The last time these two collaborated, they produced one of my favourite R&B/Pop songs of this decade (My Love), which might not be the biggest of accolades considering there weren't many to choose from, in my opinion, but congratulations nevertheless. This however fails to live up to that name, and by quite some margin. Now some may call me a music snob, but for me, the hip hop beats of the past 5/6 years have become more and more generic and uninspiring and serverely lacking in sample content. This, unfortunately, is a prime example of that.

The track starts immediately with the sung chorus by everyone's favourite white Michael Jackson (keep your jokes to yourself), Justin Timberlake. This eases the song into another rap about the hard life of a hip hop artist, trying to get rid of old rep and poor life, carrying on from the message conveyed in Live Your Life. Little hypocritical considering the life they lead now, but c'est la vie. The backing beat isn't the greatest bit of music you'll hear in your life time, also containing the classic "Aaay!" hip hop vocal, almost as famous as the Amen break these days.

T.I. has the potential and some would say he currently is the best hip hop artist at the moment, in terms of artistic quality, with songs like Why You Wanna, Porn Star and Swagga Like Us; his raps can be enough to re-enthuse faith into the hip hop genre. However, with this great power comes great responsibility and his following two tracks, Live Your Life and Dead And Gone, have taken a more "pop" route, appealing to the masses and sounding less hip hop and more "down with the kids, word". To cap it all off, Justin Timberlake sings the chorus to add the finishing touches to this hip-pop machine.

I suppose if you were born in the last 10 years, this sort of music would be bread and butter and sound pretty good, but for those born much earlier, growing up with the likes of Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan and Tu Pac (while Biggie and Tu Pac were still alive), you know T.I. could have done much better. Not to say this track is trash, it's just not as good as it could be.