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Feb 7, 2013A 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, 2013Trouble 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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Jan 8, 2013Trouble 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, 2012This 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 31, 2012Trouble 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.
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Dec 21, 2012His eighth album fuses lordly self-mythologizing with epic self-searching.
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Dec 18, 2012The one-time King of the South makes himself scarce on this anonymous and occasionally mawkish effort.
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Entertainment WeeklyDec 18, 2012His 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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Dec 18, 2012It 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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 31 out of 44
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Mixed: 9 out of 44
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Negative: 4 out of 44
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