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Trouble

 
Album Review: Trouble

  • Artist: Akon
  • Rating: StarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: June 29, 2004
  • Type: Contains explicit content
  • Genre: Rhythm & Blues

Review

Senegalese-American ex-con Akon broke out with "Locked Up," a gloomy but thrilling paranoiac tail about drug running and jail time. 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. Unfortunately, no other song on the album is nearly as gripping. 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. At its best, Trouble places you in Akon's turbulent world. At its worst, which is often, the album is excessively tedious. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Locked Up (Lyrics) Aliaune "Akon" Thiam Akon (3:56)
Trouble Nobody (Lyrics) Akon (3:22)
Bananza (Belly Dancer) Akon (4:00)
Gangsta (Lyrics) J. Mann Akon (4:15)
Ghetto (Lyrics) Akon (3:55)
Pot of Gold (Lyrics) S. Williams Akon (3:36)
Show Out (Lyrics) Akon (3:24)
Lonely (Lyrics) Akon (3:55)
When the Time's Right (Lyrics) Akon (3:44)
Journey (Lyrics) Akon (4:18)
Don't Let Up (Lyrics) Akon (4:03)
Easy Road (Lyrics) S. Williams Akon (3:22)
[Untitled Track] Akon (4:07)

Credits

Aliaune "Akon" Thiam (Producer), Marty Reid (Guitar), Aliaune "Akon" Thiam (Mixing), Devyne Stephens (Executive Producer), Jimmy Bruch (Photography), Debra Killings (Vocals), Joe Spix (Design), Leslie Brathwaite (Mixing), Sandy Brummels (Art Direction), Aliaune "Akon" Thiam (Engineer), Tony Love (Guitar), Tony Love (Bass), Benny- D. (Producer)
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Trouble
Studio album by Akon
Released May 29, 2004
Recorded October 2003 – April 2004 at White Room Studio in Detroit, MI
Genre R&B, Hip Hop
Length 49:57
Label SRC/Universal
Producer Akon, Ghulam Sajid, Knobody, Disco D
Professional reviews
Akon chronology
Trouble
(2004)
Konvicted
(2006)
Singles from Trouble
  1. "Locked Up"
    Released: April 13, 2004
  2. "Ghetto"
    Released: December 21, 2004
  3. "Lonely"
    Released: April 19, 2005
  4. "Belly Dancer (Bananza)"
    Released: June 21, 2005
  5. "Pot of Gold"
    Released: November 15, 2005

Trouble is the debut album by the Senegalese-American hip hop and R&B singer Akon, released in 2004. The singles released from the album are "Locked Up", "Ghetto", "Lonely", "Belly Dancer (Bananza)" and "Pot of Gold", with the biggest of these being "Lonely". The Deluxe Edition was released in 2005 and contains a second disc with 10 bonus tracks.

The release of "Locked Up" propelled Akon to fame. He has since, either solo or as a feature, been topping the charts regularly. The album performed much better in the UK where it peaked at #1 on the UK Album Chart.

Despite peaking low at #29, it held on, and has sold Platinum in the U.S. with sales 1.6 million.

  • Note: The track "Ghetto" does not appear on the deluxe edition of the album.

Recorded Tracks

# Title Length
1. "Locked Up"   3:56
2. "Trouble Nobody"   3:23
3. "Belly Dancer (Bananza)"   4:00
4. "Gangsta"   4:15
5. "Ghetto"   3:55
6. "Pot Of Gold"   3:36
7. "Show Out"   3:25
8. "Lonely"   3:57
9. "When The Time's Right"   3:44
10. "Journey"   4:18
11. "Don't Let Up"   4:00
12. "Easy Road"   3:22
13. "Locked Up (Remix)" (feat. Styles P) 3:52
Deluxe Edition Bonus CD
# Title Length
1. "Belly Dancer (Bananza) (Remix)" (feat. Kardinal Offishall) 3:27
2. "Gunshot (Fiesta Riddim)"   2:50
3. "Senegal"   2:52
4. "Keep on Callin'" (feat. P-Money) 3:31
5. "Never Gonna Get It" (feat. Topic & Sean Biggs) 3:36
6. "Miss Melody" (feat. Miri Ben-Ari) 3:49
7. "Kill the Dance (Got Something for Ya)" (feat. Kardinal Offishall) 2:56
8. "Find Us (In the Back of the Club)" (feat. The Beatnuts) 3:15
9. "Baby I'm Back" (feat. Baby Bash) 3:39
10. "Yey' (Konvict Muzik Exclusive)" (feat. Grady Babyz) 4:31

Chart performance

The final appearance on Billboard's Top 200 Albums Chart was for the chart dated 11/26/05. The album first appeared on the UK Album Chart on February 12, 2005 it slowly climbed up the chart before finally reaching the summit on April 30, 2009. It spent two non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the UK Album Chart and is by far his most successful album in the UK to date.

Preceded by
The Singles by Basement Jaxx
Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen
UK number one album
May 1, 2005May 7, 2005
May 15, 2005May 21, 2005
Succeeded by
Devils & Dust by Bruce Springsteen
Heart and Soul by Steve Brookstein

 
 

 

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