ARTIST: Akon
TITLE: Konvicted (Deluxe Edition)
LABEL: Konvict Muzik/UpFront/SRC/Universal Motown
GENRE: R&B
GRABBER: EAC (Secure Mode)
ENCODER: Lame 3.98b5 / -V2 --vbr-new
QUALITY: 183 Kbps Avg / 44.1 KHz / Joint Stereo
PLAYTIME: 1h 11min 32sec total
SIZE: 93.59MB
RELEASE DATE: 08-28-2007
RIP DATE: 09-30-2007
Track List
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01. Shake Down (Produced By Giorgio 3:52
Tuinfort & Akon)
02. Blown Away (Feat. Styles P) (Produced 3:29
By Giorgio Tuinfort & Akon)
03. Smack That (Feat. Eminem) (Produced By 3:32
Eminem)
04. I Wanna Love You (Feat. Snoop Dogg) 4:07
(Produced By Akon)
05. The Rain (Produced By Akon & Skrapp) 3:27
06. Never Took The Time (Produced By Akon 3:57
& Keon Bryce)
07. Mama Africa (Produced By Akon & Hakim 4:26
Abdulsamad)
08. I Can't Wait (Produced By Akon & 3:46
T-Pain)
09. Gangsta Bop (Produced By Akon, 4:06
Troo.L.S. & Rask)
10. Tired Of Runnin' (Produced By Akon) 4:33
11. Once In A While (Produced By Akon & 3:57
Benny-D.)
12. Don't Matter (Produced By Akon) 4:53
13. Sorry, Blame It On Me (Bonus Track) 4:56
(Produced By Clinton Sparks, Akon, &
Tombstone)
14. Rush (Feat. Kardinal Offishall) (Bonus 4:14
Track) (Produced By Akon & Kardinal
Offishall)
15. Don't Matter (Calypso Remix) (Bonus 5:38
Track) (Produced By Akon & Leslie
Brathwaite)
16. Gringo (AU Bonus Track) (Produced By 4:33
Akon)
17. I Wanna Love You (Radio Edit) (Feat. 4:06
Snoop Dogg) (AU Bonus Track) (Produced
By Akon)
Release Notes:
Version with a couple more tracks...bonus tracks dupe some old CDS/CDM so
we'll keep it internal. The covers don't list the extra bonus tracks, but
believe us they are on the CD.
Props & R.I.P. to OSC for getting the initial pre on this. Let's also take a
moment to remember another fallen hero in the MP3 scene, aPC...
The mastering on this album is horrible. Track 03 has a pop at 00m05s, and
there's various static noises on the right channel on Tracks 04 and 17 at
00m52s, 01m30s and 02m28s. There maybe more errors, just don't have the time
to give the whole album a hard listen. This is present on this release, as
well as the OSC and RNS ones, so it's not a flaw on our part.
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"Locked Up"'s success provided Akon with instant heavyweight clout. Upgraded
from writing songs and doing the occasional hook for B-, C-, and D-level
artists, he tallied a multi-platinum album, was granted his own boutique label
(which was used to spawn T-Pain), and became in-demand as an A-list collaborator
-- he worked with Young Jeezy, R. Kelly, Gwen Stefani, and even Elton John. His
second album, Konvicted, isn't much different from the debut (patchiness
included), even though it comes from a different perspective. He even addresses
his newfound fame, along with the expectations and other forms of grief that
come with it, in a vague but very saddened way throughout "The Rain." For the
most part, though, Konvicted offers more ultra-macho R&B. The guest spots come
from Eminem, Snoop Dogg, and Styles P, leaving no room for female hooks or
verses. Akon hits on strippers (but does not fall in love with them), smacks
behinds, and tends to go with what suits him best: bragging and seducing while
delivering like-sounding hooks in his unique voice. Whenever the yearning and
heartache is allowed through, he's not persuasive, and he sounds like he still
has the club on his mind.
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