Trouble [Bonus CD Clean]

• Artist: Akon
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• Release Date: June 29, 2004
• 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. [Eighteen months after the album's release, Universal took advantage of Akon's multiplying number of collaborations, compiled several of them with remixes and unreleased tracks, and issued a bonus-disc edition. A clean version of this was also released.] ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Tracks

CD 1

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Locked Up (Lyrics)		Akon	(3:55)
Trouble Nobody (Lyrics)		Akon	(3:24)
Belly Dancer (Bananza)		Akon	(4:00)
Gangsta	J. Mann	Daddy T, Akon, Devyne	(4:13)
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	(4:19)
Don't Let Up (Lyrics)		Akon	(4:02)
I Won't (Lyrics)		Akon	(3:20)
Locked Up [Remix][*]		Akon, Styles P	(3:50)

CD 2

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Belly Dancer (Bananza) [Remix][*]		Akon	(3:27)
Gunshot (Fiesta Riddim)		Akon	(2:56)
Senegal (Lyrics)	Mark Batson, Anthony Hamilton	Akon	(2:52)
Keep on Callin'		Akon, P-Money	(3:31)
Never Gonna Get It		Akon, Sean Biggs	(3:36)
Miss Melody		Miri Ben-Ari, Akon	(3:50)
Kill the Dance (Got Something for Ya)		Kardinal Offishall, Akon	(2:55)
Find Us (In the Back of the Club)		The Beatnuts, Akon	(3:15)
Baby I'm Back		Baby Bash, Akon	(3:39)
Yey' [Konvict Muzik Exclusive]	J. Mann	Akon, Babyz	(4:31)

Credits

Akon (Rap), Andre Upston (Engineer), The Beatnuts (Producer), Miri Ben-Ari (String Mixing), Devyne (Performer), B. Darius (Producer), Pickelhead (Rap), Sean Wedderburn (Mixing), Aliaune "Akon" Thiam (Audio Engineer), Miri Ben-Ari (Violin), Sean Wedderburn (Engineer), Taylor Dow (Assistant Engineer), Joe Spix (Design), Devyne (Rap), Bill Wathen (Engineer), Sean Biggs (Performer), Devyne Stephens (Executive Producer), Seth Foster (Mastering), P-Money (Programming), Kirk Harding (Marketing), John Holmes (Engineer), Chris Carmouche (Engineer), Jason "Chyld" Kpana (A&R), Marty Reid (Guitar), Aliaune "Akon" Thiam (Producer), Frank Sinatra (Goofus), Shawn WMS Pka Sha Kim Allah (Audio Production), Dwayne "Supa Dups" Chin Quee (Producer), Babyz (Performer), Dwayne "Supa Dups" Chin Quee (Multi Instruments), Leslie Brathwaite (Mixing), Miri Ben-Ari (Producer), Aliaune "Akon" Thiam (Arranger), Eric Krasno (Guitar), Mike Tschupp (Mixing Assistant), Dwayne "Supa Dups" Chin Quee (Arranger), Greg "Frosty" Smith (Engineer), Aliaune "Akon" Thiam (Programming), Benny- D. (Audio Production), B. Darius (Drums), P-Money (Mixing), Ron "Neff U" Feemster (Multi Instruments), Aliaune "Akon" Thiam (Mixing), B. Darius (Bass), Ron "Neff U" Feemster (Producer), Steve "Stevie Neve" Roberts (Mixing), P-Money (Producer), Tony Dawsey (Mastering), Miri Ben-Ari (Arranger), Daddy T (Rap), Miri Ben-Ari (Strings), The Beatnuts (Mixing), Aliaune "Akon" Thiam (Engineer), Miri Ben-Ari (Engineer), Neal Evans (Keyboards), Jimmy Bruch (Photography), Tony Love (Guitar), Aliaune "Akon" Thiam (Audio Production), Sandy Brummels (Art Direction)