{"id":1154,"date":"2026-09-19T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/?p=1154"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:47:08","slug":"t-i-was-under-house-arrest-when-he-wrote-paper-trail-one-night-just-blaze-sent-him-the-beat-that-would-become-live-your-life-with-rihanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/?p=1154","title":{"rendered":"T.I. was under house arrest when he wrote Paper Trail. One night, Just Blaze sent him the beat that would become \u201cLive Your Life\u201d with Rihanna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T.I. was under house arrest when he wrote Paper Trail. One night, Just Blaze sent him the beat that would become \u201cLive Your Life\u201d with Rihanna<span class=\"html-span xexx8yu xyri2b x18d9i69 x1c1uobl x1hl2dhg x16tdsg8 x1vvkbs x3nfvp2 x1j61x8r x1fcty0u xdj266r xat24cr xm2jcoa x1mpyi22 xxymvpz xlup9mm x1kky2od\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t50\/1\/16\/1f525.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udd25\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><\/span><br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>When it was time to find someone for the hook, Gee Roberson suggested Rihanna. T.I. didn\u2019t believe she would do it.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>But there was only one way to find out.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>Rihanna was in Italy filming a commercial when they sent her the track. She made room in her schedule and recorded her vocals at a studio in Milan.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>\u201cLive Your Life\u201d debuted at number 80 on the Billboard Hot 100.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>One week later, it was number one.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>The 80-to-1 explosion was the biggest jump to the top in chart history at the time. It became T.I.\u2019s third number one and Rihanna\u2019s fifth.<br class=\"html-br\" \/><br class=\"html-br\" \/>One beat. One unlikely yes. One historic number one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T.I. was under house arrest when he wrote Paper Trail. One night, Just Blaze sent him the beat that would become \u201cLive Your Life\u201d with RihannaWhen it was time to find someone for the hook, Gee Roberson suggested Rihanna. T.I. didn\u2019t believe she would do it.But there was only one way to find out.Rihanna was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmnewfeed.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}