T.I., the king of hip-hop south shore - "The United States has hip-hop" program sit-in mentor This article is written by the author Fang Shi, only published on today's headline platform, illegal reprint must be investigated. This article is written by the author Fang Shi, only published on today's headline platform, illegal reprint must be investigated.

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Last October, Netflix, an online video rental provider, launched a rap contest program, Rhythm + Flow, which was jokingly called "Hip Hop in America" by many Chinese netizens.

Rhythm + Flow recruited three mentors, the most senior of which is of course the Atlanta rap singer T.I. T.I. with the "King of Hip Hop South Shore"

Born in 1980 in Atlanta, T.I., began practicing rap at the age of eight, and at the age of sixteen he had begun selling his music on the streets with friends who played rap.

Soon after, T.I. was signed by Arista Records, in fact, his original stage name was, coincidentally, there was a similar name rapper in the record company at that time - that is, Q-Tip, a core member of the famous jazz rap group A Tribe Called Quest, out of respect for the predecessors, but also in order to let the company quickly let the public distinguish between the two rappers when doing artist promotion, T.I. changed his original stage name Tip to T.I.

In 2001, at the age of 21, T.I. released his first solo album, I'm Serious, and the company was so obsessed with T.I. that it even invited top producer Pharrell Williams to produce and sing for the album.

However, the album's eventual commercial sales did not meet expectations, selling just over 200,000 copies.

The bleak sales results led to the immediate termination of T.I.S. by Arista Records, and many music critics also criticized T.I.'s album for being full of clichés and even suspected of plagiarism.

At that time, the situation could be said to be the lowest point of T.I.'s career.

However, the man who dared to call himself the king of the South Shore from the beginning of his debut did not concede defeat.

After being terminated by his old club because of poor record sales, T.I. and friends formed their own record label Grand Hustle.

In the same year that the company was founded, T.I. released his second album Trap Muzik, which ranked fourth on the US Billboard 200 chart, sold more than a million copies, and received a large number of professional music critics, Trap Muzik is recognized as T.I.'s classic hip-hop work that became the true king of the South Shore, and the name of the album also promoted the trap style to the extreme.

In 2004, T.I.'s third album, Urban Legend, was released and was still a huge success — no. 7 on the Billboard 200.

Subsequent albums "King", "T.I. vs. T.I.P.", "Paper Trail" and so on, each time won the first place on the US Billboard 200 chart!

During his career at King of the South Shore T.I., he has been nominated 19 times by the Grammys, winning three awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance, the Grammy Award for Best Rap Collaboration, and the Best Rap Collaboration Award!

In addition to the Grammys, T.I. has received a total of 170 nominations and 64 awards from prestigious music awards, including the American Music Awards, billboard music awards, black entertainment awards and other prestigious music awards.

As one of Atlanta's most important rappers, T.I., who dared to call himself the King of the South Shore, proved his uniqueness to the public with his entire career and work, T.I. is not only the king of Atlanta, but also the leader of Trap music.