T.I Says He Started Trap Music

T.I has always been the type to do a lot of boasting and bragging- he came in the game calling himself The King Of The South. His saving grace has always been his mad skills on the mic. "The Trap" is a southern slang for the environment where you deal cocaine/crack...or generally, where you hustle whatever you hustle. In a recent interview, T.I said he started trap music. Well, I don't really know about that, cos I am not really big on the whole southern hip hop history, but I do know that west-coast rappers have been talking about their hustle, and gangbanging for as long as I can remember listening to hip hop. T.I came in the game in the early 2000s.

Read what he had to say in the interview below-

"Listen, man. I'm strongly planted," he said. "I'm talking in cement and it's dry - not wet cement, dry cement. I'm firmly planted, holmes. My foundation and structure has been laid with a dozen years in this thing, partna. My roots run deep. I've developed relationships. I've been building this up for a long time. You can't do what I do, man. You can't do what I do. When you on the mic, you don't sound as good. I'm sorry. You do okay. You do okay. You do okay."

"I'm tellin' them the truth, man. I'm just being real...When you on the mic, you don't sound as good as me. When you on TV, you don't look as good as me. Your girl'll tell you."

He continued by sharing how he helped others get their feet in the door, saying rappers should thank him for opening a lane for Trap music. 

"Listen, guys. With the exception of Outkast, Goodie Mob and I'ma keep it at there. With the exception of that, before I came in the game there was Lil Jon, Outkast and Goodie Mob so you had Crunk music and you had Organized Noize. There was no such thing as Trap Muzik. I created that. Yes, I did. I coined the term. It was my second album. It dropped in 2003...Now after that, there was an entire new genre of music created, an open lane for each of you to do what you do and live your lives on TV and be accepted by the masses. The masses have accepted you because I opened the door and you walked through it. Don't forget who opened the door, cuz. You couldn't have did what you doin' right now without me, holmes."

"I think they either forgot or they're being disrespectful...You can't have my spot because you can't do as good as I do at half the shit I do."   (hiphopdx.com)

You know, I think rappers shouldn't say what they did, and what they didn't do, people need to do the talking for you. I think what is wrong with T.I is that he feels he has to say something cos he is not as relevant in hip hop as he was 4 years ago. his last hot album was Paper Trail, which was released in 2008, before he started going in and out of jail.  T.I's new album, Troubled Man dropped today. I guess he did this interview to wake people up to his greatness.