T.I.’s “Paper Trail” Leads the Way
Posted by Bossip Staff
Paper Trail is headed toward platinum status:
Regaining hip-hop’s position at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top 200 charts this week is T.I.’s Paper Trail, which has officially been certified gold selling over 568,300 copies after only seven days in stores. According to the Nielsen Soundscan, Tip may indeed be the “King of the South” as his latest effort marks the third consecutive time he’s received the No. 1 debut and the second time since 2006’s King that he’s gone gold within a week’s time span. The Grammy-winning rapper’s long-awaited sixth album offers fans a steady mix of mega superstars including Jay-Z, Lil’ Wayne, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna and more, along with production by DJ Toomp, Swizz Beatz and Kanye West who created the star-studded hit “Swagger Like Us.”
T.I.’s swag is definitely on extra high at the moment. He’s sold a ton of albums in his first week and…well, that’s about it, but that is way more than enough. If you’ve checked the album out, let us know if we should help this cat get to platinum status by telling us what you think about it.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin remained in the dark while her husband repeatedly asked top state officials to help get his former brother-in-law kicked off the state police force, Palin’s husband and top aides said in affidavits provided to The *****ociated Press.
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Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, is the focus of a legislative investigation into whether she abused her authority by firing the state’s public safety commissioner to settle a long-standing family dispute. The commissioner says he was fired after resisting pressure to fire Mike Wooten, a trooper involved in a bitter divorce with Palin’s sister.
The investigation has been a distraction for John McCain’s presidential campaign. Lawmakers were scheduled to meet Friday and release a report on the case, which could shed light on how Palin governs and what role her husband played in her administration.
The affidavits filed with investigators late Wednesday will probably help Palin’s defense that the firing was not a tit-for-tat, but they also portray her as uninvolved while her husband met repeatedly with her aides about family affairs. That could provide fodder for her political opponents.
“I have heard criticism that I am too involved in my wife’s administration,” Todd Palin wrote in his affidavit. “My wife and I are very close. We are each other’s best friend. I have helped her in her career the best I can, and she has helped me.”
The do*****ents, released on the same day the state Supreme Court heard arguments in a lawsuit designed to block the probe, describe Todd Palin’s extraordinary level of access to a variety of the governor’s top aides.
He told them emotional stories about Wooten threatening and emotionally abusing his family. He said he talked to anyone who would listen. He gave them photos and do*****ents, which they forwarded to others in the administration, and he questioned how Wooten kept his job.
Even Gov. Palin’s special *****istant, Ivy Frye, said she was distraught when she was told about the situation.
“I’ve felt empathy for the Palin and Heath families in having to endure har*****ment, intimidation, threats and abuse from a former family member,” Frye wrote.
But Frye said she never talked about it with the governor or mentioned the idea of asking Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan to fire Wooten.
Monegan says he was fired for not dismissing Wooten, a claim that touched off the politically charged investigation just before McCain chose Palin as his running mate. Palin says she fired Monegan over a budget dispute. The do*****ents filed late Wednesday bolster that claim and also describe an effort by Monegan to wrest control of the department away from Palin.
Todd Palin said he never pressured anyone — including his wife. In fact, he says that after talking about the matter with her repeatedly, she finally told him to “drop it.”
“Anyone who knows Sarah knows she is the governor and she calls the shots,” Todd Palin wrote. “I make no apologies for wanting to protect my family and wanting to publicize the injustice of a violent trooper keeping his badge.”
Republican lawmakers argued Wednesday before the state Supreme Court that the legislative inquiry should be shut down and the report not released. Palin is not a part of that lawsuit. The state’s personnel board also is looking into the matter and Palin has said she feels that inquiry is more appropriate.
The Supreme Court said it would rule promptly but did not say when.
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Yea it’s a hit cop that! T.I King of the South!!!!!
Sorry…Ya Boy…but real news got it.
BTW BOSSIP I HATE THIS PIC OF TI WITH HIS H E R P E S LIPS!!
OH Yeah…he is going Platinum….WEEZY LOOK OUT BABY!!! GO TIP!!
no wonder the music industry is in the toilet.
WASHINGTON — After forgoing character attacks during the second presidential debate, Republican John McCain sought Wednesday to sow doubt about Democrat Barack Obama’s background and character. Obama, meanwhile, accused the McCain campaign of trying to “score cheap political points.”
Both candidates tried to play into voters’ worries about the other with a mere four weeks to go before Election Day. McCain is perceived as being weak on the economy, and Obama continued a line of attack against the veteran senator for saying recently that the fundamentals of the U.S. economy were strong.
McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, challenged Obama’s campaign claims, stressed his lack of experience and said his ideas were dangerous.
“We’ve all heard what he’s said. But it’s less clear what he’s done, or what he will do,” McCain told supporters in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
McCain’s remarks about Obama were interrupted with shouts of “socialist,” “terrorist” and “liar.”
Palin said there were too many questions about Obama’s past: “John McCain didn’t just come out of nowhere. The American people know John McCain.”
And for the second time in three days, a speaker at a Republican rally invoked Obama’s middle name, Hussein, in an apparent attempt to feed lingering fears about the Democrat’s background.
Lehigh County Republican Chairman Bill Platt twice used Obama’s middle name before McCain and Palin arrived at the campaign stop in the town of Bethlehem. The campaign quickly issued a statement saying it did not condone “this inappropriate rhetoric.”
McCain has called the use of Obama’s middle name both improper and inappropriate and once apologized after a supporter warming up a rally used it. Hussein is a common name in Muslim cultures and its use in the campaign is seen as an effort to link Obama to radical Islam even though he is a Christian. Obama’s father was a Muslim from Kenya.
Wednesday’s attacks came after Palin over the weekend repeatedly went after Obama, claiming he is close with William Ayers, a founder of the violent Vietnam-era group the Weather Underground. Obama and Ayers live in the same Chicago neighborhood and have served together on community boards.
Obama, speaking in an ABC News interview televised Wednesday night, shot back at the McCain campaign, saying they were highlighting his *****ociation with Ayers in an effort to “score cheap political points” in the final weeks before the election.
Obama said he was surprised McCain didn’t bring the attacks up at this week’s second presidential debate.
“I am surprised that, you know, we’ve been seeing some pretty over-the-top attacks coming out of the McCain campaign over the last several days, that he wasn’t willing to say it to my face. But I guess we’ve got one last debate. So presumably, if he ends up feeling that he needs to, he will raise it during the debate.”
Palin first accused Obama of “palling around with terrorists,” then recalibrated her criticism to say the lack of clarity about the Ayers-Obama relationship was a legitimate campaign issue because it speaks to Obama’s truthfulness and judgment.
Obama said Wednesday that he has said many times that Ayers “engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old” and that he was an education professor at the University of Illinois when they met 10 or 15 years ago.
“The notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that he — I’ve palled around with a terrorist, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points,” Obama said.
The return to heavily negative campaigning by the Republican ticket came as McCain, behind in the polls, gained no ground following Tuesday night’s debate with Obama.
With time running out and U.S. and global financial institutions battered as badly as at any time in nearly eight decades, American voters appeared increasingly disinclined to put a Republican back in the White House, regardless of concerns about whether Obama, a first-term senator, has enough experience.
The Democrat leads in key states and the most recent Gallup Poll daily tracking survey showed Obama expanding his lead over McCain to 11 percentage points, though he has yet to sew up the race.
At the debate, Obama and McCain stood back from the vitriol that was consuming the campaign in the days leading up to the town-hall forum at Belmont University, which snap polls after the give and take showed Obama had won.
The only new proposal McCain brought to voters in the Nashville, Tennessee, confrontation Tuesday night was $300 billion in additional government spending on sour mortgages.
On Wednesday, McCain added he would “confront” the m*****ive federal debt and would balance the annual federal budget by the end of his term in office, without specifying whether he meant in four years or perhaps eight years should he be elected twice.
McCain has long promised to balance the budget but this was the first time he renewed the pledge since the enactment of a $700 billion bailout this month of troubled financial institutions which could complicate such an effort.
Obama’s campaign released a statement Wednesday criticizing McCain’s mortgage bailout plan, saying it would cause the government to lose money by paying too much for bad loans.
Speaking to several thousand people in Indianapolis, Obama acknowledged public anxiety over the financial crisis.
“This isn’t a time for fear or panic,” he said. “This is a time for resolve and leadership.”
He also sought to tie his rival to the unpopular Republican president, George W. Bush.
“All we heard from Sen. McCain was more of the same Bush economics that led us into this mess,” Obama said. The Illinois Democrat urged supporters not to be “hoodwinked” or “bamboozled” by what he called downsides to McCain’s health care proposals.
Meanwhile, Palin’s husband weighed in for the first time on a controversy over whether his wife, in her role as Alaska’s governor, abused her power in firing a state official.
Palin and her husband, Todd, are the focus of an investigation by a legislative panel in Alaska.
