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TRACK

T.I.

Touchdown

Release date: 3rd July 2007

From T.I. VS T.I.P. (Deluxe Version)
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About This Track

T.I. and Eminem trade verses over a track built on the kind of swagger and regional pride that defined mid-2000s hip-hop. The song opens with Eminem's hook, a celebration of touchdown moments across America's heartland and South, where the pair promise to turn any arrival into an event. T.I. moves first, painting himself as unstoppable and untethered, moving between coasts and islands with the ease of someone for whom constraint has become impossible. His boasts are precise and material: the parking lot flexing, the private planes, the sense of a man who has transcended the usual rules. Eminem's verse arrives with a Midwest swagger that mirrors T.I.'s Southern confidence, the two voices working as equals rather than feature and headliner. The production sits in that sweet spot between trunk-rattling bass and the kind of crisp, clean production that lets every syllable land. What emerges is less a collaboration than a mutual recognition, two regional titans meeting on neutral ground and finding common cause in the simple, uncomplicated pleasure of arrival and excess.

"Touchdown" is a track by T.I., from the album T.I. VS T.I.P. (Deluxe Version), released 3rd July 2007. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Touchdown

[Intro: Eminem]

Haha

[Chorus: Eminem & T.I.]

When we touchdown, in the Midwest we okay

E'rybody know them southern boys love that bass

Atlanta go bananas, Alabama, 'weesiana

Mississippi, Ten-a-keys, every ma'fuckin' state, when we

Touchdown, go right from the plane to the Range, when we

Touchdown, on a private plane, gettin' brain 'til we

Touchdown, there ain't no way to keep 'em quiet

With T.I. and Shady, baby, we 'bout to incite a riot when we touchdown

[Verse 1: T.I.]

When we get in town, you know how we gettin' down

Pull up clean, then we hop on out, snatch all the freaks, then walk on out

I'm livin' what they talking 'bout, shinin' if it dark or not

That one hundred E-X-double R

You'll find that in the parkin' lot

You barkin' up the wrong tree, I do this shit for zone three

Four, five and six as well as one, Atlanta I'm forever, son

Still be on whatever coast, ridin' blowin' heavy smoke

Ayy, Em, you better tell them folk, won't hesitate to let 'em go

They know I put that green light on them haters

Keep on tryin' me, I put that beam right on your tater (pow!)

Now you don't wanna see T.I.P. he outrageous

Try to keep him in a cage, but somehow he keep escapin'

That's why I be on vacation, Virgin Island I be takin'

Private planes out to Spain, my G4 flyin', I ain't fakin'

The money ain't a thang, think I'm lyin', you're mistaken

You can find long lines of all kinds of bitches waitin'

[Chorus: Eminem & T.I.]

When we touchdown, in the Midwest we okay

E'rybody know them southern boys love that bass

Atlanta go bananas, Alabama, 'weesiana

Mississippi, Ten-a-keys, every ma'fuckin' state, when we

Touchdown, go right from the plane to the Range, when we

Touchdown, on a private plane, gettin' brain 'til we

Touchdown, there ain't no way to keep 'em quiet

With T.I. and Shady, baby, we 'bout to incite a riot when we touchdown

[Verse 2: Eminem]

Welcome to the Midwest, yes, where them Detroit playas ball

Like you have no idea, the boy is here

Got the whole place looking like it's candy painted

Ain't it like we left the kids at home

And just let 'em loose with the crayons?

Fuck, I just hit a jogger, people lookin' like Frogger

They hoppin' out of the way

Whenever they see Marshall's car comin'

The kids painted my windows with black permanent marker

And let the rest of the car carpet color like swirl pops

And I got the bass thumpin'

But I'm bound to bump into somethin'

Kids are flyin' through the air lookin' like they krumpin'

The way they tumblin', I gotta do somethin'

But as soon as I hit the car wash to get the tar off

They just right back at it tomorrow

They're like, "Dad, this is in, so you're with the trends."

"This is for the pimps

Listening to Mims, nail polish on the rims."

And now it's custom chrome, but I gotta go do a show

So go on with your bad self, just have it back to normal

[Chorus: Eminem & T.I.]

When I touchdown, in the Midwest we okay

E'rybody know them southern boys love that bass

Atlanta go bananas, Alabama, 'weesiana

Mississippi, Ten-a-keys, every ma'fuckin' state, when we

Touchdown, go right from the plane to the Range, when we

Touchdown, on a private plane, gettin' brain 'til we

Touchdown, there ain't no way to keep 'em quiet

With T.I. and Shady, baby, we 'bout to incite a riot when we touchdown

[Verse 3: T.I.]

From my arrival, until my departure

Guarantee I put this d-i-c-k in somebody daughter

Ayy, I still have my way with the ladies way cross the water

Flew to Paris from Haiti, did some shit that I thought of

It's ironic that the shit that we vomit makes us iconic

The threat to corporate America

That's why they runnin' from me

How could they be so ignorant?

Look what hip-hop done brung us!

It's allowed us to run a business, legitimated our moneys

Got us out of the ghettos and relocated our mommies

I made it all the way here, ain't no way you takin' it from me

So excuse me, Oprah, honey, I'm sorry, really I promise

But niggas, bitches and hoes do exist, I'm just bein' honest

For that am I being punished? Why is you so astonished?

Nah, I ain't got a degree, just intelligence in abundance

So you ain't gotta like me, I know millions of folks who love me

You can tell how they yellin' and screamin' and waiting for me

[Chorus: Eminem & T.I.]

When I touchdown, in the Midwest we okay

E'rybody know them southern boys love that bass

Atlanta go bananas, Alabama, 'weesiana

Mississippi, Ten-a-keys, every ma'fuckin' state, when we

Touchdown, go right from the plane to the Range, when we

Touchdown, on a private plane, gettin' brain 'til we

Touchdown, there ain't no way to keep 'em quiet

With T.I. and Shady, baby, we 'bout to incite a riot when we touchdown

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Track details

From T.I. VS T.I.P. (Deluxe Version)

2007
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  2. —Don't You Wanna Be High
  3. —My Swag
  4. —My Type
  5. —Respect This Hustle
  6. —Show it to Me
  7. —Touchdown
  8. —You Know What It Is
  9. —Act I: T.I.P.
  10. —The Hottest
  11. —No Sweat
  12. —Act III: T.I. vs T.I.P.: The Confrontation
  13. —Hustlin'
  14. —Help Is Coming
  15. —Raw
  16. —We Do This
  17. —Watch What You Say To Me
  18. —Tell 'Em I Said That
  19. —Act II: T.I.

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Writer
Eminem, Jeff Bass, T.I.
Producer
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Keyboards
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Additional Keyboards
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Mastering Engineer
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Mixing Engineer
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