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[SPEAKER_00]: we got the song of 2026 courtesy a t-i-p a-k-a-t-i who is gonna be the subject of today's episode of the dissected jazes
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, we are always on the hunt, generally for the song with a summer, but somebody that likes to make a music video mix of every song that was popular the year, I always keep an eye open on what could be the song of the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And based on what I've scouted the boundaries of what we got this year, this song right here, let them know by TI, might top them all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're a sports fan, you're probably very familiar with the song because it is often used as
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we're in the NBA finals and the score is 87 to 93 as we head to the fourth quarter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Herd this one all through the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: College football, you kidding me?
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[SPEAKER_00]: This song's got college football anthem written all over it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It sounds like a song that makes me think of a college band from the south, jamming midfield and halftime show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just kidding it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The entire vibe of college football, the pre-game, the post-game, grabbing the gold post down, ripping them off and walking them to the nearest by lake so everybody could cut a piece of gold post.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As the time, they saw Kentucky State beat Florida A&M, that one faithful Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or they might get drunk that night and forget it either way, good times had by all on college Saturday season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you listen to the last episode, you know, I'm a big fan of this time of your sports season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as I promised in that one, we're getting back to music and there's multiple reasons that we could celebrate TI this week, because not only does he possibly have the gem of 2026, but it is also his birthday week, that's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Bring it in for him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not a lot of good birthday songs out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got to say 50 cent even though just an opening line It still stands the test of time as arguably the best birthday jam get end the rest of the song has nothing to do with birthdays It is hard discussed in episode 37 when we did cover 50 cent in the club But get out of here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Clip for Joseph Harris Jr. AK-A-T-I-A-K-A-T-I-P
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[SPEAKER_00]: was born on September 25th, 1980 which means we are celebrating and we're doing it by gem into his trademark song of the year and let them know is just vintage TI.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What I love about this guy is he has a way with words that southern style that just runs through lyrics.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't even matter what he's saying but he is saying stuff this song lyrics are real basic Running through the trucker flag running through the red light 12 catch me gunna won't pull it until I'm dead, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know just classic TI shit just flexing the king life like he does But the way he speeds through lyrics makes everything flow succinctly often referred to as the king of the south
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[SPEAKER_00]: So what I want to do today in honor of TI and his birthday and for perhaps providing the jam of 2026 I want to give a general little career retrospective run through some of his most classic jams and give a light backstory on what makes him low key or perhaps high key.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of the most important members of hip-hop of the past several decades and let's start here
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is arguably one of the most important rappers to put the South on the map.
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[SPEAKER_00]: T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: he comes from Atlanta and I would argue that the most influential Atlanta rappers out there was definitely outcast, who crushed it all through the 90s.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, growing up they were my favorite rappers and
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you ask me who my favorite musicians are to this day, I still might answer outcast because that's a question you stop thinking about with a hard answer after you turn like 15.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Up until then, the answer was outcast.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I always just stick to that and everybody ever asked me, who's your favorite artist?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I always just still say, probably outcast because that was the answer the last time I really like, sus the answer that out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, outcast represented hard for Atlanta at a time when Atlanta had
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[SPEAKER_00]: had no representation in the hip-hop scene, and really helped pioneer an era of Southern hip-hop that was about to take over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We had Lil Wayne come out of New Orleans, UGK out of Texas, Natalie in the St. Ludetix out of St. Louis, three, six Mafia out of Memphis, Master P and no limit also coming out of New Orleans, and then you had T-I, and by the early 2000s, the South had
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[SPEAKER_00]: got a thorough ludicrous out there too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of Atlanta, in arguing the most famous hip hop show of all time, the source of words, I was in 96 and 97, right in the midst of the East versus West, wrap wars.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That took over the entire show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tensions were flaring.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People started talking shit on the microphone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every single time they're on stage, it's literally the height of the East West beef.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But guess who wins?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Best wrap artists of the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Outcasts and you know a man Andre 3000 who is pictured over my right shoulder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They both are.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're both pictured Outcast hardware presented over here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what he said when he got to the mic Try to cool tensions, but also let him know the South is here in the South got something to say and a young T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: who started rapping at the age of eight
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Gardner, the nickname tip from his father, I don't know why, sometimes if you're pops, lays down a nickname on you and you just run with it and he took it, turned that in TIP, eventually when it really went off, shave that down to T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the South had a new star.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now what he was mostly known for at the beginning was just being a hustler and that started when he was young, just hustling the streets of Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And while he was establishing his hip-hop career was also really
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[SPEAKER_00]: Really making his money selling drugs, and that's where he developed the idea of the rubber band man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What he would do, he would pull rubber bands on his arms, and that represented that he had that good, and he was making stacks from it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stack and rubber bands on his arm to send a message.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And let me tell you something at that time, that was a look.
