Music :: Akon

On my iPod, I have every single genre of music. It is all there from opera to country (very, VERY little country). My two favorite genres of music would definitely have to be theatrical score and rap/hip-hop. What do I listen to most though? Definitely rap. One of my favorite rap artists is Akon. He is a very popular artist on his own as well as featured artist on other rap artist's singles. One blog that I found on blogcritics.com says...

"At first glance, Konvicted [One of Akon's albums] appears as if its going to be more of a nod to his harder side, but tha is not always the case. "Smack That," the disc's first release, is more of an attempt to appeal to the club hoppers and the Top 40 followers and was a safe bet for a hit single. Not wanting to play it too mainstream, he also dabbles in some musical genre-hopping throughout Konvicted. "Mama Africa" contains more of a smooth reggae tone delivery and is more that just a bit akin to Kevin Lyttle's sound. Also, doing an R. Kelly-li[k]e take on the ballad "Never Took The Time," is not the way Akon wants to go if he wants to secape the "Lonely" stigma."  ---- to read more, go to: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/11/27/210726.php

I think that this is a pretty good description of Akon's work. The article goes on to say that even though Akon is in the rap genre, he does not actually rap. If he needs someone to spit a rhyme in one of his songs, he gets one of his many rapper friends to help him out. Akon represents the over-all rap/hip-hop genre with his vast resume of types of rap. 

This article is claiming that Akon may have released his hardest hitting song first, but that his whole album is is a very vast collection of rap types. This is all backed up by the author with his production of various songs from the album. I think that what held my attention most about the article was that it was exactly what I was searching for, which was a review of Akon. The author also supplied a very good photo of Akon for the blog post. Overall, I agree with this blog. I love Akon. I think that all his songs are awesome.