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Grammy-winning rapper T.I. has discussed channeling his anguish for the soon-to-be-released King Uncaged; specifically the pain he experienced after his father's death and other personal losses.
Speaking to an audience during a taped episode of “VH1 Storytellers” this week, the rapper revealed a few of the album’s songs.
Of the new material, the King of the South debuted the tracks “Still Ain’t Forgave Me” and “I Still Luv You,” described as a very personal track. On the introspective song, he speaks on the pain brought on by his father’s death as well as the love he has for his children, despite the fact that he became a dad at a young age. The emcee told his audience that the taping was the right time, stage and place to showcase these tunes. Speaking between songs, T.I. also touched on other aspects of his personal life, including his stint as a drug dealer and his time in prison. He also answered questions from those in attendance, sharing what he wants to accomplish in the future and where he hopes his acting and music careers will head. (Rap-Up)
Recently, T.I. talked about nearing the end of his album’s completion.
“I don’t know, we’re gonna figure that out over the weekend,” Tip said in an interview about coming up with a new single. “It’s gonna be jammin’. It’s gonna be like that. Some people wanna hear me go more ‘hood…Some people think I should go ahead and do my regular one-two and let them come back to me.” (MTV)
Prior to being delayed to an unspecified date, T.I.’s new album was originally expected to drop at the end of September.
T.I.’s upcoming album – his first since his release from prison – King Uncaged, has been pushed back to September 28. Revealed on Amazon.com, the new release date is the latest example of a Hip Hop artist whose album has dropped later than expected – a laundry list that includes the likes of Drake, Game, Diddy, Rhymefest and N.E.R.D. (Hip Hop DX)
Earlier this year, the rapper compared his project to the late Tupac Shakur‘s All Eyez on Me.
T.I. is setting the bar high for his post-prison album, King Uncaged, comparing it to Tupac’s 1996 classic All Eyez on Me, which was released months after ‘Pac got out of prison. “This is the most significant return from incarceration that the game has had since then,” T.I. says. “Just given the enormous success of that project, everyone’s expecting the same results. I just want to meet the expectations, if not surpass them.” (Rolling Stone)
Check out a recent T.I. interview down below:
True but it wasn’t only about that incident. Even if Pac didn’t got shot it would still escalate in a Eastcoast Westcoast war.
Pac getting shot in New York was the beginning of the Eastcoast West coast war. That’s when he started goiog at Bad Boy hard. If he hadn’t got robbed in New York 9 times out of 10 the whole coastal war would have never started.
The war would’ve started anyway anyway and you know that. Because if you look at how it developed it wasn’t even about that shooting incident anymore.
Back in the days there was unity. West coast artists were 1 and east coast artists were 1. Look at Game for example. He got more haters in the westcoast then the eastcoast. How many east coast artists are beefing with eachother? In that Biggie and Pac era a beef between 50 and Ja was unthinkable. Nas and Jay would’ve never be battling like that.
If you said something about an artist you had to go against his whole coast. It ain’t like that anymore.
NEW DEVELOPMENTS are saying the East/West was Orchestrated by GOV’T/FBI and FUELED MORE BY MEDIA! Remember What PAC said at the MTV AWARDS with He and Snoop together; 3/4 Days Later, He was SHOT in Las Vegas. PAC escaped DEATH MANY TIMES, MAN, it REALLY WAS HIM AGAINST THE WORLD! Suckaz even said He FAKED the NY Shooting, TOO! That DID IT TOO!
A LOT of East Coast Artists ARE BEEFING AGAINST EACH OTHER! ALL THE SHOOTINGS AND BULL IN NY/EAST! Where Have You Been? No Dis
THUG-LIFE PAC is The Greatest of all time
PAC never said biggie had anything to do with the shooting. What he did say was biggie new it was going to happen and they was supposed to be friends so he shoulda warned him about the setup
Uh, B.I.G did warn Pac.
Spot in there m8, nail on the head agree 100 percent
thats what i have been trying to tell these dumb mfs…..Pac mentioned Jimmy name as well..but he knew that was part of the game….but ya home boy not holding u down in his city was not part of the game is what his prob was.
