Paper Trail - TI

Clifford Joseph Harris Jr. is more well know in the entertainment industry as the rapper T.I. In fact T.I will be in prison for a year from the end of this month and I am not quite in the loop with this so he may already be in prison. The reasons for his sentence are due to weapons and possession charges and there is no point going into more detail here. Whilst under house arrest he wrote a lot of the lyrics for this album, Paper Trail. This title, Paper Trail, is due to him having written down a lot of his lyrics for the tracks on paper and well it has paid off with the album sealing the number 1 spot on its debut in America. It has been certified platinum ...  Read the complete review

"Paper Trail" is T.I.'s sixth album. If you were not aware, this Atlanta rapper was arrested late in 2007 and had been under arrest for a few months on firearm-related charges. During this period of time he decided to record an entire album, he ended up recording in excess of 50 individual tracks so you can expect qulaity for this album in so much potential material. 1. "56 Bars" T.I. doesn't mess around with any spoken introduction for this album, he gets straight inot his material, as ther is so much of it, it would be a waste to lose tracks for litte unneccesary sections. He establishes his status as a hardcore Gangsta ...  Read the complete review

Who is T.I.? 2007 saw the release of TI's fifth studio album, 'TI vs TIP', which I subsequently reviewed -- and although this album wasn't as well received as it's predecessor, 'King' -- it still topped the US Billboard and was one of the most impressive rap albums of the year. Back a year later, 'Paper Trail' is an album inspired by the fact that all the lyrics were written down on paper whilst TI was under house arrest on pending gun charges. After serving 1,000 hours of community service, TI shall be serving a year prison sentence. The initial arrest came a matter of hours before the Black Entertainment Television award ceremony, and he was charged ...  Read the complete review

T.I has always been one of those individuals who has made a lot of money, won a lot of acclaim and yet had always left me puzzled as to just how his own talent supported this high status. He has always been something of a controversial figure and in fact this album was made while a heavy prison sentence hung over him for instructing his bodyguard to buy him an arsenal of guns. However in truth it is this flirting of criminality or past criminality which adds a compelling air to some of these rappers especially those who are able to articulate and paint vivid pictures of the life they once walked within. Therefore it was fair to say that I wasn't exactly holding out too ...  Read the complete review

This is my first music album review, so please be gentle with your ratings :) I'm quite a big hip-hop/rap fan, mainly liking people such as: 2Pac, Tha Outlawz, DJ Quik, and Ice Cube. With most of these artists not releasing much music anymore, I decided that I wanted to listen to somebody new. I like Eminem and D12, but I'm not overly-bothered about The Game, DMX or 50 Cent but remembered that I liked T.I.'s verse on 2Pac's Pac's Life single. And so, with Spotify loaded-up I searched for T.I. To my surprise, T.I. is something of a rap veteran, having released 6 albums since his recording debut in 2001. I say I was surprised as I was expecting him to ...  Read the complete review