The Greatest By T.I. Feat. Manny Fresh
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I had totally had forgotten this song existed until it popped up randomly on my Ipod the other day. I feel like this era is somewhat forgotten in the ears of many people. In fact, I think it left a bad taste in many peoples (obnoxious purists) mouths but I don’t think I agree. The early 2000’s, in my opinion, was a great time for popular rap. I say this cause it was an era where 4 or the five top producers were actually awesome. I’m speaking of Timberland, Kanye, The neptunes and Manny fresh (I excluded Swizz beats cause he’s a fucking hack). During that time, pretty much every song on the radio was produced by one of those 5 guys. That led to a shit ton of great singles. Some by equally great artists (Jay-z, the Clipse, Mystikal) and some by artists that never made the leap (Tweet, Petey pablo, Drag-on).
This song was off T.I.’s first album “I’m serious” and , much like that album, no one gave a shit about it. To be honest, I discovered it well after it had dropped when I got into his “trap Muzik” (which is EXTREMELY underrated). Regardless, is a fun song with a dope Manny Fresh beat that just let’s TI go off about whatever he likes. Who can hate on that? (Aside from the majority of people who read this blog)
Phat Friend
Sweeping generalizations and unicorns
Phat Friend 
Always kept it to myself that I enjoyed TI… especially among the un
Under ground crowd. Failed hard on that one.
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This is off his 2004 album Urban Legend.
Love this mannie beat too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux_chj8Eb9I
This is off his 2004 album “Urban Legend”
actually off of “urban legend” – TI’s 3rd record
i feel like i missed out on a lot of good mainstream music in this time period because i was still a little elitist, but mostly because i didnt want to take the chance of turning on the radio and hearing Ja Rule.
Any chance u can do a “best of” Mannie Fresh beats?
And I know there is no god because Swizz Beats still has a career AND has Alicia Keys. fuck.
swizz beats at his finest:
So good. I wrote a whole blog based on that clip a while back. I think ti was called “Rock and rap: It will never be” or some version of that title.