Swagga Like Us

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"Swagga Like Us"
Single by T.I. & Jay-Z featuring Kanye West and Lil Wayne
from the album Paper Trail
Released	September 6, 2008
Format	Digital download, airplay
Recorded	2008
Genre	Hip hop, alternative hip hop
Length	5:29 (Album Version) 4:14 (Radio Edit)
Label	Grand Hustle, Atlantic
Writer(s)	Clifford Harris, Jr., Shawn Carter, Kanye West, Dwayne Carter, Jr.,Mathangi Arulpragasam, Topper Headon, Mick Jones, Wesley Pentz, Paul Simonon, Joe Strummer
Producer	Kanye West
T.I. singles chronology
"Wish You Would" (2008) "Swagga Like Us" (2008) "Live Your Life" (2008)
Jay-Z singles chronology "I Know" (2008) "Swagga Like Us" (2008) "Jockin' JAY-Z" (2008) Kanye West singles chronology "Stay Up! (Viagra)" (2008) "Swagga Like Us" (2008) "Plastic" (2008) Lil Wayne singles chronology "Official Girl" (2008) "Swagga Like Us" (2008) "Mrs. Officer" (2008)

"Swagga Like Us" is a song by rappers T.I. and Jay-Z, released as the second single from T.I.'s sixth studio album, Paper Trail. It was slated to appear on Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3, however he later confirmed all songs with Auto-Tune are being called off the album.^[1] It was released on September 6, 2008.^[2] The song features Kanye West and Lil Wayne both using auto-tune in their verses. The song's instrumental is based on a mixed sample of M.I.A. singing "no one on the corner has swagga like us", from her hit single "Paper Planes".^[3][4]

The song was nominated for the Grammy for Best Rap Song and won the Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group at the 51st Grammy Awards.^[5][6] This song was number 22 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Best Songs of 2008.^[7] T.I., Kanye West, Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, and M.I.A. (who was 9 months pregnant at the time) performed this song at the 2009 Grammy Awards.

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Clipse made a remix on their mixtape Road To Till The Casket Drops. Diddy has made a freestyle featuring Cassie on "Swagga Like Us", and renamed it "Swagger Like Puff". Trey Songz has also made one under the name of "Swagga Like Songz". Also, Young Hot Rod and Tony Yayo, G-Unit Records Recording Artists, Drake, Freeway, Twista, and Flo Rida made their own freestyles to the song. Tony Yayo did his version titled "Swagga Like Us Freestyle". On November 10, 2008, Chamillionaire released his own freestyle on the song for his mixtape Mixtape Messiah 5, titled "Swagga Like Koop". Rick Ross has also done his own freestyle remix, stated to be retaliating for being left out on the song.

Jim Jones has recorded "Jackin' Swagger from Us" with Twista, Noe and Lil Wayne which takes shots at T.I. and Jay-Z for allegedly stealing their styles. The song is a bonus track on his album Pray IV Reign.^[8][9]

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Digital single

[edit] Charts

In the U.S. the song made a "Hot Shot Debut"^{[citation needed]} on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 5 with 139,000 digital downloads in its first week, making it both Jay-Z's and T.I.'s highest debut on the chart ^[10]. It's also Jay-Z's third top five hit, as well as T.I.'s fourth on the chart. The song made a Hot Shot Debut on the Pop 100 at number 19 on the week of September 18, 2008. On September 21, 2008, the song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 33^[11] on downloads alone. On the Canadian Hot 100 chart, it debuted at number 19 also on digital downloads.^{[citation needed]}

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