On this date in 2001, the self-proclaimed “King Of The South,” rapper/actor T.I., launched his first album entitled I’m Critical.
Produced by a number of behind the board legends together with ATL’s DJ Toomp, Jazze Pha, Lil Jon, The Neptunes, and few others, with options from Pharrell, Bone Crusher, Too Brief, Pastor Troy, and lots of different South and West icons nonetheless didn’t garner him the industrial success that he would finally be acknowledged for his music in addition to within the cinema.
With this being T.I.’s lowest-selling album, Arista Data made the heartbreaking transfer to chop him from the label after promoting lower than 300K copies. This was the plain silver lining within the cloud as a result of T.I has not solely went on to turn out to be one of many top-selling Hip-Hop artists so far however has additionally made his mark on the silver display starring together with the likes of Denzel Washington, Ruby Dee, and lots of others.
No matter what the critics must say, salute to T.I. for providing up this underground Hip-Hop traditional!
