Music also gives you a platform to really drill down on things that are important to you - like social justice, and even your marriage. Music allows me the opportunity to color outside the lines. My music has always been about the things I’ve been going through and experiencing. Why is it important for you to essentially put your journal to music at this point in your career? This new album … there are a lot of revelations. I feel like handling things microwave perspective … instant gratification.
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I fall back and kind of observe the full picture … and form a decision over time. I don’t really jump headfirst into things as much as I used to. The way I now respond to situations and circumstances, I think, has changed.
What’s changed for you in 15 years since Trap Muzik dropped? I was just trying to say what I felt was mindful.” “I’ve never really paid attention to who’s paying attention. Huge and impactful films, from ATL and American Gangster to Takers and the Ant-Man movies. In it, he pays homage to the music he named years ago. Others said T.I.’s work was akin to what we experience in cinema - or what we should be experiencing in media: raw, unedited looks inside of neighborhoods we came from, have family in or should simply know about.įifteen years, three Grammys and an NAACP Image Award later, T.I. Some said his work glorified the worst parts of ‘hood life. T.I.’s genre-defining second album, Trap Muzik, arrived in 2003, and the stories, about drug dealers in the trap, were set to big bass beats.
And, not surprisingly, it blew up all around the world. was a tip off the old block, as they would say around Bankhead, the Atlanta neighborhood in which he grew up. His name was T.I., a shortened version of his childhood nickname, Tip - because Clifford Harris Jr.