ARTIST: T.I.
TITLE: King
LABEL: Grand Hustle/Atlantic/Warner
GENRE: Rap
GRABBER: EAC (Secure Mode)
ENCODER: Lame 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
QUALITY: 191 Kbps Avg / 44.1 KHz / Joint Stereo
PLAYTIME: 1h 19min 22sec total
SIZE: 108.4MB
RELEASE DATE: 2006-04-12
RIP DATE: 2007-10-15
Track List
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01. King Back (Produced By Just Blaze) 4:12
02. Front Back (Feat. UGK) (Produced By 3:42
Mannie Fresh)
03. What You Know (Produced By DJ Toomp) 4:34
04. I'm Talkin' To You (Produced By Just 5:40
Blaze)
05. Live In The Sky (Feat. Jamie Foxx) 5:46
(Produced By Keith Mack)
06. Ride Wit Me (Produced By Keith Mack) 4:04
07. The Breakup (Skit) 1:56
08. Why You Wanna (Produced By Khao) 3:37
09. Get It (Produced By Swizz Beatz) 3:41
10. Top Back (Produced By Mannie Fresh) 4:42
11. I'm Straight (Feat. B.G. & Young 6:35
Jeezy) (Produced By Nick Fury)
12. Undertaker (Feat. Young Buck & Young 4:13
Dro) (Produced By Khao)
13. Stand Up Guy (Produced By Khao) 3:16
14. You Know Who (Produced By Tony Galvin 2:54
& Travis Barker)
15. Goodlife (Feat. Pharrell & Common) 4:28
(Produced By The Neptunes)
16. Hello (Feat. Governor) (Produced By 3:34
Khao)
17. Told You So (Produced By Keith Mack) 4:22
18. Bankhead (Feat. P$C & Young Dro) 4:28
(Produced By DJ Toomp)
19. Drug Related (JP Bonus Track) 3:38
(Produced By Chad "Wes" Hamilton &
Ryan Press)
Release Notes:
Released the same week as ATL, his big-screen debut, T.I.'s fourth album isn't
the leap forward he's been threatening to make, but it does carry the best set
of productions he has been given to work with, and it guarantees that he won't
be leaving the singles charts any time soon. On a steady basis since 2003, the
MC has been responsible for some of the most memorable rap singles of the
decade. "24's," "T.I. vs. T.I.P.," "Rubberband Man," "Bring Em Out," "U Don't
Know Me," and the underappreciated "ASAP" amount to a run as impressive as
anyone else's during the same years, and the streak continued with King's first
official single. The slow victory lap that is "What You Know" is T.I.'s greatest
track yet, a Toomp production with high and low synthesizer notes -- all of
which sound like severely pitched-down synthetic horn lines -- drawn out to the
point where they're practically bleeding into one another; T.I. similarly
extends his syllables ("Just keep it very cooool, or we will bury yooou") for
maximum looming effect. The track is emblematic of the album in that T.I. is
basically saying the same things he has said many times before, but he's finding
slightly different ways to say them, and as long as he doesn't get lackadaisical
and his producers keep up, he'll be at the top of his game. The swarming
all-out-assault "I'm Talking to You" and the Rick Rubin-worthy "You Know Who"
play roles similar to that of Urban Legend's "Bring Em Out," and though neither
one is quite as swift, they add further muscle to an MC who tends to be regarded
as smooth. Some of the less energetic tracks weigh the 75-minute album down, but
"Why You Wanna" works surprisingly well, given that T.I. tends to sound out of
place when he's playing loverman and that the plangent keyboards from Crystal
Waters' "Gypsy Woman" really have no business being anywhere near a rap track.
It is frustrating that T.I. has only been refining his material since 2003's
Trap Muzik, but that has been more than enough to gradually raise his profile.
Maybe he needs a flop to spark some risk-taking. For better or worse, it doesn't
look like that will be happening anytime soon.
Didn't even know this version existed. It's not listed on wiki, nor does AMG
have any info on the extra track. Oh well, better late than never...
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