Frankly, I probably wouldn't have gone to the trouble of downloading TI's new mixtape Fuck Da City Up if I hadn't read the phrase "trunk rattlers" over at the Trilluminati.net. I judge a book by a cover, mixtape, too, though not as much as novels, and this artwork is goofy looking. Admit it. It's not that it's wack, although I suppose it is, but it's just goofy, like TI is a dad trying to be cool...except he's TI so I guess that makes him automatically cool.
Anyway, I was at the gym the other night, and practically dying for some reason, so I figured that if I were to die, or fall off the box I was stepping on to, I might as well be listening to TI's new thang. I mean, why not? Better than BAYTL.
Arguably, T.I. created the whole trap music phenomena with the sound on his Trap Muzik album (I think I read that somewhere?), and I really love how he took it back for the streets on Fuck Da City Up. He sounds hungry and aggressive again, and I really like it.
Plus, he has great beats, the trappiest of the trap, and all the usual suspects found on any reputable trap album, including Jeezy, 2 Chainz (whose appeal I don't understand), Young Dro, Future, Trouble. More surprisingly, like he had some type of Harry Potter charm, T.I. conjured up a Pimp C verse, and production from the elusive Dr. Dre. Like, did his patronus bring that back to him? What would T.I.'s patronus even be?
I can't not bring this up, considering I've already thrown in some Harry Potter allusions. I literally can't believe that T.I. has a song named "Harry Potter," and that's it's produced by Hit Boy, ...
