Live Your Life (T.I. song)

"Live Your Life"
Single by T.I. featuring Rihanna
from the album Paper Trail
B-side"Collect Call"
ReleasedSeptember 8, 2008 (2008-09-08)
RecordedAugust 2007
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Length
  • 5:38 (main version)
  • 4:01 (radio edit)
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T.I. singles chronology
"Ready for Whatever"
(2008)
"Live Your Life"
(2008)
"Just Like Me"
(2008)
Rihanna singles chronology
"Disturbia"
(2008)
"Live Your Life"
(2008)
"Rehab"
(2008)
Music video
"Live Your Life" on YouTube

"Live Your Life" is a song by American rapper T.I., featuring Barbadian singer Rihanna, from T.I.'s sixth studio album, Paper Trail (2008). It was released as the seventh single from the album on September 8, 2008. The song's lyrics speak of T.I.'s rise to fame and optimism of the future. It also gives dedication to the American troops fighting in Iraq. The song both samples and interpolates the 2003 song "Dragostea Din Tei" by O-Zone.

"Live Your Life" was a commercial success worldwide. In the United States, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100, marking T.I.'s third number-one single, and Rihanna's fifth. The song also attained top ten placements in twelve other countries, reaching the top five in Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Furthermore, "Live Your Life" topped the US Mainstream Top 40 and Rap Songs charts and reached number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song was T.I.'s highest charting and most successful single worldwide until "Blurred Lines" in 2013.

The song's accompanying music video, directed by Anthony Mandler, depicts a story of T.I.'s rise to fame in a narrated form, featuring Rihanna performing in a dressing room and bar. The duo performed "Live Your Life" at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards. The song is featured in the 2009 film The Hangover as well as the trailer, the 2015 film Daddy's Home and in the 2021 film The Mitchells vs. the Machines.

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