T.I. Compares New Album 'King Uncaged' To 2Pac's 'All Eyez On Me'. Says He Wants To Surpass Pac's Classic


T.I. is setting the bar high for his post-prison album, King Uncaged, comparing it to Tupac’s 1996 classic All Eyez on Me, which was released months after ‘Pac got out of prison. “This is the most significant return from incarceration that the game has had since then,” T.I. says. “Just given the enormous success of that project, everyone’s expecting the same results. I just want to meet the expectations, if not surpass them.”

The Atlanta MC says he didn’t get much work done while serving 10 months in Federal penitentiary in Arkansas on weapons charges (”I didn’t have a lot of time by myself just to think,” he says), but he got cracking on the day he was released to a halfway house in January, recording the defiant single, “I’m Back.”

He’s been on a creative tear since, recording more than 60 songs for the album, due out in August, working with the producers who have crafted his biggest hits, including Jim Jonsin, who made the beat for Paper Trail Number One hit “Whatever You Like,” Danja (”No Matter What”), and DJ Toomp (”What You Know”).

Some songs talk about my time in prison — how I was affected by that, the way I’ve grown from that, things I see now that I may have not seen then,” says T.I. “Sometimes I talk about love, some songs I talk about life, some songs I talk about me being the s*** on every level.”

No songs will talk about T.I. carrying a gun. “Regardless of what may happen, what circumstances may present themselves, how extreme they may be, I will not be the one carrying firearms,” says the MC, who was arrested in 2007 for trying to buy a small arsenal of weapons, including machine guns. He has said he was buying guns in a misguided attempt to protect himself after his best friend Philant Johnson was killed.

T.I. considers the new album the last chapter in a trilogy that began with 2007’s T.I. vs. T.I.P. and continued with Paper Trail, which was the eighth best-selling album of 2008. “If it was a film, the opening act would be the night that Phil got shot, and all the emotions and the sentiments that led to T.I. Vs. T.I.P.,” he says. ”From there, the schizophrenia of it all led to an unfortunate chain of events that left me incarcerated with federal weapons charges, which inspired Paper Trail, and now, people are waiting to hear the end of the story.”


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Comment by Jay-B on May 2, 2010 at 8:26pm
This is awesome! It could be good for hip hop. T.I competing with himself. setting the bar. This album is guna be good. wether or not it surpasses PAC
Comment by matt fields on April 19, 2010 at 10:42am
it is too.... dis is a bigg album in music period, not just rap... he dont wish he was pac lol come on... he probably learned a lot from pac like he should, n is doing some things like he did... pac was ready to do really different s*** before he went, n cats 2day should carry dat torch... doing good things wit da power n changin da game
Comment by SOUTH MIAMI HEIGHTS 305 on April 19, 2010 at 12:35am
THIS B**** A** N**** WISH HE WAS PAC
Comment by S*****-ATTITUDE on April 18, 2010 at 10:04pm
TIP MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAM BUT DONT INFEST ANYMORE DOPE TALES ON OUR CHILDREN. YOU ARE THE PIC OF THE ANTI-CRIMINAL. EMBRACE IT AND BRING CHANGE THROUGH HELPING OUT THE UNFORTUNATE THAT YOU HELPED MISLEAD AND NOT ON MTV,BET OR VH1. DO SOMETHING REAL THAT WILL SATISFY YOUR SOUL AND YOUR QUEST FOR REDEMPTION. THE MUSIC BUSINESS IS NOT YOUR FRIEND.

