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Ooh yeah that one's great too! I'm glad he's not using the obvious tracks as singles, like the ones with nelly and pharell. Those are serious low-points i think.

djdee (djdee2005), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link

The Slim Thug track ("3 Kings") he guests on with Bun B is fantastic.

Matt Chesnut (Matt Chesnut), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah...it was definitely kind of a surprise and a relief when he picked "U Don't Know Me" as an official single. almost none of the tracks with big features are even decent on a radio fodder level, esp. the Lil Kim and Neptunes ones.

Al (sitcom), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Bun-B owned 3 kings for the "curvy like a cello" line.

djdee (djdee2005), Thursday, 31 March 2005 03:28 (nineteen years ago) link

nah ti kills bun b on "three kings", even though him sucking up to houston is kind of suspect, it's just the way he kind of lopes around the beat all like "yeah i'm bigging up houston rappers but i'm not really THAT bothered", like he knows atlanta is bigger & better than houston. johnny badlees, you need to check out the song "ti vs tip", lyrically it's the reason alot of people got excited by ti in the first place. the latest cd was awful though.

scg, Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Dope TI album review saying why it's great:

http://oldboyentertainment.blogspot.com/2005/02/ti-urban-legendludacris-red-light.html

Free Pimp C, Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:03 (nineteen years ago) link

'4. What til you hear Mike Jones.
4a. If he says "who's mike jones," lolololol

'

hahahaslk

Cabaret Voltron (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:10 (nineteen years ago) link

i like urban legend, i just don't love it like urban legend, seriously an every-day album for me and maybe my favourite album of last year or the year before, whichever year it came out

s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 31 March 2005 22:20 (nineteen years ago) link

the sad thing about the neptunes song is that the rap is great. how many more songs must pharrell ruin?

Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Just keep Pharrell out of Houston and i have no problem with him.

djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link

keep Pharrell on the planet Neptune so he can stop ruining all of Earth's songs.

Al (sitcom), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:15 (nineteen years ago) link

haha dont you like the drop it like its hot remix tho?

djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:30 (nineteen years ago) link

man...I remember back when the Neptunes first came out with the Triton presets and people would joke that they were using Casio presets...but on that remix they actually ARE using Casio presets. I have those drum sounds on my keyboard! I mean it's an ok record but jeez!

Al (sitcom), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I think the reason it works so well is its so unexpectedly minimal, not in terms of the sparseness like the first one (and if anything, the textures are a lot more smudged and drippy than the original) but in terms of the smallness of the drums and bells and its lack of banging-ness.

djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

less is more and alla that, like you expect it to bang and it doesnt which somehow seems more surprising/shocking.

djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I get what you're saying but I would like to point out that you just described a Neptunes track as "unexpectedly minimal". that's like saying you touched a stove and it was unexpectedly hot.

Al (sitcom), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

that water sure came out of left field being so wet like that.

Al (sitcom), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Usually they use huge drum sounds though! From "Superthug" to "Grindin" to "Beautiful" they've always had the big-ass drum sound. I dont think its an expected direction at all, the drums are so dinky and almost swizz-y (circa 99)

djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

the drop it like it's hot remix was a brief glimmer of hope. "chef boyar-p"!!

btw, U Don't Know didn't really strike me as that surprising for a debut single, ie 'one for the streets'?

the most mystifying thing about this thread is the guy complaining about TI's "wise-ass smirk", which is my favorite thing about him. I love watching him mug for the camera!! Lil Scrappy, who I like too, doesn't have any of TI's suaveness or cool charisma (though he does have charisma of a different sort).

Cabaret Voltron (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:57 (nineteen years ago) link

well yeah, "U Don't Know Me" is a solid single. but it clearly wasn't planned as a proper a-side, since it was tacked onto the end of the "Bring Em Out" video, it was just a street single at the time but now it's the official single with its own video, which is a little bit surprising (in a good way).

Al (sitcom), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah good point, when I saw it at the end of the Bring Em Out video I thought it meant there wouldn't be a full video for it. glad I was wrong!! Bring Em Out kinda grates at this point, but UDKM still sounds pretty fresh.

Cabaret Voltron (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Friday, 1 April 2005 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Hm, I don't understand the Neps hate. Overexposure I guess. Anyway, the one on Urban Legend isn't very good, but it's not the worst song on the record, certainly.

Zed Szetlian (Finn MacCool), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:05 (nineteen years ago) link

between Nelly and Lil Kim its got some hot competition.

djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:07 (nineteen years ago) link

i don't mind the neptunes, i just wish pharrell wouldn't sing or rap or appear in videos. is that so much to ask?

Sym Sym (sym), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link

all I'm saying is that I can count on one hand the number of Neptunes beats from the past 2 years that I like as much as about 50 tracks they made before that. I don't really care if they never fell off for you, but for me they did.

Al (sitcom), Friday, 1 April 2005 03:39 (nineteen years ago) link

although to keep this on topic, the title track from T.I.'s first album, "I'm Serious", is one of my favorite Neptunes beats ever.

Al (sitcom), Friday, 1 April 2005 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link

five years pass...

