Sure, EPIPHANY is good for a couple of worthy numbers (first single and "Church" to name a few), but overall, it is nothing but a mess.
Kelly (though excluding nis great new album DOUBLE UP), that the club-centric albums only tend to have one hit. Then, you also have to think mentally, that with such club-savvy artist as T-Pain, Akon, and sometimes R. But I had to indulge and I can't help to say that ultimately EPIPHANY is a disappointment. In some respects with EPIPHANY (which I have to agree with one of the reviewers that this is no "epiphany" by any means), I wish I'd let the album itself pass by and just downloaded "Buy U A Drank". I'm not a big fan of "clubby" R&B albums, but sometimes i give into guilty pleasures. Why you ask? Well my friends, "Buy U A Drank (Shawty Snappin')" was bumping and it was one of the most undeniably catchy (as well as stupid) songs of 2007. So I joined the bandwagon and bought EPIPHANY. In short, this is the kind of album that you should maybe listen to in the store rather than purchase (or don't stores allow that any more?) because Epiphany really isn't much of one. "Suicide" details life after finding out that his girl infected him with HIV, but as another reviewer said, that song could have been written a little better. What's more, a lot of the songs aren't very memorable, like "Yo Stomach", "69", or the badly produced "Backseat Action" (but T-Pain and Shawnna didn't sound like a winning combination anyway).Įven when T tries to change the subject, he still has problems. T usually talks about either getting drunk or having sex - actually, most of the time he talks about a little bit of both, like in "Buy U a Drank" and the filler track "Tipsy". And the obligatory reggae crossover "Shottas" (with Kardinal Offishall and Cham) is really just a whole bunch of noise.įor the most part, there isn't a lot of variety on this album. But songs like "Church" and "Put It Down" made me decide that it was good that he stopped rapping and another thing, I don't know if there are really guest rappers in these songs or if it's just T himself rapping in different voices.
Well, I never heard his first album, so I can't really compare, but one thing that surprises me is that T really can sing when he wants to (see the final track, "Sounds Bad"). And now here comes Epiphany, which is supposed to be a more mature album than Rappa Ternt Sanga. I was never too impressed by T-Pain because I felt he only made average songs, and his use of the vocoder was so forced that it seemed like he was trying a little too hard to emulate the late Roger Troutman (a notion later confirmed on THIS album with the intro, "Tallahassee Love", which bears more than a striking similarity to Tupac's "California Love").