T.I.’s upcoming album, Paperwork, set to feature production from Pharrell, is a project that T.I. says will encompass many qualities that have come to define his career.
“Paperwork is official,” he says in an interview with New York radio station Hot 97. “If you’ve got paperwork on something, it’s official. Also, if someone has paperwork on you, then it could be some trouble. So, it’s official, it’s trouble, it’s authentic. Sounds like me. The music supports this theory very well.”
Paperwork is set to be a different type of album for T.I.
“This is the first time in my career that I have had enough time to create all the music, get the sequencing down, even before I start my clock and put myself on the calendar,” he says. “Now that I have all of the music…I could take my time and step back and make sure it’s the perfect blend, to create the perfect amount of synergy between trap music and art house.”
T.I. says he is handling the trap house aspect of the project while Pharrell manages the art house elements. Together, the two have recorded 250 songs, according to T.I.
“I have narrowed those 250 down to the best 25,” T.I. says. “5 extras are for international releases [and additional releases]…I want to narrow that 25 down to 20. Of that 20, I want to take six records at the top, six records in the middle, six records at the end, with two records as intermissions to the three. And I would like to shoot a movie that consists of three short stories, and the three short stories will connect these…records.”
Despite Pharrell advising T.I. to release three individual projects for each short story, T.I. says he plans on releasing all of these songs on one album. He likens the release of all of the tracks to Beyonce’s self-titled 2013 album, which also contained videos for each song. He notes a difference between those releases, however.
“She went and shot individual videos one by one by one,” T.I. says. “That must’ve drove the cost through the roof…I’m doing three short stories. I’m not doing 18 videos. I’m doing three short stories. So the same way we would shoot an episode of House of Lies. We would take five days. This short story shall be complete. Five days, this short story shall be complete. See that will bring my cost down, which will raise my profit margin.”
In January, T.I. spoke of his upcoming Paperwork album.
“Me and Pharrell have a plethora [of songs],” T.I. said at the time. “We probably done recorded 14 records. Pharrell and I alone. Words couldn’t even begin to describe how cutting-edge, left-field and just how broad these records are. But they still have that texture that I speak of. They still have that Curtis Mayfield, Bobby Womack, a ridin’ dirty kind of … but a new way to present it to the world because it has that thing that Pharrell does to music that sets it apart from any and everything else that’s being played. And of course I had to give it the pulse of what I know. It’s incredible work. I did incredible work with Keno. I did incredible work with Sham [“Sak Pase” Joseph]. I have [a record] B.o.B [did] for me. It’s awesome.”
(April 5, 2014)
UPDATE: T.I. has revealed the release date for his upcoming album, Paperwork: The Motion Picture.
The project is set to be released October 21, 2014, according to Billboard.
(August 25, 2014)
UPDATE #2: T.I.’s Paperwork: The Motion Picture’s cover art is below.
(August 27, 2014)
UPDATE #3: The tracklist for T.I.’s Paperwork album has been released, according to XclusivesZone.net.
It is as follows:
1. King
2. G Shit (feat. Jeezy & WatchTheDuck)
3. About the Money (feat. Young Thug)
4. New National Anthem (feat. Skylar Grey)
5. Oh Yeah (feat. Pharrell)
6. Private Show (feat. Chris Brown)
7. No Mediocre (feat. Iggy Azalea)
8. Jet Fuel (feat. Lil Boosie)
9. Paperwork (feat. Pharrell)
10. Stay (feat. Victoria Monet)
11. About My Issue (feat. Victoria Monet & Nipsey Hussle)
12. At Ya Own Risk (feat. Usher)
13. On Doe, On Phil (feat. Trae The Truth)
14. Light Em Up (RIP Doe B) (feat. Pharrell & WatchTheDuck)
15. Let Your Heart Go (Break My Soul) (feat. The-Dream)
16. Sugar Cane
17. I Don’t Know
18. You Can Tell How I Walk (feat. Rick Ross)
(September 19, 2014)
UPDATE #4: Click here to stream T.I.’s Paperwork on iTunes.
RELATED: T.I. Details Pharrell’s Work On “Paperwork: The Motion Picture” Album
“Me and Pharrell have a plethora of songs,
Curtis should start using the word plethora instead of actually.
if he swapped them he wouldnt make any sense, those words are not interchangeable
But Curtis himself don’t make any sense.