YEZZZ!
So everybody knows who killed Pac except the police huh? smh…
This in particular is about the shooting robbery of tupac in NYC not the murder of tupac in las Vegas
it recently came out that puffy…YES PUFFY had pac killed.he paid for the hit..check youtube and type in PUFFY HAD TUPAC KILLED.
u prob believe anything YouTube tells u huh?
no its not that. a detective investigated it and is talking about the whole situation and based on the evidence thats been out there forever it makes sense…everything ties together…
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u prob believe anything YouTube tells u huh?
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People act surprised when they see this news like Pac ain’t say what happened in “Against All Odds”. … Jimmy Henchman… set me up wet me up niggas stuck me up…
AND MENTIONED HAITIN JACK, TUT; A WHOLE LOT OF THINGS AND PEOPLE EVEN DOOKY-DIDHE ROBBING BIGGIE AND OTHERS FOR YEARS; AND THEY RIDIN FO DAT! “LET MY TRUE NIGGAZ KNOW, THIS IZ THE REALIST SHHH I EVA WROTE!” “WHAT WOULD U DO IF U WAZ ME!” AGAINST ALL ODDS!
Prodigy shouldn’t be speaking on this imo. Biggie still threw sneak diss shots alolng with Puffy and Suge’s other problems with Puffy still existed. Big still got snoop and the shot at during new york video shoot. Big still got into altercation with those duck down people.
your one of the only people making sense with real facts here.. Kudos… Pac was ad Big didn’t warn him about the set up not that Biggie did it. And that Big abandoned him on the situation. Big didnt want anything to do with that trouble, he had a fam at the time and was trying to get his paper and career moving.
Another thing in 93 we gotta discuss Wolf and Suge’s homeboy that got shot and killed by Puff’s people in ATL… when people talk about those facts I will listen to you… Ron you shedding some light out here
2PAC HAD AND HAZ A FAM, TOO; BE IT NOT SEEDZ, BUT PAC KNEW WHAT FAMILY MEANS AND HOW PRECIOUS CHILDREN ARE! PAC SAID HE WAZ GON LEAVE IT ALONE UNTIL BIG DID THE SNEAKY, UNDERCOVER, PERVERTED “WHO SHOT YA” AND THATZ ONLY ONE OF 2 SONGS I KNOW FROM THIS PIG AND THATZ WHY BIG IS DEAD; WE KNOW PHOSHOO! HE WORRIED ABOUT HIMSELF WHILE TUPAC WAZ CONCERNED FOR THE WORLD! THE OPPRESSED, CHILDREN, THE LOST, THE HOPELESS! KEEP TEASIN, MANIPULATING AND MISUSING A PITBULL OR ROTTWEILER AND SEE; IF THEY DON’T BITE!
if yall add up all the pieces youll see that its true…pac knew big wasnt involved…THAT MAKES PAC A REAL TRAITOR O=IN A WAY BCUZ YOU ACCUSED YOUR HOMEBOY OF SOMETHING MAJOR WHICH CAUSED CRAZY PROBLEMS FOR HIM..
Yup.
NAW, DAT HATE-A-MENTOR NIGGA BIGGIE AND NOTHIN BUT SMUSH PUNK PUFF PIGGY SHOULDA WARNED PAC! AT THE TIME, NEITHA ONE OF THEM SPINELESS LEECHES HAD THE LOVE, THE MONEY, THE EXPERTISE, THE BEAUTY, THE POWER, THE RESPECT NOR THE CLOUT TUPAC AMARU SHAKUR HAD; PERIOD! AND FROM THE MOVIE ABOUT BIGGIE, PUFF BOOTY HATED PAC AND INTERRUPTED, INTERFERED WITH PAC AND BIG’s FRIENDSHIP; NOT WANTIN BIG TO CALL, HOLLA AT HIS “HOMIE” FOR DOOKY-DIDHE’S OWN SELFISH GAIN AND BIG WAS A PUNK FOR LETTING HIM! OOOWW!
