T.I., Fans Reacts To Atlanta Falcons Debut Song 'Rise Up' For THIS Reason: 'Who Did You Call?'

American football team Atlanta Falcons dropped "Rise Up," the new anthem to get their fans hyped up for the season, but instead of getting hyped, fans are majorly annoyed.

The city of Atlanta is known for bearing the music industry some big names, including Gucci Mane, Ludacris, Young Thug, 21 Savage, Lil John, T.I., and many more.

So the artist the Falcons chose to sing the new anthem left fans scratching their heads, wondering, why did the Falcons choose a New Jersey native to sing the Falcons' song.

Criticisms

The Atlanta Falcons released the teaser of "Rise Up" on Sept 10 via Twitter and Instagram. The latter garnered over 900 retweets, 8,000 quote tweets, and 6,000 likes as of this writing.

It features the 33-year-old artist wearing a number seven jersey and singing, "Red, black, and white, yeah/ We gone rise up/ ATL that city, we go higher." Rotimi even commented on the post, writing, "the new anthem," with fire emojis. However, Atlanta-based rapper T.I. did not share the same sentiments or hype as he addressed the song via an 11-minute video. He clarified that he had no problems with Rotimi, but with the Falcons for choosing someone who is not local. "I ain't got no problem with Rotimi. Rotimi is a good cat, man. I f**k with Rotimi. He a brother, he's an ally. He's a brother and we f**k with him, [sic]" he said. "We have so much culture, so much talent in the city, man. So many hardcore, die-hard Falcon fans that happen to be A-list talent in the city" he continued. To explain his dismay, the 41-year-old rapper listed names who would have performed the song for the football team. "Who did you call? I know Quavo would've did it. I know 2 Chainz would've did it. I know Killer Mike would've did it. I mean, I would've did it. I know Jeezy would've did it. N***a, bruh, who approved that? Who's sitting in these meetings? [sic]"

Animosity

T.I. noted that by not choosing an Atlanta native to perform the song, it would create a "wedge" between the fans and the team, "I hate to see it 'cause now you starting the season off with automatic animosity between you and the fans. Why? Why? Why create such a wedge for yourself?" His words rang true as the fans also took to Twitter and Instagram to share their sentiments regarding the debut song, with one commenting, "Yea this season is over with." Others commented: "All the Atlanta artists busy?" "This Ain't It... It's #NotAtlanta," "So Rotimi part of the brotherhood now? Lol," and "Man this shit is so trash. Fire y'all whole marketing department. Gah damn man we gotta do something right, cuz this is not it." The public's sentiments on Twitter are no different. A user wrote, "Twitter gone make them folks delete that s**t lol."