Going back to 2008 in 2014. Paperwork and tha carter V, don’t be surprised if T.I. And Wayne take over music again
that reign is over. THE RETARDS TOOK OVER
its the year of Fiddy cent
No, both of them are at the end of their careers.
Current sales predictions:
T.I. : 135’000-160’000 first week, around 300’000 year end
Lil Wayne : 210’000-240’000 first week, around 430’000 year end
snitch ass nigga snitched to the feds to reduce gun charges. fuck this snitch
There is absolutely 0 proof of T.I. being a snitch
10+ years or 1 year locked? Which would you choose you fucking dishonest loser lol…
….what?
Seems like everyone wants to record “short films” to accompany their albums, as if they have created a profound art, yet every short film is corny. Only person that I see creating something successful like this is Jay Electronica. He makes the type of music that would make an inspiring short film.
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“Me and Pharrell have a plethora [of songs]”
So this nigga pulling a 50 Cent now? What is he gon say next? “The financially stable place I’m at right now actually allows me to make songs that can appeal to the general interest of the changing demographics of the actual country”? LMAO what a lame
^^
this nicca mastered the way 50 talks lolol
It’s called vocabulary maybe you should get one…
Every time he has an album coming out he breaks his record for the amount of songs he recorded – 2 albums ago it was 45 last time was 70, now he recorded 250… are these complete songs or just harmonizing/brainstorming — what does he do with all these tracks?
most don’t let the unfinished ever out, might save a few good songs for other artists to use, guest verses and basically sit on em or use them for another project..it all depends
TI’s fallen the fuck off. It’a all about ymcmb and mmg now.
your mother fell off faggot!
TI is the best in the game today, he outshines any rapper in any song yall just hatin he kills any song he goes on. he keeps the real rap here yall prolly just going on that pop rap shit hell naw ti is the king and is keeping real rap still in play today yall haters stfu!!
Shut up,stanley
I doubt he even write his own raps
stfu you hater. your prolly on that fake ass ymcmb bullshit
I doubt many of your favorite rappers write their own songs. Nobody in the biz longer than 5 years writes their own shit. They too busy for that.
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“if he swapped them he wouldnt make any sense, those words are not interchangeable”
Jimmy dropped me despite me having a plethora of songs recorded, so I actually sought out my new deal that actually allowed me to drop a plethora of newer songs that actually made me feel like I was actually forging a comeback.
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i dont know about all that hot shit
Will be another classic by the King and the movie will win 10 Oscars
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All respect to Pharrell, but there is nothing like a TI/DJ Toomp collabo!
Completely agree.
Well their latest collaboration “Turn it” seemed to be pretty disappointing. Released 3 month
*3 months ago and only has 700k views. Under his Vevo channel. It has basically no buzz.
His old stuff with toomp was crazy but since 56 barz no dj toomp produced track was really overwhelming. Trap back jumpin was okay but the rest of them were decend only imo.
Rick Ross is currently filming The Boss Of All Bosses for Fox.
Pharrell one of the weakest,bird ass niggas of all time. Just from readin this shitI know Imma recycle bin that album after like 1 minute of listenin to it. Tired of these pop niggas
Pharell produced Clipse – Lord Willin and a lotta good singles (including for Snoop Dogg) durin the 2000s. Fuck you Pharell goes in. Just because he found a better way of makin money don’t hate. White people love pop music and thats what they make so they can make millions.
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6. Murder Of The Gram – Ja Rule Ft Jay Z & DMX (Produced by. Irv Gotti )
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10. My Baby Ft Ashanti ( Produced By. 7)
11. Dangerous Minds Ft Kendrick Lamar ( Produced by. Hit Boy )
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if somebody fucks your mother they got aids
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fuck this snitch!
u sound like a bitch most u pussy ass niggas thats calling him a snitch either done snitched b4 dry snitched or hang with snitch dick in the booty ass niggas
snitch ass nigga yous a bitch ass nigga. Run up on me and youll get stitched fast nigga. Gucci 2 times fuck your crew and fuck your 9s. If you got drama nigga you can meet me outside.
hahahahaha, you’re must be 13 years old white kid
you are not a negro,you goddamn self-hating cac
Try having a plethora of hits.
Lolololololololol
Son pulled a 50 Cent with this one
Might as well start sayin “I actually want the general public to understand I’m in a financially stable place”
Real Big Meech aka Boss of BMF Click about Real Nikka T.I.
http://www.thisis50.com/profiles/blogs/bmf-s-big-meech-says-t-i-is-no-snitch-i-put-me-the-whole-b-m-f
Gucci Mane is a stupid dumb nikka. He apologized T.I. 2 times. One on a radio, and one on a own track. Guwop still can’t move to westside and central Atlana cuz he’s scaring hood nikkas
Fuck is on his head?
LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
a hat
Young Thug
Skylar Grey
Iggy Azalea
Chris Brown
Usher
WatchTheDuck
Seem like a real hip hop album. So great features. So hardcore
what is real hip hop?
If you have a youtube channel,please like my video so I can enter this $3,000 rap contest,I need that lil cash,I got kids mane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-rC4MNWnDE
TI has entered the realm of old rappers that pretty much lives off their name and old shit. It’s kinda sad, but that’s the truth. He’s washed up.
Age doesn’t matter asshole talent does and tip is still a dope mc just putting out trash to pleas y you young fucks who think rhyme skills is not important in hip hop when it should be the main factor of the game like its always been.
3 solo tracks out of 18. Even Game and Rick Ross thinks that ridiculous.
Wasn’t timberlake going to be on the album at one point?
Is this Dj Khaled album or Game album? so many features. Oh wait even Game has moro solo tracks on his upcoming album. T.I. fell off. His last good album was No Mercy.
As indicated by the feature of Private show, he also apparently supports beating women over treating them with respect.
That makes no sense.
I despise Atlantic and that Greenwald bitch, she always want to put white bitches on a Tip album and fuck up the chemistry, another rapper can have 10 albums without a Becky on his album but Tip is sick.
Paper work = Iggy
Trouble Man = Pink
No Mercy = Christina Auguleria
Paper Trail = Justine Timberlake
TI vs Tip = Feminem
Before that TI dropped the classic KING his best album and then the negro let Greenwald force him to chase that pop demographic and his music been watered down every since.
TI has no classic,and his music was wack from the getgo.
He even crawled to wife beater for private show since t.i. has no hits after his jail stint where as brown at least used wayne to get a few more hits.
Trap Music was his best piece of work!!
Chris has hits without Wayne.
What hits?/ Couldn’t find them on the radio except for wayne.
Then you weren’t looking.
What hits though?
You got Google. Look it up.
honestly tho, that joint “castle walls” w/ christina augilera was one of the best songs on that album. dont front
Why no 50 Cent feature? I guess Skylar and Iggy are pretty much in the same category now.
snitch music
all that snitch shit is from whack rap
this album probly made for u
im pretty sure it was lil wayne who said stop snitchin … the fakest of them all
^ I thought it was Cam’ron who said that.
No Kendrick no party
…Is something a dickrider would say
The house ni99er Snitchy Cent tried to start beef with the KANG but the KANG just ignored his bitch ass.
Isn’t it about time you move beyond the Trap Tip. He can rap his ass off but c’mon son, he has a song called no mediocre but his wife in terms of looks is mediocre at best and represents as a family man which is stand up but wants to keep talking about the trap that he is so far removed from!! Music is about Growth!!
Because Tip noticed one thing your dumb self didn’t notice, that there’s still a large demographic for trap music. As long as that demographic is still boomin T.I. has no reason to move past it. Get a clue homeboy
You got enough features on this piece of crap, cuz?
only 3 solo songs…….thats genius!
you know TI is feeling the pressure- 100 guest features..
what happened to the days when solo albums were SOLO albums with like 3-4 features
on that note..cant wait to hear kendricks album
Paper Trail >>>>>>>>>>>> Good Kid Mad City
He only has seven real rap features, ross,trae,jeezy,boosie.nipsey.thugger and iggy. Not to mention ross.trae,jeezy have NEVER out rapped t.i. on ANY of their previous collabs. In all, the production is going to be amazing(s/o to Pharell) and the album is going to flow cohesively, And it seems like he’s going to give you those gems and message in songs like, stay,national anthem,on doe,on phil, light em up, about my issue, i don’t know, and you can tell how I walk. EXPECT A GREAT FUCKING ALBUM come October 21, 2014
Easy pass. This looks awful.
15 features? wtf TIP
THIS GUARANTEED TO BE THE WORST ALBUM IN TIP’S CAREER FOOLS. EAT UH DICK
REAL NAME NO GIMMICKS
ti vs tip was he best
he peaked a while ago
This guy spoke the truth! Album is shit
fuck ti he anit no rubber band man anymore
no shit. nigga in his late 30s with millions, a wife, and kids.
them features look like shit
T.I put the Ramos brothers Ello and Gino away for life so how do I know you’re not a chevato too
You want me to believe T.I was a stoolie because niggas on DX said so maybe these niggas know something I don’t know
Who the hell is WatchTheDuck?