Unconditional Love lyrics
(What y'all want?)
Unconditional Love (no doubt)
Talking bout the stuff that don't wear off
It don't fade
It'll last for all these crazy days
These crazy nights
Whether you wrong or you right
I'm a still love you
Still feel you
Still there for you
No matter what (hehe)
You will always be in my heart
With unconditional love

[Verse One:]

Come listen to my truest thoughts, my truest feelings
All my peers doing years beyond drug dealing
How many caskets can we witness
Before we see it's hard to live
This life without God, so we must ask forgiveness
Ask mama why God deserved to die
Witness the tears falling free from my eyes
Before she could reply
Though we were born without a silver spoon
My broken down TV, show cartoons in my living room (hey)
One day I hope to make it
A player in this game
Mama don't cry, long as we try
Maybe things change
Perhaps it's just a fantasy
A life where we don't need no welfare
S*** with our whole family
Maybe it's me that caused it
The fighting and the hurting
In my room crying cause I didn't want to be a burden
Watch mama open up her arms to hugging
And I ain't worried bout a damn thang, with unconditionl love

[Chorus: 2x]

In this game the lesson's in your eyes to see
Though things change, the future's still inside of me
We must remember that tomorrow comes after the dark
So you will always be in my heart, with unconditional love

[Verse Two:]

Just got the message you've been calling all week
Been out here hustling on these streets, ain't had a chance to speak
But you know, with you and me it's on G
We could never be enemies, cause you been such a good friend to me
Where would I be without my dogs
No wonder why when times get hard
Cause it ain't easy being who we are
Driven by my ambitions, desire higher positions
So I proceed to make Gs, eternally in my mission
Is to be more than just a rap musician
The elevation of today's generation
If could make 'em listen
Prison ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed
Time to play and strategize, my family's gotta eat
When we make somethin out of nothing
No pleasure in the suffering, neighborhood would be good
If they could cut out all the busting
The liquor and the weed the cussing
Sending love out to my block
The struggle never stops (unconditional love)

[Chorus]

[Verse Three:]

I'll probably never understand ya ways
With everyday I swear I hear ya
Trying to change your ways while gettin paid at the same time
Just had a baby with the same eyes
Something inside, please let me die these are strange times
How come I never made it
Maybe it's the way the played it in my heart
I knew one day I gotta be a star
My hopes and all my wishes
So many vivid pictures, and all the currency
I'll never even get to see
This fast life soon shatter us
Cause after all the lights and screams
Nothing but my dreams matter
Hoping for better days
Maybe a peaceful night, baby don't cry
Cause everythang gonna be alright
Just lay your head on my shoulder
Don't worry bout a thang baby
Girl I'm a soldier (huh)
Never treated me bad, no matter who I was
You still came with that, unconditional love

[Chorus 3x until fade]
Comment by S*****-ATTITUDE on April 18, 2010 at 9:44pm
Chorus: Tupac

Come with me, Hail Mary
Run quick see, what do we have here
Now, do you wanna ride or die
La dadada, la la la la

Verse One: Tupac

I ain't a killer but don't push me
Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin p****
Picture paragraphs unloaded, wise words bein quoted
Peeped the weakness int he rap game and sewed it
Bow down, pray to God hoping that he's listenin
Seein n***** comin for me, to my diamonds, when they glistenin
Now pay attention, rest in peace father
I'm a ghost in these killin fields
Hail Mary catch me if I go, let's go deep inside
the solitary mind of a madman who screams in the dark
Evil lurks, enemies, see me flee
Activate my hate, let it break, to the flame
Set trip, empty out my clip, never stop to aim
Some say the game is all corrupted, f***** in this s***
Stuck, n***** is lucky if we bust out this s***, plus
mama told me never stop until I bust a nut
F*** the world if they can't adjust
It's just as well, Hail Mary

Chorus 2X

Verse Two: Tupac

Penetentiaries is packed with promise makes
Never realize the precious time the b**** n***** is wastin
Instutionalized I lived my life a product made to crumble
But too hardened for a smile, we're too crazy to be humble, we ballin
Catch me father please, cause I'm fallin, in the liquor store
That's the Hennessee I hear ya callin, can I get some more?
Hail til I reach Hell, I ain't scared
Mama checkin in my bedroom; I ain't there
I got a head with no screws in it, what can I do
One life to live but I got nuttin to lose, just me and you
on a one way trip to prison, sellin drugs
We all wrapped up in this livin, life as Thugs
To my homeboys in Quentin Max, doin they bid
Raise hell to this real s***, and feel this
When they turn out the lights, I'll be down in the dark
Thuggin eternal through my heart, now Hail Mary n****