I finally got I'm Serious, which was the only one I didn't have. it definitely sounds dated but I'm surprised at how good it is (and surprised at how it didn't get more critical love). I mean it's obv. not an essential album and he clearly was rough around the edges at this point but you can see a lot of what he would evolve into later. the beats are pretty good too although the later ones are better.

michangelo wuz a party d00d (San Te), Thursday, 19 August 2010 19:53 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

this story is fucking amazing

Picture me ¯\(°_°)/¯ ing (symsymsym), Friday, 15 October 2010 06:14 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah meant to post that a couple days ago when a friend told me about it. awesome!

avoyoungdro's number (k3vin k.), Friday, 15 October 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link

see you in september, homie

http://www.accessatlanta.com/celebrities-tv/t-i-to-return-683212.html

truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 October 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link

sucks, I thought it was just pot but guess not.

ಠ_ಠ (bnw), Friday, 15 October 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link

it's really hard not to go to jail when you're a multi-millionaire with every possible way to insulate yourself from situations that can get you put in jail

truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 October 2010 21:38 (thirteen years ago) link

awwwwww :(

call all destroyer, Friday, 15 October 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link

t.i. man stop being a dumbass

call all destroyer, Friday, 15 October 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link

like have someone else drive with the drugs

ಠ_ಠ (bnw), Friday, 15 October 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link

the weird thing about all of this is that t.i. comes off like the total polar opposite of the troubled celebrity addict/fuck-up who can't keep away from whatever it is screwing their life up

لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Friday, 15 October 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link

i agree--he would seem pretty together if he was not always getting arrested.

call all destroyer, Friday, 15 October 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link

it's just arrogance

truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Friday, 15 October 2010 21:48 (thirteen years ago) link

so did King Uncaged ever get leaked?

ಠ_ಠ (bnw), Friday, 15 October 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link

i agree--he would seem pretty together if he was not always getting arrested.

― call all destroyer, Friday, October 15, 2010 4:47 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yah perception is kinda lol that way -- i remember comparing gucci's seeming reckless embrace of streets vs. t.i.'s striving for excellence persona ... kinda ironic

j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Friday, 15 October 2010 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link

sadlol, fwiw

j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Friday, 15 October 2010 22:15 (thirteen years ago) link

i hope he hears the word 'incorrigible' a LOT. old southern ladies get on your job

shecky naw (tremendoid), Friday, 15 October 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link

the article says the sentence will begin at a later date, so i don't think he's going right back in, will probably get the time to put the album out and set everything up career-wise at his luxury just like with Paper Trail...i can't see how he can get away with keeping the title as King Uncaged, though.

underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Friday, 15 October 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link

http://www.ajc.com/multimedia/dynamic/00710/tiweb_710328l.jpg

― underrated bobos I have honked (some dude), Friday, October 15, 2010 5:38 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lololol

j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link

i think "king uncaged" would be a good marketing tool

truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 16 October 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qphTEjbdQwE

WHERE DID YOU GO

yung huma (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 1 October 2011 03:07 (twelve years ago) link

prison iirc

ice cr?m, Saturday, 1 October 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link

btw ti is v good @rapping

ice cr?m, Saturday, 1 October 2011 03:09 (twelve years ago) link

Uh can someone summarize whats goin on here

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link

this is the link i had the misfortune to read
https://madamenoire.com/1111720/ti-daughter/

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link

no

(•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link

Xxpost He uh goes to the OBGYN with his daughter every year on her birthday to make sure she's still a virgin.

No this is not a joke post.

Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link

don't worry though, his 15 yr old son gets to smash.

Yerac, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link

shit did not even think of that and i'm sure it's true

(•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link

Wasn't there an ep of their reality show where they found out his son already lost his

Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link

i wasn't kidding. This is true. xpost

Yerac, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:56 (four years ago) link

I had friends in high school whose dads did this

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link

I liked Paper Trail but it was all downhill after there

frogbs, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link

sorry if we're gonna keep Turrican banned someone's gonna have to fill that role

frogbs, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link

lol dude i was about to say

(•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link

how is this even legal?

ت (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link

minors do not have privacy rights when it comes to their parents in the US...?

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link

also in that link posted above it explicitly says that a waiver is signed by the daughter

Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link

Though i assume there's coercion involved.

Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:24 (four years ago) link

of course she did it's not like he can hold whatever financial support he provides over her head or anything

(•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link

it's a "purity test" that has absolutely no health benefit which is why the WHO calls it a human rights abuse. I don't even think I ever even had a hymen.

Yerac, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link

"she don't ride no horses doc cmon"

Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:26 (four years ago) link

I first saw that "T.I." was trending on Twitter, then a handful of vague tweets referring to "hymen". Didn't imagine they would be disgustingly linked like this.

soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:28 (four years ago) link

minors do not have privacy rights when it comes to their parents in the US...?

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, November 6, 2019 1:19 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

also in that link posted above it explicitly says that a waiver is signed by the daughter

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, November 6, 2019 1:20 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, so she has no privacy rights as a child and signs a waiver as an adult. but how are doctors allowed to do an inspection of a child's sexual organs, with no rationale related to health whatsoever?

ت (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link

So this is what T.I. meant when he said he was “wild as the taliban”

— Desus Nice (@desusnice) November 6, 2019

ت (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link

always used to think that, other than the seven felonies, T.I. was more down to earth than the other south rappers. welp, guess not.

Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link

what an absolute psycho

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link

I hear hew as on Alex Jones recently. lotta rappers like to go tehre tho

Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link

omg!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaWIxaQlXqg

Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link

tfw when someone gets cancelled but it reminds you they made some good music and you start jamming it

cryborg (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link

between this and Kanye's MAGA chuddery/ Jesus bullshit all the southern baptists are going to have to reassess their opinions on "gangster rap"

A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Thursday, 7 November 2019 00:22 (four years ago) link


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