Even when it comes to new music, T.I. has Hollywood on his mind.
The Atlanta rapper — who recently accepted a role in 2015's Ant-Man, starring Paul Rudd — is set to release his movie-themed ninth studio album, Paperwork: The Motion Picture.
Billboard reports the release will be available Oct. 21 on Grand Hustle/Columbia Records.
That means it'll beat Lil Wayne's highly anticipated Tha Carter V to shelves by a week. MissInfoTV notes that Paperwork has already spawned the singles "About the Money" featuring Young Thug and "No Medicore" featuring Iggy Azalea.
No tracklist is available yet, but T.I. has already announced that Rick Ross, Young Jeezy, Nipsey Hussle, The-Dream, Lil Boosie will appear on the album, while Pharrell will serve as executive producer.
The music-oriented announcement means that we can focus on Tip Harris as a rapper again. But the Ant-Man role means he won't be leaving the motion picture game anytime soon.
This March, he sat down with HypeTrack to discuss the origins of his acting career.
You know what, with the examples that were laid before me like Ice Cube, I knew if I did a lot of things right then I would have the opportunity to end up where others did. But it wasnt until I got my first shot at it and finished my first movie and I saw how good it turned out, that I knew I could actually act. Even during ATL, I didn't know if I was doing a good job or a bad job. The studio was raving over the performance and I took that as an opportunity to keep going.
Acting is something I can do until I'm 50, 60. I don't see music as something I can do when I'm that old. I'm setting my self up to transition.
