It’s a beautiful time to be in the club.īut where Bieber and Brown lack subtlety and Drake and his ilk are limited singers, Trigga finds Songz in peak form and right on time. The genres have always had a certain lugubrious energy in common, but now, more than ever, rappers are dabbling in 3D songwriting and R&B singers are borrowing, or creating, cadences that channel popular hip-hop. Ty Dolla $ign, Future, Justin Bieber, Drake, Chris Brown, The Weeknd: In the two years since Songz’s first chart-topping album, Chapter V, a wave of mutable rap and R&B heartthrobs has crested. Those who are justifiably opposed to it on principle might find it all the more obnoxious that it comes from a proficient vocalist whose melodicism is almost unrivaled.With his sixth album Trigga, Trey Songz returns, ribald and ready, to swat middling crooners out of his lane. It also has sharp hooks and slick productions to spare. This is, no doubt, one of the most flagrantly lecherous commercial R&B albums of its time. Another pre-album hit, Soundz production 'Foreign' - present in original form and a delete-able 'remix' that adds nasal-as-ever Justin Bieber - is more representative of the album's essence, comparatively rowdy with compliments paid strictly to physical features. These singles presented only a slight possibility that Trigga is the singer's best release, though 'Na Na,' a collaboration with hot producer DJ Mustard, is one of his best slow jams, booming and spacious with a dark edge. The week prior to the album's release, four of its songs were already on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Speaking of triflin', the album's second line is 'I'm taken but I want you.' Yet it's less a matter when he also cleverly disputes the logic of the dumbest idiom ('You can't have your cake and eat it') with a falsetto flick of 'But ain't that what you supposed to do?' while exploiting its metaphorical flexibility to an R. He couldn't care less about contradicting himself, as he gleefully refers to 'hoes' as 'triflin'' while boasting about a multitude of behavioral stunts deserving of the same noun and adjective. To quote the great Spice 1, Trigga gots no heart.

Trey Songz is far past minding anything other than his pleasure. Steal Your Girl is up to his old tricks on his sixth album, throughout which he relishes his playboy status more than ever.

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