But I feel like its your ninth album and youve got to use your seniority and your success and your relationships and resources, youve got to use them to do something significantly different.The album is his first project under Columbia Records, after his contract with Atlantic Records expired, following the release of his eighth album Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head (2012).Paperwork derives its title from T.I.s most successful project, his sixth album Paper Trail (2008).
![]() On November 22, 2013, after searching for a label to sign his Grand Hustle imprint, as well as himself, T.I announced that he signed a record deal with Columbia Records, to release his ninth studio album. He also revealed that his longtime collaborator and an American musician Pharrell Williams (who has been influential in his move to Columbia), would serve as the albums executive producer. T.I. was planning to release an album, under the title, called Trouble Man II: He Who Wears The Crown as the sequel to his previous album. ![]() ![]() Later in the year, T.I finally revealed that the album would be titled Paperwork. In April 2014, when speaking on the albums title, he said: Paperwork is official. Also, if someone has paperwork on you, then it could be some trouble. Right now, music is going in a different direction and it is in a different place. However, theres a place for the story that needs to be told from our perspective. I always wanted to do a continuation of that but without saying, Part 2. I just tried to figure out another way to relate this next project to that one without making it a sequel. In thinking of other things that I guess had the word paper in it, Paperwork was the most prominent title that jumped out at me. As I was getting to think about it, anything that you have that is authentic, lets say a watch, a car, a phone, whatever it is, the certification of that authenticity is paperwork. Whether its a title for a car, deed to a house, a certificate for a Rolex. Me being an artist thats been known to be authentic and making music that has been known to be authentic, the certification of it is Paperwork. It just has an incredible amount of soul and a perfect hybrid between the ahead-of-the-curve, new-school sound and the classic, nostalgic, soulful sound of yesteryear. This album or should I say these three albums, because this album has kind of turned into a trilogy. We just have to really platform it, promote it, market it, and strategically apply it. But this album, we hope to make a film that will consist of three short stories. And each of these three short stories will combine six or seven videos from these three albums. And it would star me playing characters. But these characters would find themselves in situations that would allow the music to narrate the circumstances.
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