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[SPEAKER_00]: that I used to see all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'd see NBA players put in rubber bands on their arm.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You'd see, oh, I'm using the street with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know if it's TI, it started it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But as a result, he caught a nickname of rubber band man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when his first album that really hit, he had a 2001 album, first come out, called I'm Serious, a peaked in 98 on the Billboard charts.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But his next album, 2003, called Trap Music,
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's where he really left his first mark on the hip hop community, and fittingly is first-hand I really put him on the map, was called Rover Band Man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's check it in there for a mix.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was Robert Benman and I got to say when that song came out I was never a big fan of it myself Pretty basic to me, but it does have a very signature sort of early mid 2000s hip-hop sound You know, it was kind of like a joyous beat to it, but like not too intricate of a rhyme or rap to it But he's still making statements and that's more than I could actually say about modern hip-hop I'm always gonna throw jobs at modern hip-hop every time I run through these
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's gonna happen, but he took what he was known for in the streets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I put it on Is a real first record that put him out there, but even though that song didn't necessarily do a whole lot for me at the time There's another song that he came out with that same year 2003 that I am immediately through I'm one of my mixed cities and became incredibly familiar with because this one got me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hi Take it away, tip young guy
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, let's get a while.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'll say, you should get a roll on the other side.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go get a roll on the other side.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, Mr. Brown, what do you think I was thinking of?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, I don't know what you're thinking of me.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's right, TI represented this with a classic Southern look.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You love that kind of hat barely tilted on the top of his head look, but in this video he's got like one of the giant white suits with like the big collar.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're back in like the really mid 2000s.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The look was like having those giant button-up shirts that he would like wear to the club But it was like kind of it would be open down the front.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe have a shirt underneath it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe put a chain on top of it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was guilty of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna lie But T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got it combined with like the suit look going on and it looks like classy in a southern way like it just fits him
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a jazzy fay who was everywhere at this time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even sure what label that was But jazzy fay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We just wanted those producers that got himself in all the videos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He had the field mob who made jams back then and Of course Sierra and then TI and he just is he
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[SPEAKER_00]: found his way into the videos, he's just that was what producers did at the time, but anyways, I'm from 2003, 2004 was then he really left, I feel like a mark on pop culture, but really that his mark had already been left because 2003 album called Trat Music.
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[SPEAKER_00]: very little known term at the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And although I don't think the music in his album is really what became known as trap music because when trap music became, if we look at like maybe like 2008 to 2011, 12 era, trap music was about as popular.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like that genre of music has anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it became what exactly TI's style of music and body.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but he was the one that put the term on the map and you could argue a lot of people would that he started the entire trap music industry so we'll give him credit for that I will give a tip of my slightly tilted hat that's not fully on my head in honor of TI but 2004 that's when we're really starting to talk about when TI is stamping his name on the industry
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[SPEAKER_00]: He comes out with an album called Urban Legend, and then gets this one out there, that if you live through 2004, you heard this song on reps.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Look, whether this song was your jam or not, you know, at some point in 2004 or the next five years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You heard this at some party and it got your shoulders moving.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be honest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this is when
T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: crossed over to like, okay, everybody knows T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: jams now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Household name, and I got to say about the first line of the song, everybody has wrapped the first words of this song at some point, and I never actually knew what we were saying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think anybody else did either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I actually looked up the lyrics now, 20, 26 to finally figure out, what are the JZ lines say right there?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because we know the first words, played one more time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Bring a mouth, bring a mouth, bring a mouth, bring a mouth It's hard to yell when the bad rills in your mouth come on What do you think he said?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I took guesses when I was a kid, but I never really I was like, oh, a bad rills in your mouth I don't know what that is, but that's what it sounds like No, bear rills in your mouth Like the barrels in your mouth Kind of dark Shick up dark immediately, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd you start there, Jay-Z
