T-pain: Thr33 Rings Album Review

It’s been a month since I first heard his first single which is “Can’t Believe It” with Lil Wayne and since that time I’m so excited reviewing his album okay okay here it go.

For me Thr33 Rings is more Dance/Pop album with a touch hip hop with the appearance from hip hops superstars such as Kanye West, T. I., Lil Wayne and Ludacris. Featuring those hip hop superstars works best doing the collaborations and it don’t fully compromise by trying to imitate T-pain.

Track by track I like “Can’t Believe it” with Lil Wayne, “Therapy” with Kanye West, “It Ain’t Me,” with T.I and Akon, “Blowing up” with Ciara, “Chopped and Skrewed” with Ludacris he takes the advantage of a double-time flow, repetition and some simple vocal tricks and most lastly “Change” with Akon, Diddy and Mary Blige is one of the superb track on the album.

Even if you’re a certified T-Pain hater, cuts such as “Reality Show” and “Blowing Up” show Pain living up to his self-proclaimed title of “ringleader.” Taking a break from the monotonous synth-heavy beats, T-Pain plays the background and allows more skilled crooners such as Musiq, Raheem DeVaughn and Ciara to hit the booth, sans Auto-Tune. In addition to being quality dance tracks, they showcase T-Pain’s potential as both a producer and assembler of talent.

Karaoke,” T-Pain tries to remind people of his early Tallahassee days–when his lewd raps drew more attention than anything he’d ever sung. In the history of Hip Hop there have been worse bars spit. But with DJ Khaled annoyingly hollering on the hook, and seemingly making it his personal mission to say the word “nigga” at every occasion, it becomes another offhand track.

Hip Hop head or not, T-Pain’s omnipresence guarantees you will encounter Thr33 Rings at the club, the party and on numerous cell phones, via the ringtone market, well into the early part of 2009. The album succeeds when T-Pain presents his material as a Dance/Pop album which makes use of high-powered cameos from the best-selling Hip Hop and R&B superstars. With so many both copying and condemning his style, it’s understandable that he would attempt to address the subject and even prove he’s more diverse than we give him credit for. These efforts are hit and miss–and the misses are the type of fodder the skip forward button on your CD or MP3 player was made for. But the same tension also works to his benefit at times.

Tracklist:

1. Welcome to Thr33 Ringz
2. Ringleader Man
3. Chopped N Skrewed
4. Take a Ride [Skit]
5. Freeze
6. Blowing Up
7. Can’t Believe It
8. It Ain’t Me”5
9. Feed the Lions [Skit]
10. Therapy
11. Long Lap Dance
12. Reality Show
13. Keep Going
14. Superstar Lady
15. Change
16. Digital
17. Karaoke
18. Nappy Boy or Die
19. Let’s Go
20. We Got Love
21. Tha Truth
22. Bad Side
23. Phantom

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