8 Mile producer Brian Grazer will be doing a biopic surrounding Gucci Mane’s life and his role as the trap music “progenitor.” Grazer originally had T.I. in mind to do a biopic first, however, in an interview with TMZ, Tip says he turned down the opportunity.
“Brian asked me to do mine a while ago, and I told him I wasn’t interested just because I don’t know how that story ends,” the Grand Hustle boss told TMZ.
“I guess he found somebody that wanted to do theirs, that’s fine.”
The debate of who the true architect of trap music normally relegates between T.I. and Gucci Mane. It’s a quiet disagreement between the two and many rap fans who have their opinions on who the real trap God is.
In April, T.I. shot down Guwop’s claim that he is the inventor of the sub-genre by posting to Instagram a Wikipedia screenshot displaying the date his first album, Trap Muzik (August 13, 2003), was released as opposed to when Gucci dropped his first mixtape which was two years later with Trap House.
“It’s idiocy to go out and continue to toss around opinions in the face of facts,” he says of Grazer’s forthcoming biopic with Gucci.
During an interview with HipHopDX, T.I. doubled down on his trap music creator claims and they were eventually co-signed by CeeLo Green during a recent episode of HipHopDX’s Soulful Sundays.
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Curtis Hanson directed 8 Mile, and there is also no hyphen in the title.
2 L’s in a row, he turned down the “Stir Fry” beat from Pharrell and he turned down his own 8 mile Bio Topic smh
Ban anything “trap” related. It’s the downfall of hiphop music, the culture, the youth, and society as a whole. It represents the worst of everything. It serves no greater impact, will never be helmed “classic”, is not artistically challenging, is not innovative, and will never influence progression. Please @ me and give me 1 counterpoint! I bet you can’t. We need to support the young generation in abandoning trap culture and support young artists making authentic music.
Go back to listening to Sage Francis
Kool G Rap 4,5,6 is a trap album
There should be no debate on this…Tip comes first and then you can debate between Jeezy vs Gucci…
Your story ended tip, dont know if youre still trapping, gone commercial and your music fell off ten years ago, then made lotta trash and was hanging around with lot of fakes and it was that cheap mixtape sht everyone did. And now youre a political activist. Tryna look conscious with all that dope criminal music catalogue we still bumpin to this day, R.I.P. T.I.P. im serious – the king.
If theres such thing as undisputed championship its not about t.i., failed to keep it or get it back for a straight decade.
Short version nobody would watch that sht. And new school wack rap fans wont respect the music you came up on either.