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T-Pain is Aight With Me...


June 11, 2007 | Tags: T-Pain, HIV, R. Kelly, TI, Roger Troutman, Phonte
After a co-sign from one of my favorite emcees (Phonte from Little Brother), I decided to give T-Pain's sophomore effort, Epiphany a listen. Not a thorough one, but a listen nonetheless.

(writers note: Ain't it a bitch that T-Pain is on album two, but Saigon can't even get a single on the radio)

For the record, I think that T-Pain is the 2007's slightly less talented version of Roger Troutman. The album isn't offering anything new and for the most part contributes to, what I call disposable music aka. shit you won't be listening to in six months (but that's another blog entirely).

While I'm not a huge T-Pain fan, I have to give the album a thumbs up because of a few, socially conscious songs. Like him or hate him, TP is on a roll these days. Buy You a Drank is one of my guilty pleasure songs, Bartender is going to be another hit and while not on the album, he outshined Kelz and TI on the Flirt Remix. Interwoven into the tracks about ballin on a budget, odes to a woman's six pack and talk box harmonizing are the tracks I Got It and Suicide.

I know most of you die hard Hip Hop fans have no idea what I'm talking about. In a nutshell, the two tracks are about a man and woman that end up catching the monster.

And by monster, I mean HIV (word to Eazy E)

Magic and Eazy catching the disease should've been enough for us to wake up, yet I've seen and heard more irresponsible sexual behavior on wax and in vidoes than I can count. Even though it ain't no fun if the homies can't have none, alcohol and medication don't mix. In other words, you won't be buying too many drinks if you're downing HIV cocktails to stay alive.

Word to Magic Johnson.

Suicide dives into a topic that 95% of artists today won't touch. With all this talk about being on the hotline and fucking like wild animals (word to R. Kelly), it's nice that somebody presents the other side of the game. Maybe some of these kids will listen.

T-Pain is no Teddy P., but I can appreciate him making a song like this, he might save somebody's life.

*rolls out bumping the Epiphany song dedicated to oral sex, 69*




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