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King is the fourth studio album by American rapper T.I., released on March 28, 2006 through Grand Hustle Records and Atlantic Records. Recording sessions for the album only took a year in a half to record towards late-2005, T.I. stated in an interview with MTV News. Production was handled by several record producers, including DJ Toomp, Just Blaze, Mannie Fresh, Swizz Beatz, Keith Mack, Travis Barker, The Neptunes, Kevin Khao Cates, Nick Fury Loftin, and Tony Galvin, among others.

Upon its release, King received general acclaim from music critics, earning praise for its varied musical style, opulent production quality, and T.I.'s dichotomous lyrical themes, and including the hit single What You Know where critics praised DJ Toomp's production for the single. The album also earned T.I. several accolades, including a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance and a Grammy Award for Best Rap Song for the smash hit single What You Know . He won the Grammy award for Best Rap Solo Performance for What You Know . The album also appeared at the top of several publications year-end lists of top albums. Initially naming it one of the best albums of 2006, Pitchfork Media placed the album at number 147 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.[3] Stylus Magazine placed the album at number 14 on its list of their Top 50 Albums of 2006.[4]

With a warrant issued in March of 2004 for T.I.'s arrest after he violated his probation of the 1997 drug conviction. He was sentenced to three years in prison.[6] Only to be released one month later, to be granted a work release program that allowed him to continue making music.[7] Also being on probation stemming from a 1998 conviction for violating a state controlled substances act and for giving false information. After being released on probation, he earned a litany of probation violations in several counties around Georgia for offenses ranging from possession of a firearm to possession of marijuana.[6]

Originally to be released as a soundtrack to his big screen acting debut film ATL starting himself T.I., but due to recording to much stuff worth of material he went on and proceeded to start recording his fourth album instead. In a brilliant move, T.I. decided not to release a soundtrack for his movie, ATL, instead making King the musical focus of the motion picture. With that, the album served as a solo joint for T.I. while receiving the same push of a movie soundtrack. That may have helped give T.I. the highest-selling debut of his career.