The Game flourished in a (then) commercially barren LA scene, Houston finally got its commercial dues with Chamillionaire, Mike Jones and Paul Wall, whilst Kanye and Jeezy battled it out for, depending on your perspective or region, the definitive new rap album of the year. The artists that emerged a year later – Chris Brown, Trey Songz and Keyshia Cole – claimed spots that were up for grabs as a previous generation of crooners aged.Ĭrucially, 2005 was a year that artists who existed in their own space could dominate.
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R&B too saw a fitting full stop to the previous era with Usher’s undisputed Confessions. and the new Southern rap establishment, rap shifted in a way that was unrecoverable for many of its previous heroes.
Lunatics!) gave way to Wayne, Jeezy, T.I. As the ROC, Ruff Ryders and Dipset (hell, even the St. Most importantly, the explicit synergy between rapper and singer – a marked leap forward from what Lauryn and Wyclef were doing in the previous decade – is a debt that simply needs to be recognized.įor context, the middle of the 2000s was a transitional time in rap and R&B.
Those luxurious drops in the clubs, letting that 808 do its work? That’s Teddy Pain again. Those subtle auto-tuned melodies that ingrain themselves into your subconscious? All Pain. The looseness of expression and the never-ending space in the records of today is defiantly T-Pain. They embody so much of what T-Pain started with Rappa Ternt Sanga and then perfected on Epiphany a couple of years later. The list of artists who have emerged recently and are either a rapper-turned-singer or singer-turned-rapper – Fetty Wap, Young Thug, Future, Tink, Dej Loaf, Rich Homie Quan, K Camp, Bryson Tiller, Tory Lanez amongst many – is basically endless. A legacy that, while frowned upon by many music critics, is cherished by anyone who spends their time in the club, or who generally lives life with a smile on their face. Not only are we still living in that post-T-Pain world, but 2015 in particular has served as one long reminder to his legacy. It’s been exactly a decade since the release of T-Pain’s Rappa Ternt Sanga.