Review
Thr33 Ringz
(Nappy Boy/Konvict/Jive)
Release Date: 11/11/2008 12:00
Reviewed by Josh Eells
Some R&B lovermen boast about bagging six girls at once. T-Pain can’t handle even one. “Therapy,” from his third album, is about a stubborn shorty. His solution: “5, 6, 7, 8/I don’t need your sex, I’ll masturbate!” The top-hatted Floridian who calls himself Teddy Penderass is an overweight, undersexed lunk who drinks too much, crushes on strippers and writes an extra-long lap-dance song just so he can get his $20’s worth in the club. Single “Chopped N Skrewed” celebrates getting dissed at the bar, and on “Blowing Up”—the kind of bootylicious electronica Wall-E and Eve might bump circuit boards to—our hero gets the ice-princess treatment from Ciara … and loves it. Since his 2005 debut, T-Pain has seen his Auto-Tuned swagger jacked by everyone from Kanye to Lil Wayne, but he has kept his sound fresh with a bottomless bag of hooks and a grainy rasp that the computers can’t buff away. Call him the Six Million Dollar Everyman.

DOWNLOAD “Can’t Believe It,” “Chopped N Skrewed,” “Therapy”
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