Note: I wrote this review for my college newspaper by combining prevoius elements that I wrote for Real Fresh with new material. I decided that I liked what I had written for my earlier entry and that material was fresh material to my reading audience here at school.
Sorry kids. Until just a few weeks ago, I believed, much like yourselves, that I would have T.I.’s much anticipated sixth studio album in my hands for the opening day of school, but that didn’t happen. Paper Trail was originally scheduled for an August 12th release date, but due to the number of tracks that T.I. was working on while on house arrest, and the artist’s quest for perfection with his rhymes, this one took just a little longer. The name, Paper Trail, refers to the written word style of rapping that T.I. is using on this album, a style that he had abandoned after his debut album, I’m Serious, released in 2001. About the album, in an interview given to MTV, T.I. says “It’s intense and insightful; it’s gonna shake up the game and it’s me at my best.” Well, as T.I. points out in “56 Barz,” the intro track to the album, “the wait’s over, homie.”
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