Chorus 2X

Verse Three: Kastro, Young Noble

They got a APB, out on my Thug family
Since the Outlawz run these streets, like these skanless freaks
Our enemies die now, walk around half dead
Head down, K blasted off Hennessee and Thai
Tryin it, mixed it, now I'm twisted blisted and high
Visions of me, Thug livin gettin me by
Forever live, and I multiply survived by Thugs
When I die they won't cry unless they comin with slugs

Peep the whole scene and whatever's goin on around me
Brain kinda cloudy, smoked out feelin rowdy
Ready to wet the party up, and whoever in that m***********
Nasty new street, slugger my heat seeks suckers
on the regular mashin in a black Ac Integ-ra
C*** back, sixty seconds til the draw that's when I'm dead in ya
Feet first, you got a nice gat but my heat's worse
From a Thug to preachin church, I gave you love now you eatin dirt
Needin work, and I ain't the n**** to put you on
Cause word is bond when I was broke I had to hustle til dawn
That's when sun came up, there's only one way up
hold ya head and stay up, to all my n***** get ya pay and weight up

If it's on then it's on, we break beat-breaks
Outlawz on a paper chase, can you relate
to this s*** I don't got, be the s*** I gotta take
Dealin with fate, hoping God don't close the gate
If it's on then it's on, we break beat-breaks
Outlawz on a paper chase, can you relate
to this s*** I don't got, be the s*** I gotta take
Dealin with fate, hoping God don't close the gate

Chorus (repeats in background)

Outro: Prince Ital

We've been traveling on this wavy road
Long time til I be take off this load
But we ride, ride it like a bullet
Hail Mary, Hail Mary
We won't worry everyting will come real
Free like the bird in the tree
We won't worry everyting will come real
Yes we free like the bird in the tree
We runnin from the penetentiary
This is the time for we liberty
Hail Mary, Hail Mary

Chorus

[Tupac]
Westside, Outlawz, Makaveli the Don, Solo, Killuminati, The 7 Days
Comment by S*****-ATTITUDE on April 18, 2010 at 9:38pm
['Pac talking]
Big Syke, Newt, Hank
Beugard, Big Sur (yeah)
Y'all know how this s*** go (y'know)
{All Eyez On Me}
M*********** O.G.
Roll up in the club and s*** (is that right?)
{All Eyez On Me}
{All Eyez On Me}
But you know what?

[Tupac]
I bet you got it twisted you don't know who to trust
So many playa hating n***** tryin to sound like us
Say they ready for the funk, but I don't think they knowin
Straight to the depths of hell is where those cowards goin
Well are you still down n****? Holla when you see me
And let these devils be sorry for the day they finally freed me
I got a caravan of n***** every time we ride (every time we ride)
Hittin m************ up when we pass by (when we pass by)
Until I die; live the life of a boss playa
Cause even when I'm high, f*** with me and get crossed later
The futures in my eyes, cause all I want is cash and thangs
A five-double-oh - Benz flauntin flashy rings, uhh
B****** pursue me like a dream
Been know to disappear before your eyes just like a dope fiend
It seems - my main thang was to be major paid
The game sharper than a m*********** razor blade
Say money bring b******, b****** bring lies
One n****'s gettin jealous, and m************ died
Depend on me like the first and fifteenth
They might hold me for a second, but these punks won't get me
We got foe n*****, and lowriders, in ski masks
screamin Thug Life every time they pass {All Eyez On Me}

[Chorus One: Tupac]

Live the life of a thug n****, until the day I die
live the life of a boss playa {All Eyez On Me}
cause even gettin high.. ..{All Eyez On Me}
Live the life of a thug n****, until the day I die
live the life of a boss playa, cause even gettin high..

