"So while I'm sorting out my next situation, I'm blessed enough to be able to control my destiny and put music out as quickly as I want to. During an interview with TIME about his role in Roots. "Having just exited my deal at Columbia, I was a rogue artist, busting creativity, just waiting to put music in the marketplace," he said. has been teasing a new album, The Dime Trap, for months, and now he’s finally dropping the first single from that album, Dope. said he's looking forward to producing indie music. In an interview with HitsDailyDouble, T.I. The rapper dropped one album, Paperwork, produced by Pharrell Williams, on the Columbia label in October.
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left Columbia Records with "no bad blood" after his one-year contact ended, according to Complex. When he took the city on his shoulders and walked it," Complex reports. described that album as "when a young man moved from the streets to come up in a major way. The rapper compared the feel of his upcoming album to Trap Muzik, his sophomore album released back in 2003. The rapper used Twitter to announce the collaboration.
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"I'm breaking it all down, back to the element of where my music first began to interest people, and build it all over again." is gearing up for the release of his next album, Dime Trap, recently tapping comedian Dave Chappelle to contribute in a major way. "You just come to a whole new element, bring it back down and build the process back over again," he said. Instead, he's going for a totally different vibe. is known by the mainstream crowd for chart-topping hits like "Whatever You Like" and "Dead and Gone" and for being featured on Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines," he told MovieWeb in July that he's not trying to top that with the new album.