Slide Show
by T.I.

Album: Paper Trail (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • This features and was co-written by the soul singer-songwriter John Legend, who told MTV News that it was an easy recording for him to do. He explained: " [T.I.] just laid out the format of the song, what he asked me to do for it. I knocked it out in an hour or something. The chorus was already written, then I wrote a little bridge at the end. That was it."
  • This was produced by Kanye West, who also helmed "Swagga Like Us" on the same album.
  • On this track T.I. travels down memory lane comparing life to a slide show of images showing experiences and events in his younger days.

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