like.” The vivid narratives detailed in songs like “Dope Boyz” and “Doin’ My Job” came from experience Harris ran into trouble with the law as a youth selling drugs and spent long stretches of his career in the prison system, culminating with a 2009 stint on federal gun possession charges and a stay in 2010 after he and his wife, Xscape singer Tameka “Tiny” Cottle-Harris, were stopped on Sunset Boulevard and ecstasy was found in the car. is a jack of all trades and he wants you to know it.
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