The Palins are accused of pressuring Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan to fire a state police officer who had gone through a messy divorce with the governor’s sister. When he resisted, Monegan says, Gov. Palin fired him.
The panel is expected to meet Friday and release a potentially embarr*****ing report into the firing.
In an affidavit submitted by Todd Palin to the investigators in response to questions given to him, the governor’s husband defended his role as a close adviser to his wife but was adamant that he never pressured anyone — including his wife — about the officer.
Thats wussup!!!!!! And he will stay platinum as long as he stay keeping it real…..!!!
That and stay off drugs…
One way might be to always wear a shirt. Having the physique of a 11-year old girl aint gonna help this *****s street cred…
I love you T.I.
T.I. was always doing his thing. That charge set him back but before the charge, he was on the way to BIG things. He had crazy endorsements and successful album sells. He’s just “getting back”, that’s all.
TI’s Cd is the business. If you didn’t buy it you are missing out on good hip hop music. He should have done a milli in one week. His fans are slippin. Even in the recession I went to cop that. That “Every Chance I Get” is my favorite.
Wow those are good numbers…
He’s probably gonna do even better once that “Swagger Like Us” Video comes out…
NAH. THAT PAPER TRAIL COOL BUT THE RECESSION GO WAY HARDER. MY WIFE AND 14 Y/O DAUGHTER LIKE IT THO. HAA!!
I have always been a T.I. fan and I always will be. Keep up the good work T.I. and what I heard so far from the album is great!
Yeah, It’s hot It’s in my cd player right now, it’s definitely worth buying.
I love his album!! The track with Luda and B.O.B. is fire! He has a lot of hot joints on there. I also love the last song with Justin Timberlake. the album is great. Point. Blank. Period. lol
I went to Best buy to pick up it up but that joint was 14.99…so I left it there….
NAH. THAT PAPER TRAIL COOL BUT THE RECESSION GO WAY HARDER.
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FOR REAL!!!
Got a bop like this, can’t wear skinny jeans cause my knots don’t fit…
@ Doagae
@ Amazon.com they have it for 9.99 and 2.95 shipping. If you are in a no tax state there won’t be any tax on it. That saves you a couple of bucks.
His CD is pure FIRE!
On Top Of The World (feat. Ludacris and B.O.B) is my jont! I love Live Your Life (feat. Rihanna), Swagga Like Us=FIRE.
Get it in your life!
Definitely go get that …I am rockin it heavy right now!!!
Good for TI
good on T.I. hopefully there’s nuff cash for the fam when the cops get their way and lock im up. DAMN I HATE COPS!
The album is definitely HOT! T.I. always brings it…the album will definitely go platinum!
He’s album is Craaaaaazy!!! I love it!
Oh yall better cop that…Okay, I only know the number of the track….I love 2,3,4,5,6,8,11,12,13.and my favorite one is “Life is Like a Slideshow” w/ John Legend….The whole CD is the truth…..The best Hip-Hop CD this year….
Congrats to T.I hold what you got.
It’s good 2 see real artists selling
By the way J-Hud debut album sold over 211,000 first week. That’s very good when u know she had T.I as a challenger and the music industry is on crisis.
That album is nice just like all his albums, im never dissapointed, even with I’m Serious. You don’t have to do like most CD and skip around, just let that b*tch ride out.
bossip..you shuld buy the album… all the songs is top noch… and this is probally the best album t.i has made since king from 2006
Yo, this is probably one of the top 3 albums of 2008. The Luda, TI and BOB joint is the best song on the album. But real talk this is a hot album……
THE CD IS TIGHT! Especially that “Im Illy” song! Reminds me of lil wayne “a millie” I thought he woulda sold a millie by now. We gotta help our man TIP out. Better than Trap Muzic and all the rest.
Oh and that song wit USHER is fire!
the album is phenomenal, it ranks up there is Carter III in terms of quality. it def got at least 4 top singles on it, its worth them money, go buy that!!!!!
whoever posted that long ***** dumb shyt please get a life, we al ready hip on current events okay?? You would be a fool not to, so do us all a favor and stop postin dumb ***** like that
6am’s 2008 predictions that have come true:
1. Nelly is wack, has always been wack, will fall off big time this year because you cant keep selling nursery rhymes to ignorant *****es/*****s, his album just went certified PLASTIC!
2. Ashanti is wack, has always been wack, will fall off even futher this year because you cant keep making the same songs over and over again using “baby, baby, baby” plus she ruined one of the greatest remix songs ever “Biggie’s one more chance”……..Blasphemous/Blasphemus? ***** i dont know, you get what i mean!