[Syke]
Heeyyy, to my n**** 'Pac..
So much trouble in the world, n****
Can't nobody feel your pain
The world's changin everyday, times moving faaast
My girl said I need a raise, how long will she last?
I'm caught between my woman, and my pistol, and my chips
Triple beam, got some smokers on, whistle as I dip
I'm lost in the land with no plan, livin life flawless
Crime boss, contraband, let me toss this
Needy hookers got a lot of nerve, let my bucket swerve
I'm takin off from the curb
The nervousness neglect make me pack a tec
Devoted to servin this, Moet and paaayyy-checks
Like Akai satellite n**** I'm forever ballin
It ain't right parasites triggers and fleas crawlin
Sucker duck and get busted, no emotion
My devotion is handlin my business n**** keep on coastin
Where you goin I been there came back as lonely homie
Steady flowin against the grain n***** STILL don't know me
It's about the money in this rap s***, this crap s***
It ain't funny n***** don't even know how to act - s***!
What can I do, what can I say, is there another way?
Blunts and gin all day, twenty-fo' parlay
My little homie G, can't you see, I'm busta free
N***** can't stand me - all eyes on me!

[Chorus Two: Tupac]

I live the life of a thug n****, until the day I die
Live the life as a boss playa {All Eyez On Me}
cause even gettin high {All Eyez On Me}
I live the life of a thug n****, until the day I die
live the life as a boss playa {All Eyez On Me}
cause even gettin high

[Tupac]
The feds is watchin, n***** plottin to get me
Will I survive, will I die? Come on let's picture the possibility
Givin me charges, lawyers makin a grip
I told the judge I was raised wrong, and that's why I blaze s***
Was hyper as a kid, cold as a teenager
On my mobile callin big shots on the scene major
Packing hundreds in my drawers; f*** the law
B****** I f*** with a passion, I'm livin rough and raw
Catchin cases at a fast rate, ballin in the fast lane
Hustle til the mornin, never stopped until the cash came
Live my life as a thug n****, until the day I die
Live my life as a boss playa, cause even gettin high
these n***** got me tossin s***
I put the top down, now it's time to floss my s***
Keep your head up n****, make these m************ suffer
Up in the Benz burnin rubber
The money is mandatory, the hoes is fully strapped
This criminal lifestyle, equipped with the bulletproof vest
Make sure your eyes is on the meal ticket
Get your money m*********** let's get rich and we'll kick it
All eyes on me!

[Chorus Three: Tupac]

I live the life as a thug n****, until the day I die
Live the life as a boss playa {All Eyez On Me}
cause even gettin high.. ..{All Eyez On Me}
I live the life as a thug n****, until the day I die
Live the life as a boss playa {All Eyez On Me}
cause even gettin high.. ..{All Eyez On Me
Comment by Sakera on April 18, 2010 at 6:37pm
That's high bar that he needs to not to try to attain.
Comment by Evan on April 18, 2010 at 5:26pm
If so then it should be fire... All eyez on me is one of the best albums of ALL TIME
Comment by S*****-ATTITUDE on April 18, 2010 at 1:02pm
TUPAC TROUBLESOME

Outlawz, Outlawz
This is dedicated to the real n*****
All the real Troublesome soldiers on the streets
Who'd rather die than see the penitentiary
We all m***********' Outlawz
In ya hearts
You know what time it is

TIP SIT YO SCARY A** DOWN SOMEWHERE. PAC REALLY LIVED HIS LYRICS. you think you can create the illusion of a real n**** off yo busta a** profile. you better cater to the hoes cause you done lost the streets for good tip.
Comment by Stephen Donnelly on April 18, 2010 at 12:12pm
Actually if you look at what he says, I don't think he actually says he wants to surpass tupac's record, I think he says that he wants to surpass the expectations that people now have after he released Paper Trail. He did compare himself to 'Pac no doubt but I'm unsure on whether or not he actually thought he was going to outdo All Eyez On Me.

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