When was TI in his prime?

[Blackking]

T.I. - ASAP (video) - YouTube



This, Dem Boyz and Hustla Muzik were my favourite songs in 05

i was trying to hate on south music sooo hard back then.. This n1gga was killin sh1t so hard that I just had to stfu.

He hasn't been that consistent and real since. That was his prime..... There was never a question, like there was with other south rappers, about his actual spitting ability.

 

[JustCKing]

In terms of the overall quality of his music, T.I. was in his prime from '03-'05 (Trap Muzik and Urban Legend). Commercially, T.I. was in his prime from '08-'09 (Paper Trail).

 

[the cool]

papertrail is ti best album

 

[Still Benefited]

Trap Muzic to King id say....he could've outrapped anybody in the game....he just lost his delivery id say,a lot like Jay to me....both can still spit with the best but a lot of what made me like them was the condescending tone in which they delivered they rhymes if that makes sense....I still rember him dropppin that 3 Kings verse in Houston still doin his victory lap on Flip.....then he gave us another gift in Young Dro,...t.i's contributions to hiphop are sorely under appreciated,classic beefs,legendary protege,classic albums,solid discography,classic interviews,classic verses.....id say it all started with his "Ain't Never Scared" verse,I actually owned I'm Serious cuz I liked em on that Beenie Man song....tried to get dudes to listen to em cuz I thought he could spit and had potential to blow....nikkas ain't hear me tho....but as soon as that Neva Scared verse hit nikkas opened they eyes and even moreso after 24's dropped it wuz a rap....dude couldn't do no wrong

 

[NvrCMyNut]

Trap Muzik and King are both really good solid albums, imma go with King edging it because that's when he really blew and had a huge impact movie & all, plus i remember thinking Trap Muzik was a lil generic at the time, sounded like everything else coming outta rocafella(back then i thought he was on the roc)

 

[JulesWinfield]

Which ones? I know you aint talking about this joint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlKx7PG6sY&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Tip demolished Big Beast. He can still spit his albums just aren't what they used to be.

 

[Astonish]

06 I guess

His run from 03 to 08 in general was tho

 

[Brandsdale]

Trap Muzik went neck and neck with KING but I fukked with Trap Muzik more

I swear KING gave him the most popularity though (mainstream wise)

Either way, for a good period of my high school career I remember T.I. having the south in a choke hold

 

[JulesWinfield]

Trap Muzik went neck and neck with KING but I fukked with Trap Muzik more

I swear KING gave him the most popularity though (mainstream wise)

Either way, for a good period of my high school career I remember T.I. having the south in a choke hold

Dude was on top of the world in '06. Successful movie and a great album to accompany it

 

[Brandsdale]

Dude was on top of the world in '06. Successful movie and a great album to accompany it

lol word. KING and ATL movie went hand in hand.

 

[How Sway?]

I'd say between 05-08. was his prime.

Around the time the movie ATL came out.

EDIT: damn I basically repeated what Everybody else said

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Around urban legend he had multiple top hits, filmed a hit movie had people hype for PSC, and he ended lil flip's career; one of the few artists bigger than him in his lane at the time.

Definitely then

 

[Marci-Senpai]

when he dropped his buzz skyrocketed....tape was damn near perfect

 

[re'up]

My favorite period of T.I was 'Trap Muzik' through 'Down with The King'/'U Don't Know Me', I didn't like 'Urban Legend' like that though, but that was the beginning, 'Trap Muzik' was such a backdrop to my bullshyt in 2003/2004, just like a lot of my favorite music we swore ti was talking to us, and in a way, he was. But, also the 'Paper Trail' era, I felt he killed everything he touched, and 'Paper Trail' is my favorite TI album, plus the unreleased joints from that album were dope too. He lost me somewhere in 2010, as a favorite artist.

 

[Nobuo Uematsu]

The time around King he was def in his prime, wasn't nobody touching him lyrically or otherwise in the south for that lil minute

But "What up, What's Happenin" is still one of the greatest things in recent memory.

and swagger like us was the road trip song senior year of college

"a dusty bunch of walkin' shyt stains"