T-Pain's "Thr33 Ringz"

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T-Pain - "Thr33 Ringz"
Review by The Neighborhood Bully

T-Pain, the man you've probably heard in everybody else's song, from Flo Rida’s “Low” to Lil Wayne’s “Got Money,” released his third album, aptly entitled "Thr33 Ringz." If you’re one to judge a book (or an album in this case) by its cover, you would probably deem this CD one of the best of this century, as the album artwork is utterly mind-blowing. After you pick your jaw up off the ground and actually listen to the CD, you realize that it’s the T-Pain we’ve come to love (or hate) – the man who wears top hats instead of baseball caps – but he’s taken everything to a whole new level. What were formerly two-line throwaway punch lines are now full-length songs. “Chopped N Skrewed” deals with getting treated poorly by a woman at the club. “Phantom,” a track included in the deluxe edition, is nothing more than him stalking his ex-girlfriend and speaking about it for three and a half minutes. “Karaoke,” on the other hand, is a song with a very powerful message. This song is T-Pain’s diss track to all the artists criticizing him for his use of Autotune, as well as the artists abusing Autotune themselves. In this song, he raps instead of singing to show the rappers what it’s like to be copied. “Thr33 Ringz,” for its “creative” content and the way in which it is presented, is as bizarre as the circus that seems to be going on in his mind. One of the lines in “Ringleader Man” works perfectly to explain why this album seems so abnormal: “You can’t understand the s--- that comes out of my head.”

Rating: 4/5

UPDATE: Got into that school newspaper.