Album Review: T.I. – Paper Trail

The king of the south is back at again and he is not playing. “Paper Trail” is T.I.’s sixth studio album and possibly his best since his debut “I’m Serious”. The album is entitled “Paper Trail” in reference to the fact that this is the first time he has written his lyrics down since “I’m Serious”, after his debut album he had adopted the popular trend of not writing his lyrics down in the model of such great rappers as Biggie and Jay-Z.

In stores now, so go get it!!

The album kicks of with the blistering “56 Barz”, a hot track that finds T.I. in rare form. This track is just T.I. spitting for about 3 minutes with no hook, thus the name. Next, he kills on it “I’m Illy” letting everybody know that in his own words he “runs the city”.

Lil Wayne Dies from Syrup, It’s Not True…But It Could Be

Note: As of the writing of this article, nothing has happened to Lil Wayne, this post is more to discuss the potential consequences of the current lifestyle he chooses to lead.

First off I want to say I am a huge Weezy fan. Secondly, I know that Wayne isn’t the only rapper out there that is addicted to syrup, but he is the most well known. I battled with myself for a while as to whether or not I should post the recipe for “syrup”, but the fact that I simply did a quick Google search of “rapper syrup recipe” and found it, I decided if someone wants to find the recipe they could. The recipe for syrup is different depending on where you are but the basics are:

Promethazine w/Codeine syrup
Any fruit flavored soda
A jolly rancher

For the record I don’t condone this stuff, and it WILL kill you.

For the life of me I can not see why the people around him aren’t doing more to help him get off this stuff. I mean smoking a lot of weed is bad and it has side effects but I don’t know when the last time I heard of someone dying from smoking too much weed. While I don’t condone any kind of drug use, I would rather he be smoking too much than drinking this stuff. I mean Weezy says that he is the “greatest rapper alive” and save for the part of me that loves T.I. I tend to agree with him, the question is how long will he be alive if he continues to abuse this stuff.

We Are Not As Divided As Our Politics Suggest..Obama or McCain??

I usually stay out of politics but I feel as if these are rare times we are living in. If you would have told me ten years ago that we would have a women and an African American man as the two leading candidates for the democratic nomination for the President of the United States I would have probably laughed in your face. As I sit here today we are on the verge of perhaps the greatest change in American politics since President Kennedy was elected in 1961.

Barack Obama represents a chance for this nation to take a turn for the better. I will not argue with the Republicans that say he isn’t as experienced as Senator McCain, he is not. But as I always say, who is really ever ready and to be the President of the United States. What this election will be about to me is the issues. Where do these candidates stand on healthcare, the war, and education just to name a few.

My problem with McCain is

Album Review: Day 26.. Diddy Got It Right This Time

On the whole I like Puffy but his record as far as making real stars hasn’t been so good as of late, well with that whole “The Band” debacle. Diddy has always been a great judge of talent but I was starting to think he had lost the magic. Then I saw MTB4 and while impressed I still wasn’t sure.

Then I heard the album. I went out and picked it up on the day it dropped and it has been in my car ever since. I mean this is a HOT album. When it comes to music, especially a group I am always skeptical and combine that with the TV show and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.