Akon has also been featured in Gwen Stefani’s The Sweet Escape due out in December 2006. He is also planning on a full-length movie on his life. The movie Money, Power & Respect: A Hustler’s Dream is due out late 2007 or early 2008.
Over all, I like the album. Akon shows a diverse talent and a strong sense of style. He moves from street stories to R&B ballads easily. He uses sing-rapping and multi tracking of his voice for handling his own backing vocals. He cleanly laces pop music with his hard-core style.
My main problem with the album is more with the packaging and the explicit lyrics in the song “I Wanna Love You”. There are two versions of this song. The “clean” one that uses this title and is played on the radio stations. The other is the one that replaces the word “Love” with the F word.
There are many songs that have two different versions. That, after all is artistic choice. My problem is with the fact that the title on the cover and the words on the lyric sheet contain the words for the clean version. The song that is on my CD is not the censored one.
For those parents who want to handle the balance between screening their ageing teenagers music from cruder material and letting them become more exposed the real world, this is just plain wrong to do. I think that the words that are on the cover and lyric sheet should reflect what is on the CD. If the producers are too embarrassed to put it on the cover don’t put it in the CD.
My personal opinion is that Akon is too talented of an individual to miss this CD. Be aware that there are very explicit lyrics on this album. If you are offended by language, get the clean version.
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