The title of today's blog is "Do You Believe?!" And I know some of you are thinking "Do I believe in what Rell Mac?" Well give me a second to explain the purpose of the damn blog, fucking impatient niggas. Now as I was saying, over the weekend I decided to listen to an album that I personally feel is dope, an album that has a lot of replay value because the artist was speaking from a real place. That album ladies and gents is "Trap Muzik" by Clifford "T.I" Harris. This album includes songs such as "24's", "Rubberband Man" and my personal favorite "I Still Luv You." Dope album hands down, there's no arguing that!
Now if you're like me, on Jan 1st 2012 you couldn't wait to turn your stereos up to Section 8, WIC check levels to hear "Fuck Da City Up" T.I's most recently released mixtape. There were trailers on every high profiled blog site, tweets flying left and right, shit I even think the nigga had a commercial on BET. Well maybe not a commercial but you get my point, everyone knew Clifford was dropping a tape at the start of the year. Now I don't know what city T.I had plans on fucking up but it damn sure wasn't mine. To hell with fucking up a city I don't think that nigga damaged a zip code, but hey that's just my opinion.
I totally understand the goal and purpose behind T.I's new mixtape. The purpose of the tape was to bring that "A-Town" vibe back to mainstream hip-hop and T.I was going to be the captain of that ship. I don't think T.I reached his goal with his newest mixtape because just 5 days following Ross dropped "Rich Forever" and 98% of you niggas frisbeed that T.I tape. So here is where I purpose my question, "Can we and should we still believe in T.I musically?"
We are all aware of T.I's legal issues from having more guns than Aaron from "Money Talks" to having ecstasy pills in the back of the Maybach. Now we all heard the multiple apology songs and just recently I heard T.I was going back to that "Trap Muzik" vibe on his next album. Now if you haven't been living under a rock for the past few years you know what "The Trap" is. If you know you know if you don't then ask someone, I'm not providing blogs and being ya urban dictionary fuck I look like. But on "Trap Muzik" T.I spoke on selling drugs, guns, just the everyday struggle of a nigga living in poverty. The album was believable and real from my understanding and like I stated above it was a nice album. So my next question is "Do you think its necessary for T.I to go that route?"
If he does go that route its going to be hard for us the consumer to believe in the lyrics because clearly he isn't doing that anymore. He isn't selling drugs or living in the projects anymore, the nigga has a TV show on VH1 now. And just by judging from his last piece of work "Fuck Da City Up" his music is struggling, so can we and should we believe that the "King Of The South" still holds the crown or did he lose the crown over the years he went to prison?
Should we still believe in T.I musically? @ me for input on the blog @Rell_Mac
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