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Akon - Freedom
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- New music: Akon has released new album 'Konkrete' added on Monday, 4th of July
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- 2012 Grammys: Nicki Minaj debuted 'Roman Holiday' in spooky a style added on Monday, 13th of February
- New music: Akon has released new album 'Konkrete' added on Monday, 4th of July
- New Music: Akon 'Can U Believe' and 'Chammak Chulo' added on Monday, 30th of May
- 2012 Grammys: Nicki Minaj debuted 'Roman Holiday' in spooky a style added on Monday, 13th of February
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| Hiponline |
| inger/songwriter/producer, Akon burst out of the starting gates with the winningly melodic and compulsively danceable single “Right Now (Na Na Na).” The song is sparking up the charts in a record-setting pace that’s familiar to Akon’s millions of fans worldwide. “Right Now (Na Na Na)” is the lead track from Akon’s 3rd upcoming album FREEDOM. The infectious song is the #1 Most Added at Rhythm Crossover radio stations in its first week of release. “Freedom” features collaborations with Hip- Hop’s “man of the hour” Lil Wayne (”I’m So Paid”) and Akon’s platinum artist T-Pain (”Holla Holla”). Akon broke out on the music scene in 2004 with the platinum album TROUBLE that featured singles, “Locked Up” and “Lonely.” He returned in 2006 with the triple-platinum certified “Konvicted” CD. The Senegalese native broke chart history in 2007 as the first artist to simultaneously hold the #1 (”I Wanna Love You”) and #2 (”Smack “That”) positions on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart twice. He went on to become Billboard Magazine’s Top Artist of 2007, the #2 Hot 100 Producer of the Year, and #2 Hot 100 Songwriter of the year....full text |
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| Rollingstone. |
| Beneath the digital production and R2D2 vocals, Akon is secretly an old-fashioned romantic, and his third album is his most heart-on-sleeve. There's a song about high rolling ("I'm So Paid," featuring Lil Wayne and Young Jeezy) and a skeezy ode to PDA, "We Don't Care." But most of Freedom is pure melodrama about love and love lost, delivered in a hooting style over synth-swamped beats that are closer to early Peter Gabriel than to 2008 hip-hop. Some songs tend to drag on too long, with Akon crooning his chorus catchphrases — "I was wrong for falling in love," "I just want to keep you longer" — dozens (hundreds?) of times. He's pop's new King of Pain....full text |
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| Musicomh |
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Over the past few years Senegalese-born R&B singer and producer Akon has barely been out of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, either through his myriad guest spots on other people's songs, his production work (ranging from Leona Lewis to Nelly) or with hits of his own, including the unsavoury Smack That (with Eminem) and the number 1, Trouble. The latter must surely go down as one of the most irritating singles of recent years; it's Bobby Vinton versus The Chipmunks sample as nauseating as Barbie Girl or Crazy Frog. What this musical nadir does show, however, is that Akon certainly has an ear for a memorable hook, even if said hook makes you want you rip your own ears off and feed them to your dog. To be fair to him though, he's claimed in recent interviews that Freedom, his third album, finds him moving away from the hip-hop-lite beats and bravado of his first albums to a more Euro-friendly club sound....full text |
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