After announcing he was a shareholder of Tidal, there was speculation T.I. also revealed he is one of the new co-owners of online streaming service, Tidal. announced he signed a distribution deal with fellow American rapper Jay-Z's Roc Nation for Dime Trap. On February 22, 2016, before his "pop-up performance" at Greenbriar Mall in his hometown of Atlanta, T.I. explained the reasoning behind releasing the project under his alternative pseudonym, saying although it's the second installment to his trilogy, it will be his first TIP album. In an interview with, he addressed his situation: "Having just exited my deal at Columbia, I was a rogue artist, busting creativity, just waiting to put music in the marketplace, 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, and was able to release a Tip album, which I had wanted to do for a long time." On September 22, 2015, in an interview with, T.I. announced his departure from Columbia Records. in a September 2018 interview with Billboard.
I’ll talk about the things that really matter to me now. With Dime Trap, this is the evolution of trap music and what I learned and some of the epiphanies along the way. The first record Trap Muzik, it was about the experiences I endured and the lifestyle before I made it in the music industry. revealed Dime Trap would contain 10 songs. 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" He also added that "It is a lot more urban, a lot more edgy, a lot more unapologetically ghetto than Paperwork". I feel like, when you’ve done hits like " Whatever You Like" and " Dead and Gone," when you do those mainstream kind of " Blurred Lines"-ish kind of records, you don’t go and try to top "Blurred Lines." You just come to a whole new element, bring it back down and build the process back over again. I just released the first teaser from it yesterday and it’s going to be an extension or a continuation of the vibe from Trap Muzik. was asked about his music career and his upcoming album: "My tenth album, The Dime Trap, I’m working on it. would later give the album a new title in June 2015, when he rechristened it The Dime Trap. explained that the album will be "unapologetically gangsta" and boast a "trap sound." When pressed for an explanation of the title's meaning, T.I. announced he re-titled the sequel to Paperwork, from The Return to Trap's Open.
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I got a whole album full of the coming up next called The Return. "Conceptually, if you listen to Paperwork all the way down, sonically it’s cohesive. had stated: "I kind of divided them into concepts,” referring to the over 200 songs he recorded during the Paperwork sessions. the former is going to be reminiscent of his second album Trap Muzik (2003), while the latter is going to be "like a gangster version of 808s & Heartbreak".
said the next album, or rather, "second act" is The Return, and following that, the "third act" is called Love & Liability. During an interview with Life+Times, T.I. revealed that Paperwork is part of a trilogy and would be followed up with The Return and Love & Liability. Upon signing a recording contract with Columbia Records and releasing his ninth album Paperwork in October 2014, T.I. The album was supported by three singles "Jefe", "Wraith" and "The Weekend". The production was handled by high-profile record producers such as Swizz Beatz, Scott Storch, Bangladesh, Cardiak and David Banner, among others. Dime Trap also contains narration from American comedian Dave Chappelle.
Paak, Victoria Monét, Watch the Duck, Sam Hook and London Jae. The album features guest appearances from Yo Gotti, Teyana Taylor, Jeezy, Meek Mill, Young Thug, YFN Lucci, Anderson.
worked on several other projects as well, including Da' Nic (2015), Bankroll Mafia (2016), Us or Else: Letter to the System (2016) and We Want Smoke (2017). It serves as the second installment in a trilogy that was preceded by his ninth album Paperwork, and was later followed by his eleventh The L.I.B.R.A. The album was initially announced in 2014 and underwent several working titles, namely The Return and Trap's Open. It was released on October 5, 2018, by Grand Hustle Records and Epic Records. Dime Trap is the tenth studio album by American rapper T.I.