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[SPEAKER_00]: Talking about bring them out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is like a upbeat party jam.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This sounds like a song that the Charlotte Hornets could enter in an NBA game and everybody We get hyped for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna start with that, but you know what because he made it so difficult to understand what he was saying Nobody ever believed it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody says barrels like that Jay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's fine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So 2004 T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is here T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is making hits T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: throws this jam in there while he's at it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So as you could see, he's got a signature sound, he's about his hard-hitting beats and yeah, his flow's killed though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You could never deny the flows that T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: brought to the table.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And like I said, Putin, the South on the map, by this time, 2004,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was no East vs West thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That shit was done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody was even talking about that beef anymore.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And part of the reason was because the South had came so hard that they couldn't be denied.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All those artists that I said earlier, they had registered on the map and they were just part of the hip-hop scene now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The South had something to say and people were listening now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: did not shy away from representing his part and bringing Southern hip-hop up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, he started referring to himself as king, specifically king of the south.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, his 2006 album, the next album that he dropped, was simply called,
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[SPEAKER_00]: King.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He went full embrace on it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In some people, they rubbed him wrong way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Specifically Lil Flip, who had been around the southern hip-hop scene.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He took issue with that and they had a beef that extended for years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, one time, he was on a local radio station in Houston, which is where Lil Flip was from.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He calls him out and says, I know where he hangs out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's in Cloverland.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going there after I get off this show and I'm going to go approach him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then he did and a scuffle breaks out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's murky on the details of exactly what happened there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But probably coulda got in a whole lot worse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Fortunately, nothing too bad actually ended up coming out of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's how hip-hop was back in the day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, you had to like uphold your rep. TI wanted to call himself the king of the south little flip took issue with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's like, alright, I'm gonna come see you about this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There beef went on for years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: wasn't until 2020 where Lil Flipp talked about how it was a record producer named Jay Prince that actually got them together in a room and like silently squashed the beef over a decade later.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: knew if you're gonna go ahead and run around and you're gonna call yourself the king of the South, stake that claim to the point where you put it on the name of your album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna have to defend your territory and he was ready to do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what else he was ready to do is keep putting out jams and the king of
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[SPEAKER_00]: Arguably his best work to date, including this one right here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All entrance music.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All these songs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They can all be jam as entrance songs, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think it could be argued that this is the most T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: sounding song of all of them right here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like this is just the sound of T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you want me to play one jam but I'm like, what is T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: song?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got a verse for you later that I think is the ultimate T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: verse, but this one right here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, for an album is called King.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Giving regal hip-hop vibes and it's not... That was probably the one that got most play off that album, but for me, it was all about this one right here.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Vibes up here.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear me?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Can you hear me?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now that is definitely a song cast with jamming 2 in 2006.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I gotta say T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He knows how to run some mid-2000s hip-hop, doesn't he?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, this song was gonna strike a chord with me because it runs a sample of some classic 90s dance music that I was well familiar with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By an artist that we actually covered in our 1994 summer on the beach series episode with a number 5 jam Crystal Waters, and if I'm gonna play T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: covering it,
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I got to actually play the original song that I came from, Crystal Waters, Gipsy Woman, get yourself in the mix.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because she can't join her day I wouldn't be right without her makeup She's never gonna make her make her She's just like you and me, but she's homeless She's homeless As she stands there
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll let me tell you something I love about music.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Can I just say this?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love about music.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're listening to the OG version of a dope beat after listening to the remix sample version of a dope beat, and they both make you move, but so differently, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: In shoulders, they just know what speed to move at.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They completely correlate with which type of music you're listening to, and you could be in one move for one, and then the second you play the other one, you're like, oh, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, I'm gonna move for this now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Run this!
