T.I.

Trap Muzik

Shostakovich is much "tighter"

Review Score:

(2/10)
I bought this T.I. Album hoping to hear sounds of a beautiful orchestra, because the cover obviously makes it appear to be a classical album. I wanted to settle down in front of the fireplace reading a novel by Hershy Roomsfeld and hear soothing, wonderful sounds. But when I put in T.I.'s album I heard something completely different. His compositions consist of nothing but silly drum machine sounds. He doesn't even sing! He simply chants words and yells. I did not know that people made CDs that sounded like this. He even uses curse words and talks about activities like sexual intercourse. I had to turn the album off because my great nephew Thaddeus Samuel Johnson III was in the room, and he never hears such vulgarity at the boy's academy where he is tutored. The rest of T.I.'s lyrics consist of words which I do not know, like "tite" "phat" "crunk" "shawty" "gangstaz" and "thugz." Would someone please define these?

If you want to hear good compositions, buy any recording of the Symphonies, concertos, or preludes by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. His use of texture and harmony is exquisite, and he does not tout himself as a "crunk thug shawty gangsta pimp."

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