No. 25: T.I. (Or Maybe T.I.P.) Takes A Trip To The Islands
Because the song at No. 25 is what it is.
Sure, the lyrical gun talk (gats in waistbands, pistols shoved in faces, a Frank Lucas namedrop) and trigger-cocking sound effects are a little more icky now that the author of No. 25 is under house arrest for a federal gun charge, but the sly “You Know What It Is” is still a highlight on the anticlimatic T.I. Vs. T.I.P.. While I’m always gonna be a sucker for T.I.’s sidling drawl and taste in button-ups (little anchors!), after about the sixth iPod rewind in a row I realized this song had lodged into my brain thanks to the maddening plink-plonk beat, a backing track catchy enough to survive a shouting Wyclef repeatedly rubber-stamping the fact that he was one of the guys who helped cook it up.
T.I. – “You Know What It Is” [YouTube] T.I. [Official site] Idolator’s 2007 Top 40 List Of Awesomeness