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the beauty of music, totally different genres, and this is why I love some good producers of where to sample from.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You hear this crystal water song right here, the Gypsy Woman.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you got a good ear for your like, that could be a dope hip hop beat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Give that one to TI.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know whole crush it and guess what he did, that song peaked at number four on the R&B hip hop, Billboard charts in the year 2006.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he was running
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that was nowhere near even his like most popular song, but I would argue that's right up there That's that's at least top two maybe three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let them know given it a good battle Sometimes you might want to hear a little separation from one of the song first gets you hype to know where it actually stands in the long Skate of an artist arsenal of jams why you want to I think up to that point probably my favorite TI song
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[SPEAKER_00]: But then, digging into the whole TI versus TIP concept, where TI was one personona, TIP is a original persona, or where do they meet, you know, how we answered that question, 2007 album.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm a name at TI versus TIP, that's right, they're going to war, they're going to battle!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Illustrated beautifully in the music video of his top hit of that album in which he actually has two versions of himself going face to face head to head doing push-ups against each other doing stuff that you would do if you were facing your own Persona with a slightly different name with one letter off, but for some reason that P made all the difference in This one called big shit
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[SPEAKER_04]: We're in the hands of what you've heard We say to you, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we go, here we go, here we
go Here we go, here we go, here we go Here we
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to call it after I run through these songs again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That song actually just may be jump up, start getting my hype on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna claim it, TI, you know, he's the king of, he is the king of hype Southern music.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he's the best at.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Little Chris, he makes a good case.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll give him that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He still has Southern hospitality, which is right up there with any song.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We got to have, but there's something about the way TI's tracks come in that actually just make you want to like,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Enter through a tunnel for a big game for a big fight like your entering the arena, you know, or even just start your day Hey, guess what my workshop starts at 8 a.m. and it's 655 I gotta get myself waking up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I could put some coffee on the pot, but you know what else I can do You know it else works to get me and my day started on the hype note.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just hit play on this
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[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, start your day on that note, start your day on some TI.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Start your day on some tea, I pay that'll get you through the drive to work and then you know like 30 minutes in your shift You'll be like, oh, it's not as cool as I hate myself up for you walking by gladis and accounting here like good morning gladis Hope you had a good weekend You're like yeah, I guess I did you're having conversation about the weather It whatever your job is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're all like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's how they all start, but they drive to work though The drive to work
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying that, I'm saying it!
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what that song actually reminds me of when I first hear it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That same year, uh, ESPN was doing a big tournament where they said, who's now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember like LeBron James was in their Steve Nash, David Beckham, Roger Federer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Think of any 2007 Kobe and they were like, who's now?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it was a combination of their flexion on pop culture, plus they're winning on the court.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tim Duncan, uh, Peyton Manning, Sean Alexander.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People like that, if you had to be there in 2007,
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[SPEAKER_00]: These were the fools getting hyped up and I remember every time they ran that it was a tournament that was like a fun idea But they actually ran through like a whole like 64 person bracket and they just ran into the ground because they had it on every night and they had the guys ranked You know seated and of course Who was picking the winners?
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[SPEAKER_00]: ESPN was picking the winners.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So of course, they're gonna like choose the one over the eight and you're just gonna end up with the ones in the final four and stuff And they really should have just done it as like a highlight different people that are now instead of making a whole tournament about it
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[SPEAKER_00]: The point is, every single time they ran that segment which they did for what felt like months, you know, it's song they played, let me give you a hint.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it really wasn't that the best call, the song was perfect for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It wanted me to know who was now, who's next.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you who was now in 2007, it was T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: N.T.I.P, they were both rep and heart.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Running, train on a hip hop industry at this point, that crown that he had fit himself for, he had a good case for it, but here's the thing, at that time, there was a real top runners in hip hop game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't think anybody at any point was declaratively saying,
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[SPEAKER_00]: T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: was the king of hip-hop other than probably his circle you know Kanye was killing of the time 50 cent was still running things little Wayne was in there ludicrous J.Z.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Snoop still had something to say you know there was just a lot of talent in the industry at that time and I miss it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I miss years like 2007 and hip-hop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eminem was on his comeback tip, so point it was he was in the mix though, and if you weren't convinced with that album, guess what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're the third year in a row he came out with another album that couldn't be denied, and that was called paper trail.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I feel like I'm case-to-case, I'm setting up all these songs, but when you're covering an artist like TI, and he had so many influential memorable songs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to actually call him out, including this one,
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[SPEAKER_04]: You can get it my dear by me You know I hold your feet And I swear Yeah, I don't want to show I need you I don't want to show you
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying you can't deny it this point.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is like a five-year run where if you go to any party you're probably gonna hear some T.I At least once they're in the night and
though most people might not agree that he was the king He could lay claim to king of the south of the world.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I will say low-wain was out there doing his thing a heart at this time, so
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[SPEAKER_00]: stiff competition on that one and even castle got swept up and I remember I had this song right here on one of my mixes and you're back in the day people might still do this I don't know but I remember I had this song right here on a CD and his verse remember earlier I teased it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I said there was a verse that was as TI as it gets and it was from this song right here And I put it on the CD because I used to just run this song while I'd be driving my car And I was like I got to rewind it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really want to learn that verse because T.I
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I'm gonna stop it right there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know I could have already gotten to the TIverse at this point, but I wanted to make a point that I did not want to hear DJ Khaled's whole intro.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I had already heard too much of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, DJ Khaled has a way of making songs like just less cool, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna try to skip ahead to the part when TI comes in, which was literally three seconds probably after I stopped it, but my little diet trip, but throw in here was more important.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's do that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go!
