At its best, Trouble places you in Akon’s turbulent world.

The club tracks fall flat, most of the soul-searching moments feel forced, and the harder and more sexual tracks tend to be more silly than alluring. Unfortunately, no other song on the album is nearly as gripping. Placed over a fittingly dramatic production worthy of 50 Cent, with a clamping beat, simple piano figure, and frightening slams of prison bars, the single set Trouble up to be a major success. Senegalese-American ex-con Akon broke out with “Locked Up,” a gloomy but thrilling paranoiac tail about drug running and jail time. This is Andy Kellman’s opinion about the album Trouble The album was an interesting hybrid of Akon’s raps and silky, West African-styled vocals with East Coast- and Southern-styled beats. The tapes found their way to SRC/Universal, which eventually released Trouble, Akon’s debut LP, in June 2004. Upon release, Akon began writing and recording tracks in a home studio. He was eventually jailed, but he used the time to work on his musical ideas. There he discovered hip-hop for the first time, as well as crime. Locked Up was released in June 2004 but it took well over a year for me to come across “Pot of Gold”.Īliaune Thiam - aka Akon - grew up in Senegal before he and his family (including his father, jazz percussionist Mor Thiam) eventually settled in New Jersey. The album that holds this track “Pot of Gold” is known as “Locked Up”. The artist was one of the rising stars in America’s music industry.

I was truly impressed by both the music and visuals. Towards the end of the year 2005, I came across this music video on Ghana’s Metro TV.

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