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Feb 21, 201380By combining the deep-bass beats and fast-spitting rhymes of Trap Muzik with mature, more-to-the-story rhymes, Tip finds himself back in the limelight. [Feb-Mar 2013, p.89]
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Dec 31, 201280The project is one of his best thus far by virtue of him composing an album in which listeners can empathize with how he views religion ("Hallelujah"), the club ("Ball"), women ("Guns and Roses," "Can You Learn," and "Crusin'") and so forth.
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Dec 31, 201280T.I. is more lyrical than he often gets credit for, but it's his "swag" that truly separates him from the crowd, and Trouble Man is dripping with so much swag T.I. should bottle it and sell it.
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Dec 18, 201280This is a strong return to form for the self-proclaimed King of the South.
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Dec 18, 201275It seems cliche to say it, but Trouble Man: Heavy Is The Head has a little bit for everyone.
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Jan 7, 201370Trouble Man is his first album since that second bid; it finds him finally returning to the lane that he abandoned somewhere around the time he included two Wyclef Jean songs on T.I. vs. Tip.
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Dec 21, 201270Tip might be eager for another major hit. But fortunately, most of the album finds him delivering more modest pleasures, which, at least at the moment, work just fine, too.
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Feb 7, 201360A record that finely straddles his gruff past and glitzier present. DJ Toomp buoys T.I. on Trap Back Jumpin. An incandescent collaboration with André 3000 balances out an unfortunate Pink cameo.
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Jan 8, 201360Trouble Man's not the album you'll be recommending to less devout followers of the T.I. saga the way you would have King or Trap Muzik, but it's easily the most satisfying to fans of those albums in a long time.
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Dec 31, 201260This is a step forward from the MC's previous effort, but it's been six years since the he has made an album that must be heard.
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Dec 21, 201260His eighth album fuses lordly self-mythologizing with epic self-searching.
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Dec 18, 201258His eighth album exhausts with pointless proclamations of hardness, only occasionally turning inward to contemplate actual heavy issues. [21 Dec 2012, p.67]
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Jan 8, 201350Trouble Man's scattershot approach makes it the realest album the guy could make in 2012, but that doesn't make it any good.
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Dec 18, 201250The one-time King of the South makes himself scarce on this anonymous and occasionally mawkish effort.
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Dec 18, 201250It surrounds a handful of his sharpest, most insightful songs with far less effective material--tracks that either vague out into club-rap utility or sag hopelessly under the weight of cornball sentiment.
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Dec 31, 201249Trouble Man is less senile in general than "Hello," but for too many of the album's 71 minutes, we listen in horror as T.I., 32, tries flaccidly to get down with the kids.