All that said, T-Pain is still more misguided than mediocre, which keeps Epiphany from being a failure. 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. 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. And seriously: This album changed modern music in ways we’re still dealing with.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. In the meantime, you can re-listen to Epiphany below. We expect the album to ship by mid-March. Coming on red 180gram vinyl, and 2LP, you can get the album right here, right now.

The singer, of course, is T-Pain, and the album is Epiphany, his 2007 album featuring hits like 'Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin'),' 'Bartender,' and 'Church.' The album was never released on vinyl, until Vinyl Me, Please came along, and today, we released the first vinyl edition of the album. That album has woefully never been released on vinyl. 1, spawned multiple hit singles, and cemented Auto-Tune’s place in music history, the singer’s impact on the way music has sounded since undebatable. Because most of the R&B record-buying world knows that T-Pain is not. 1) or 'a sudden moment of insight or revelation' (No. In 2007, that singer released his masterpiece, an album that entered the charts at No. T-Pain opens the liner notes to his hotly anticipated second disc with a couple of helpful definitions: An epiphany is 'the manifestation of a supernatural being' (definition No. In 2005, a distinct R&B singer took a piece of audio software, his incredibly buttery voice, and a whole bunch of attitude, and became one of the mid-aughts biggest pop stars so big, Jay-Z made a song about trying to kill him off.

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