Dead and Alive!

Song: "Dead and Gone"
Artists: T.I. & Justin Timberlake
Album: Paper Trail
Year: 2008
From: Atlanta, Georgia

Though this album broke through the speakers in fall 08, I was waiting until people would get a good listen of this song on the radio before I wrote about it. This is one of the best songs on T.I.'s album, and it may be just because of Timberlake. The beat just can't be ignored, it's like a swoon- message through T.I.'s alluring raps and rhythms; and all the while J.T. is moaning. Gotta love his moans ("Devil Wouldn't Recognize You" [Madonna's Hard Candy])

Take the "bridge", and I put bridge in quotations because there are so many breaks in this song, a bridge-defined may be difficult:

"I turn my head to the East I don't see nobody by my side
I turn my head to the West still nobody in sight
So I turn my head to the North swallow that pill that they call pride
That old me's dead and gone but the new me will be alright"

It's like out of the slums of T.I.'s rapping pain comes this wake-up call from J.T. The songs ignites in this moment, back to the "Oh!" in the opening 15-second marker. Give it up for J.T. on this track, I don't think many people can incorporate sex sounds into a "had-one-of-them-days" rap song. I turn my to the east! Where do you look? Sometimes I swallow that pill, but it doesn't work- sometimes it does, depending on anxiety levels. I'm rambling and relating, not really rapping.



get it boys.