3. TI will snitch and get out of doing 15 years as a repeat violent felon.
4. Jay will marry Beyonce because shes fine, shes rich, shes talented, and shes fine and rich!
5. Deep south rap will start its long, painful, overdue suicide by putting out some of the worst sounding ***** ever recorded, of course 3 or 4 artist will survive, but for the most part that ***** is dead!
6. SMDH will still be the dumbest, fake pic posting, illiterate, ape, coon, porchmonkey, jiggaboo, spearchuckin’, illegal alien *****in’ fat white ***** impersonating a black woman on Bossip.
7. Dr Dre’s and Eminem’s albums will be out by the end of the year to save Hip Hop.
8. 50% of *****s/niggettes who are supporting/backing Obama will be too lazy to get to the polls, Obama will win anyway but only by a slim margin.
9. 70% of all dumb, fat, unemployed, nappy weave wearin’ deep south ho’s will get pregnant this year.
10. Its6amHoGetOut will continue to be the most interesting person on Bossip.
I love me some me, and 3% of you too!
THE ALBUM IS H.A.W.T…..I’m Illy, the song with J.T., Rhianna, Swagga like us, I don’t have to skip a single song on this album. This album should have been platinum, fans ya’ll slipping, GO OUT AND SUPPORT YO BOY.
ITS THE KING BIYATCH!!!
TI featuring Rihanna “Live Your Life” is FIRE!!!
Its6amHoGetOut
You are sad and angry. Poor thing…I feel for you.
it’s hot. the single on the radio are good , of course. From the cd..The Rhianna joint is hot, the Usher joint on there is hot, the one with Jayzee and Kanye, -”swagga like us”..even the John Legend song was tight. he has at least 8 or 9 hot ones. it’s a press play.
who is 6am? is that one of the bossip staff?
@6am
I have give it to you..you are very funny…but somtimes I wonder if you just need a really good
f*ck…..
GO ANG COP THAT. PAPER TRAIL IS THE BIDNESS!!!
That paper trail is the truth its real yall gotta back it
Paper Trail is hot. Every song is fire. Definitely cop that.
T.I. also has the #1 and #2 song in the country. He just broke the record he set last month going 80-1 on the Hot 100 with Live Your Life. He also replaced himself at the #1 spot which hasn’t been done since Usher did it in 2004. He’s doing big things.
the album is SLAMMIN! especially diggin’ the swagger like us jawn with wayne, kanye & hov..its got a tight beat. and dead and gone with timberlake is on repeat at my house. overall, AMAZING album. definitely check it out bossip
swag? he has no swag!!!
weezy and t.i. are FAR from having swag.
weezy has old man syndrome and t.i. has H E R P E S.
i have never been a t.i fan, huge fan of lil wayne, but i have to say this is a better album then the carter 3, the song with JT is hott, real talkk
i am from atlanta and heard most of the album before it came out, but that song with j. timberlake is the best song on the album among a host of other good ones. this is definitley t.i.’s best album since trap muzik and urban legend. the last 2 seemed like a more commercial t.i. i’m glad he got back to writing down his damn lyrics too
6. SMDH will still be the dumbest, fake pic posting, illiterate, ape, coon, porchmonkey, jiggaboo, spearchuckin’, illegal alien *****in’ fat white ***** impersonating a black woman on Bossip.
—————————————————LMAO I SECOND THAT!!
I Love the song Tip has with the American Dream,I think it;s called “he can’t love you like I do”that song makes you wanna do what Bush has been doing to niccas for the last 4 yrs. Screw all night long(LMAO).Obama now.Yes WE CAN!!!
i bEEN fEELIN T.I.P fOR a mINUTE mYSELF hEARD sOME oF tHE aLBUM…lIKE iT…mY uNCLE iNSIST tHAT TI iS wORKING fOR tHE fEDS nOW sINCE hE cAUGHT tHAT cASE. i hOPE hE iS wELL. hE nEEDS tO cOME bY tHE hOUSE, lET mE hOOK uP a mEAL…iT lOOK lIKE…cOME oN tINY fEED tHE mAN!
PAPER TRAIL WILL BE ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS IN HIP HOP HISTORY!!!!! T.I. REALLY HAS PUT HIS ALL IN THIS AND IT SHOWED I AM PROUD TO BE A FAN !!!
If you know what’s good for you, you’ll cop that new album quickly! The album is fire from start to finish and I’m surprised it didn’t sell a milli in seven days.
T.I is the Charlie Parker of Hip Hop. Miles Davis predicted this.