“I’m Sprung”, for example, has an extremely catchy chorus that you should definitely check out. Also, some of the songs are insanely catchy. T-Pain stays true to his roots, and simply talks about things that he is experiencing in his day to day life. If you have ever tried messing around in GarageBand, you will understand why this is such an amazing feat. One of the reasons I can appreciate this album is that T-Pain produced this whole album on GarageBand.
Personally, I am a huge fan of this album. His first album, Rappa Ternt Sanga, was released in 2005. Since then, T-Pain’s career has blown up. Akon wanted to sign T-Pain to his label (Konvict Music). He was actually on the way back from a job interview from McDonald’s when he got a call from Akon himself. T-Pain’s big break happened when he made a remix of Akon’s “Locked Up”. He dropped out of middle school and gave music everything he had. T-Pain built a mini studio in his bedroom, and this started his music career. His music career got started when his dad brought him a keyboard that he had picked up from the side of the road. However, as he grew up, his family fell apart. He actually came from one of the “better-off” families in his area. The “T” in T-Pain actually stands for Tallahassee, and the “Pain” part refers to the pain and the struggle that he had making it into the mainstream music industry.
However, I have not provided you guys with his life background and what I think of his music. His use of the autotune effect has changed the music industry, and birthed various different artists as well as the modern day trap genre. All that said, T-Pain is still more misguided than mediocre, which keeps Epiphany from being a failure.In a previous post, I talked about how rapper/singer/producer/actor/songwriter, T-Pain, is one of the most influential artists of our generation. Plus, Epiphany is overstuffed, with nothing that tops last album's "I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper)," and the more mature side never quite gels with the irresponsible party side. Three alcohol-based numbers, two of which are highlights ("Bartender" featuring Akon and "Buy U a Drank" with Yung Joc) and one that's just filler ("Tipsy"), could have been spread across three albums instead of dropped on one. These vibrant touches and bold moments make the album worth pulling for, but T-Pain's ongoing issue with beating good ideas to death has now extended to just fair ideas. As far as "mature," there's a gripping interlude four tracks in, "I Got It" (the "it" being HIV), and then the ambitious "Suicide," which has more depth and feeling than expected. Take the futuristic reggae number "Shottas" or the busy "Church," which dares the listener to hang onto its hectic beat. Problem is, T-Pain has a long way to go before he gets anywhere close to Kels' "I Believe I Can Fly." Instead he's got a fat sack of "Thoia Thoing"s with hooks, slick sounds, and shameless lyrics along with the occasionally crafty production twist. Kelly and his juggling of the sublime and ridiculous. The singer, rapper, writer, producer, voicebox abuser, and favorite target of many hip-hop fans is one of the few who could put an effervescent ode to a jiggly stomach ("Some people like booty/And ain't nothing wrong with that/Ain't nothing more groovy/Than when that stomach moving") on an album that dare pimp the word "mature." "Stomach" is not an empowering anthem for thick women, and when the world "nut" appears as a verb, it's easy to remember R.
From its title to its more poignant numbers, T-Pain's Epiphany wears the tag line "more mature album" proudly, which it is, sort of, half of the time.
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