A Duck Dynasty offspring and prodigy. WatchTheDuck creep up on u while walking like a duck.
not badd…its seems weel balanced with the features and all….i just hope it doesnt flop….for his sake…but no b.o.b…shame..this LP got the potential to be album of the year
true dat, would have loved to hear bobby ray on e album coz he’s always good esp when working with tip
Rick Ross, Iggy Azalea and Skylar Grey finally on an album together. Thats what the fuck I’m talkin bout.
3/18 songs without features… shit looks like a French Montana or Game album
This is not a t.i. album wtf is with tip these days oh yea i forgot he’d rather cater to these kids who butchered our music instead of putting out that real shit.
nothing is wrong with T.i. , he’s still doing him like always and does he give a fuck about what you think ? no, he does’nt even know u exist
8. You Can Tell How I Walk (feat. Rick Ross)
Ross keeps on winning
Yeah he finally got to appear on a snitches album with Iggy and Skylar Grey. He’s living out his dreams before our eyes.
50 has a song with Skyler that is a lot more awesome than the one T.I. has.
T.I. has multiple songs with skylar and that alex da kid fag,
Don’t hate on Alex Da Kid. He got some cold beats.
Not looking forward to hearing these bustas Young Thug, Iggy Azalea, Skylar Grey, Chris Brown, Pharrell, Rick Ross. The Dream and Usher.
Nipsey Hussle, Trae the Truth, Lil Boosie, Jeezy could have some potential.
This is a bad album. He used to make good music.
was lookin forward to this. till i seen the rick ross feature.
He would have put Fiddy on his album but he chose Skyler Grey instead…same fanbase.
I doubt he would ever put Fiddy on his album after that line about him eating the cheese.
he’s on 50’s new album though.
Ironic how his album is called Paperwork, and he snitched to get himself out of prison on Crimestoppers ATL
WHERES THE PAPERWORK?
no one cares about that shit no more. they let an obese prison guard identity thief into the game and he left the door wide open for all the fakes frauds and faggots to come get money with them by the campfire singing kumbaya the lord!!!!
you obviously don’t know what the word snitch means so kill yourself faggot.
you full of shit like a pot-o-potty, you’ll neva be 1% of the g that T.i. is. u just mad coz you’ll neva eva ball like the king. fuck a hater
Skylar Grey? Iggy Azelia? What’s up with the pop features? He might as well get Eminem and
Justin Timberlake and call his album Curtis.
last time i checked Fiddys last album featured Yo Gotti, Prodigy, Styles P, Jadakiss, Trey Songz and Kidd Kidd. Aint no white folk or pop shit on Fiddys record but it makes total sense to see Rozay with them white girls on here.
Fiddys last album flopped because it didn’t have Justin Timberlake, Eminem, and Nicole Sherzinger on it, Fiddy should have out his song with Skyler Grey on Actual Ambition.
this album will sell 167,133 copies in its first week of release
thats pretty good but i think youre a lil high, 120-30 sounds more realistic
180-200k bet!
I say 70 k at most
That Rick Ross track is burning up radio.
yeah right
TI LOOK LIKE EARTHWORM JIM
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Surprised he doesnt have Justin Bieber on here. I could see him fitting perfectly on that song with Ross.
Pfft and these idiots love saying that 50 fell off
TI basically invented trap music, but here he is lowering himself to making records with Young THug and co
TI its over, let it go LOL
Features look fucking ass yunghomo thug nigga really? and who or what is WatchTheDuck!
“Watch The Duck is a musical trio from Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the trapstep movement which…”
hahahahahaha
Compilation TIP fell off….
Worst pop features on a street artists album since Curtis.
Lol Curtis was still gangster at least, and he didn’t have any trash like young thug or Rick Ross on it
This album leaked yesterday, it is garbage! Was looking forward to it as well.
Awaiting Cadillactica…
Any album that contains one or all of young thug, Iggy azalea, Rick Ross or usher is bound to be a piece of fucking shit
shut up
Heard the album it’s awesome def one i will buy and its funny how all you niggas talkin shit chose to remain anonymous
Too many features. Good features, but damn. Don’t people make records on their own anymore?
yeah they do..but they arent in the rap genre.