T.I. Interviews With Rhapsody…

TI recently sat down with Rhapsody and talked about everything from Jim Jones, Shawty Lo, Prison, to the loss of his Best Friend and the success of his new album.

By the sixth album, a lot of rappers seem bored or uninspired, but you’ve dropped one of the better albums in your catalog.
To be perfectly honest with you, album number five, I was bored. That’s why I tried the concept album so I’d have something to interest me, which may have gone over people’s heads in a lot of ways. So, it may have been hit or miss. This album, I was more excited about doing because it was a lingering question of whether or not I’d be around to do it.

Could be one of your last albums?
More like, if I was never inspired to do a great album before, now I am. Not necessarily being the last time, but me having something to say. With T.I. vs. T.I.P., I was just real angry. I had lost a lot of faith in the game and my purpose in the game. So most of that album I spent talking about me. Not really about hip-hop or my appreciation for hip-hop.

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