We never saw it coming because of the history of their competition, but according to T.I. and Ludacris, a coaction between the pair was never outside the realm of possibility.
"There's a time and plaza for everything, and forthwith is the time," 'Cris told MTV News entirely about the track "Wish You Would." It's a cut from Luda's next LP, which is due in October.
"This [upcoming] album, Theater of the Mind, is an event, and all the songs on it ar events," Luda said. "I felt care there was no larger event in hip-hop at this instant than me and T.I. working together."
"Me and swell never had no problems," T.I. elaborated a few days agone while calling in to DJ Self's Sirius Satellite Radio demonstrate. "It was always tumult between our camp and his encampment. Us as the bosses of our companies, everyone is gonna follow our lead. We'd figure if it ain't no job and we don't have no issues, no gripe, then there's no understanding we shouldn't be able-bodied to get together and make music. That was an executive decision that was made on both our behalves."
The power play has resonated positively so far with members of both factions.
"I was surprised just as much as everybody else was," Playaz Circle member Tity Boi said Monday in Houston at the Ozone Awards when he heard of the duette. "I talked to Luda, and he said it was sentence to sit down down, do business, hold grown-man moves. Both of them got albums climax out. Time to examine new things. ['Cris] did something for T.I. too that nonentity heard up to now. It's around to arrive out presently. It's a good move."
"It's showing that once capital minds pose their differences aside, they can make something materialise," Alfamega, who's signed to T.I.'s Grand Hustle Records, said at the Ozone Awards loss carpet. "That's two grown men � not two grown males, grown men!"
Theater of the Mind is slated for October 21, while Tip's Paper Trail comes out September 30.
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