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[SPEAKER_04]: Man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man, man
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just slays every second of that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The way he fits so many words in and he just makes them all fit like a damn puzzle made by an artist meant to do this shit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you didn't have to put a crown on his head, put it on there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After I heard that verse, I was like, put it on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The whole rest of this song I was like, yeah, it's okay, but that verse right there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I just remember he's just listening to my car all the time I'd be like, wait, go back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Go back to that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to hear it again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Starting at land of the spirit out with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi on the North Carolina, Philadelphia, Virginia.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean...
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[SPEAKER_00]: You realize when you're actually trying to run it back and like trying to keep up with T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like how skill he actually was as a lyricist and he's saying things it might not be like the introspection that like no, this used to bring to it or like some of the rappers like two-pock in the 90s that I grew up with but still He's telling you his backstory all the places he's been and stuff in let him know
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not really saying anything introspective.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's just telling you about how we runs the streets quick, but he makes it flow effortlessly and it just works and that's something hip-hop style.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I appreciate him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be shocked if you're listening to this and you're not aware of every song that I've already played.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the thing when you really recognize TI's catalog.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It has to be respected.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One more song in 2008.
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[SPEAKER_00]: From the paper trail, I've got to play because 2008 would not be 2008 if you didn't throw this song in there as well.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You said you dressing up that part just left you right I was on my bed by chase side just left me right Number mile we're hey to say norm till they fade away Amazing day I'm great but after all the game I gave away Safe to say I hate the way but you can't get paid the day It's still be wasted days away now That's another thing
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[SPEAKER_00]: You hear Rihanna in this one, and by this point, even by years previous, any big star in the game had to have a T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: track, like people wanted to work with them, just in Timberlake, Eminem, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Drake, Destiny's Child, just like everybody in hip-hop was like, gotta get a piece that King crowned.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is riding high in 2008 and then trouble hits where he actually ends up arrested for weapons charges and this would actually be something that was consistent throughout T.I.s.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not only career but whole life because he also ran into trouble when he was kid coming up in Atlanta and he continued to have
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[SPEAKER_00]: Other occurrences that really have somewhat plagued his career a little bit in the last decade I would say still kept dropping albums regularly But then he's also doing like a reality show with his wife tiny and ever watched it And those kind of shows down to it for me, but he was in the mix, but that's why it's so good to actually hear him come back in 2026 with arguably the jam in the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's one more song that I do want to play and that's just because it's a song
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[SPEAKER_00]: to make a little blurred lines.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you were there in 2013, not only were you familiar with this jam, we were familiar with this video, and when it came on, you'd be like, all right, let's watch this for a second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And guess what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It has been dissected, previously on the dice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's episode 55.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I did my pre-researchist time to figure out what episode deep catalog everybody So that brings us to today Calvin Joseph Harris A-K-A-T-I-A-K-A-T-I-P The supper claim King of the South and after listening to that catalog, he makes a case and let us not forget that he also may have dropped the jam in
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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's go, let's make it Timmy, which I need a camera phone Timmy here, didn't hold the set of phone, better no
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm on the hip-a-sa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
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[SPEAKER_00]: So before we close it out, I'm gonna go ahead and give my slaps and snaps.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For the new T.I.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jam, let him know, and I'm gonna go ahead and give it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, I mean am I gonna do generous with the five slabs?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Am I gonna be getting two generous with the five slabs in 2026?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like I've done more, five slabs in 26 than I have and the entire rest of the history of the dissected DJs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I can't claim this to be the potential sham of 2026 and then his whole discography and then not lay it down with five slabs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's it for this round.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tip of the slightly tilted on top of my head,