Tip trades his boundless swagger for a sarcastic, self-deprecating tone and some of his most vulnerable bars to date: All she did was stay down and have my kid / All time Just to realize I ain't shit / Such audacity that I must have / To get in men's company and slap on ass. On track, TI repeatedly beat himself up for his failures as husband and setting poor example for his kids, perhaps taking a page from Jay-Z's 2017 album, 4: 44. Fuck Up album's centerpieceis prime example of that more personal, introspective style TI goes on about.

A married man with six kids, he's dealt with his relationship struggle in the public eye. He has priorities that extend far beyond what's happening in the streets. Dime Trap is far from one-dimensional, and dives frequently into the personal life of a trap artist. What happens when he falls in love, or has his first child? He closes the track by proclaiming, just because it's trap music doesn't mean it get to be one-dimensional. On Weekend, he described the album as TED Talk for hustlers, evolution of Trap music, adding that the subgenre need not be limited to lyrics about cooking in a Trap house or dealing with police it can extend to cover any life events of a hustler's past, present or future. On TI's 10 and most recent studio album, Dime Trap, he goes further into his philosophy of what trap music isand what it can be.

The Atlanta rapperwhose 2003 sophomore album Trap Muzik formally added phrase to the hip-hop lexiconhas never been shy about using other styles in his version of Trap, adeptly blending his street raps with mainstream pop appeal in the mid-To-late 2000s with albums like King and Paper Trail. TI, one of most important artists in the foundation of Trap music, doesn't place such restrictions on his definition of Trap music. The lyrics have been mostly about selling drugs, street violence and evading 12, with other facets of the artist's life taking a back seat. It's refers to a particular breed of Southern street rap, featuring ominous synthesizer sounds, booming bass and 808 drums. For the past decade-plus, trap music has indicated particularly narrow musical aesthetic.

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