Almighty5, agreed, although my take on it was Pac wanted to hear Biggie confirm his (Pac’s) suspicions on who it was but Biggie didn’t say shizzle!
why do you need biggie to confirm shit? you not supposed to talk on nothing that isn’t involving you.. pac knew jimmy henchman had brushed back. how come he aint go at henchman? oh wait thats right, because he was an actor! :::biggie::: “niggas is actors niggas deserve oscars”
Alf gang!!!
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It seems to me IMO jimmy henchmen was really about that life say wat u want if er1 really knew jimmy had pac killed or shot..why is he still breathing dude been walking the streets for years until recently and ain’t been touched pac got all these homies still living millions of fans and henchmen still breathing
To LIVE IN JAIL FOREVER and THEN BURN IN HELL, is THE BEST REVENGE! KEYWORD: HE IZ/WAZ A GOV’T/FBI INFORMANT! THEY PROTECT U UNTIL THE “HEAT” GETZ TO THEM! WHITE MAN’Z WORLD; been Knowing THIS FOR YEARZ, A WHITE WOMAN KNOWZ and REVEALZ! THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWZ BUT JESUS IZ COMING SOON!
Prodigy is trying to speak as an authority on a subject when he’s in the dark on the subject except for rumors that he’s heard.
Tupac never blamed Biggie for setting him up….it’s pretty explicitly stated on the 2nd verse of “Against All Oddz” and later confirmed by some of the Outlawz that Jimmy set him up. A guy actually has the jewels they stole that night and has pointed the finger at Henchmen, so what else would it take for people to know he’s the one who set him up the first time?
Pac described him pretty eloquently, he’s a government informant (I know of a few of them from my old hoods) and these guys get away with stuff like that for that reason.
Biggie knowing it was going to go down (he even admitted to warning 2Pac to watch himself, although not to warning him about who to watch himself about) would upset most people in 2Pac’s position. In addition, the Suge Knight and Sean Combs stuff dates back a couple of years before Pac even came to Death Row. Shorty B, a guy who used to work with Too $hort and was also a friend of Pac’s confirms that Combs’ guy shot down Suge’s right hand man outside of an Atlanta nightclub way before any of this spilled into the mainstream. So with Pac and Suge, you just had a teaming of forces of two guys who for some reason (maybe because their music was devoid of any message or substance for the most part) wer portrayed as the “good” guys by white media and Death Row was all “evil.”
I NEED CLARITY, WHO’S MUSIC WAS DEVOID OF ANY MESSAGE OR SUBSTANCE?.I HOPE U TALKIN BOUT THE PUFFIES; cuz U SHO AINT TALKIN BOUT DEATH ROW: PAC, SNOOP, DPG and the LIST GOES ON! I AGREED til U got down TOWARD THE END! THANKZ U. And. YEZ, THE ROW WAZ “portrayed” as ALL “EVIL!” They had the BEST Singers; Danny Boy, Jewell, Keyshia, Michele to NAME A FEW, the BEST BEATS, PRODUCERZ! ON MANY SOUNDTRACKS; like Whitney Houston(love and never FORGOTTEN), “Let’s GET THAT STRAIGHT!”
fuck prodigy lying scary ass…Quincy Jones got Tupac Shot everyone who do fucking research would fucking know Tupac was engaged to Quincy Jones daughter and Quincy didn’t want that going down unless tupac participate in that homosexual bullshit that rap music is full of now. Listen to Professor Griff or Prince Vega they both made it clear
What, now that Pac is gone, Prodigy has sooooo much to say about dude. Pac never liked u nigga. Let him rest. This dude aint got shit else to talk about?
PRODIGY HAS NOTHING TO ADD TO THIS MATTER! PAC DIDNT LIKE HIM, DIDNT ROLL WIT HIM, DESTROYED HIM AND PLENTY OTHERS, TRUTHFULLY AND LYRICALLY! HIS GRILL WAS SHUT AND SHOT WHILE PAC WAZ HERE; BUT GEZ WHAT, PAC STILL HERE AND STILL GOT RIDAHZ! EVERY WORD PAC SAID IZ/HAZ/WILL SURFACE!