XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this second:
Aug. 19, 2003: Earlier than he was hip-hop’s “Rubber Band Man,” T.I. was a younger and hungry Southern MC with a grizzly voice and many to show. Coming off a low-selling debut album, I am Severe in 2001, Tip was severe about coming again with a lyrical vengeance on his second LP when he dropped Entice Muzik on today in 2003.
Launched 20 years in the past on T.I.’s Grand Hustle Data along with Atlantic Data, Entice Muzik was a lot better acquired by followers and critics. The 16-song assortment featured visitor appearances from Bun B and Mac Boney and manufacturing credit from Kanye West, David Banner, DJ Troomp and Tip himself. Not like his first launch, the album spawned quite a lot of hit singles, together with “24’s,” “Be Simple” and most notably, “Rubber Band Man,” which peaked at No. 30 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart for the week ending March 20, 2004, and earned him a built-in nickname.
“All people performs an element and has a place and I simply did my half,” T.I. informed The Breakfast Membership host Charlamagne Tha God concerning the worldwide affect of his second album. “I had no concept that what I used to be doing would imply a lot to so many. So many individuals would be capable of relate and correspond with their very own contributions that may attain the plenty and switch to what it become to right this moment. It is only a blessing to be a bit of such of magnificent machine [the trap muzik genre].”
Entice Muzik offered 109,000 copies in its first week and was licensed platinum by the Recording Trade Affiliation of America on June 1, 2007. The album is acknowledged as one of many biggest Southern rap albums of all time as a consequence of its genuine “entice life” themes, impeccable manufacturing and the lyrics and charisma of the self-proclaimed “King of the South.”
