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Revolver (T-Pain Album)
''Revolver'' (stylized as REVOLVEЯ), is the fourth studio album by American musician T-Pain, released through Konvict Muzik, RCA Records and his own label Nappy Boy Entertainment on December 6, 2011. It is his first album released after the dissolution of his previous label, Jive Records. Recording sessions for the album have taken place from 2009 to 2011. T-Pain stated that the two R's in the word, ''RevolveЯ'' have been capitalized so that in the middle, it says "evolve", indicating that T-Pain has evolved as an artist, and as a person in the period from ''Thr33 Ringz'' up till ''RevolveЯ''. He later stated that the R's were put to show how people can be deceived, and precept incorrectly without looking at the inside of things, and he then said that this will be the scheme of the album. T-Pain announced that the album would be released on December 6 in the United States in an interview with Lady Jade on the F.A.M.E. tour bus, coincidentally this is the same release date of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cirkut
Henry Russell Walter (born April 23, 1986), known professionally as Cirkut, is a Canadian record producer and songwriter. He has co-produced and co-written for Dr. Luke, Katy Perry, Becky G, Ava Max, Nicki Minaj, R. City, The Weeknd, Kesha, Ciara, Pitbull, Britney Spears, Ne-Yo, Rihanna, Adam Lambert, B.o.B, Marina and the Diamonds, will.i.am, G.R.L. and Juicy J among others. Songs he has written and produced include the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 No. 1 singles " Part of Me", " Roar" and "Dark Horse" by Katy Perry, and "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus. His production credits on The Weeknd's album '' Starboy'' won him the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary Album. His most recent collaboration was on Kanye West's 10th studio album ''Donda.'' Life and career Walter was raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia and moved to Toronto in 2004. He co-produced the Britney Spears song "Mmm Papi" which appeared on her 2008 album ''Circus''. He sent it as an instrumental track to Kobalt Music G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IZotope
iZotope, Inc. is an audio technology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. iZotope develops professional audio software for audio recording, mixing, broadcast, sound design, and mastering which can be used in wide range of digital audio workstation (DAW) programs. In addition, iZotope creates and licenses audio DSP technology including noise reduction, sample rate conversion, dithering, time stretching, and audio enhancement to hardware and software companies in the consumer and pro audio industries. Software Mobile applications *Spire — iOS recording app (released July 24, 2015) *iDrum and iDrum Mobile (acquired on December 4, 2006) — virtual drum machine *Music and Speech Cleaner — audio cleanup and enhancement suite *Sonifi — mobile remix mobile application developed by Sonik Architects *The T-Pain Effect (released July 20, 2011) — beat and vocal recording software with pitch correction Third-party plugins *Ozone Maximizer Rack Extension (re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Auto-Tune
Auto-Tune (or autotune) is an audio processor introduced in 1996 by American company Antares Audio Technologies. Auto-Tune uses a proprietary device to measure and alter pitch in vocal and instrumental music recording and performances. Auto-Tune was originally intended to disguise or correct off-key inaccuracies, allowing vocal tracks to be perfectly tuned despite originally being slightly off-pitch. The 1998 Cher song " Believe" popularized the technique of using Auto-Tune to distort vocals. In 2018, the music critic Simon Reynolds observed that Auto-Tune had "revolutionized popular music", calling its use for effects "the fad that just wouldn't fade. Its use is now more entrenched than ever." In its role distorting vocals, Auto-Tune operates on different principles from the vocoder or talk box and produces different results. Description Auto-Tune is available as a plug-in for digital audio workstations used in a studio setting and as a stand-alone, rack-mounted unit for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay-Z
Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and founder of Manhattan-based conglomerate talent and entertainment agency Roc Nation. He is regarded as one of the most influential hip-hop artists. He was the CEO of Def Jam Recordings and he has been central to the creative and commercial success of artists including Kanye West, Rihanna, and J. Cole. Born and raised in New York City, Jay-Z first began his musical career in the late 1980s; he co-founded the record label Roc-A-Fella Records in 1995 and released his debut studio album ''Reasonable Doubt (album), Reasonable Doubt'' in 1996. The album was released to widespread critical success, and solidified his standing in the music industry. He went on to release twelve additional albums, including the acclaimed albums ''The Blueprint'' (2001), ''The Black Album (Jay-Z album), The Black Album'' (2003), American Gangster (album), ''American Gangs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and 'Reblogging, retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile Frontend and backend, frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion Web search query, search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten List of most popular websites, most-visited websites and has been de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rappa Ternt Sanga
''Rappa Ternt Sanga'' is the debut studio album by American rapper and singer T-Pain, it was released on December 6, 2005. The title is an eye dialect of the phrase "rapper turned singer." One of the leftover tracks from the album was, titled "You and Me"; which is the original version of "I Can't Wait (Akon song), I Can't Wait" by Akon. The remix to "Studio Luv" was made featuring Lil Wayne. The remix to "Dance Floor" was made featuring Pitbull (rapper), Pitbull. Critical reception Andy Kellman of AllMusic stated that "Had there been limited use of studio tricks and more guidance, ''Rappa Ternt Sanga'' would've been a more-than-respectable debut. Christian Hoard of ''Rolling Stone'' said that "''Rappa Ternt Sanga'' too often drifts into loverman tedium, but a handful of slower cuts are saved by T-Pain's R. Kelly-worthy gift for not holding back". Commercial performance ''Rappa Ternt Sanga'' debuted at number 40 on the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 chart, selling 47,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jive Records
Jive Records was an American independent record label founded by Clive Calder in 1981 as a subsidiary to the Zomba Group. In the US, the label had offices in New York City and Chicago. Jive was best known for its successes with hip hop, R&B, and dance acts in the 1980s and 1990s, along with teen pop and boy bands during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Jive was acquired by Bertelsmann Music Group in 2002. In 2008, BMG itself was bought out by Sony Music Entertainment. Jive Records thereupon remained a unit wholly owned by Sony up until the label’s dissolution in 2011, when Jive was absorbed into RCA Records. History 1970s: Beginnings In 1971, South African businessmen Clive Calder and Ralph Simon began a publishing and management company. It was named Zomba Records and relocated to London, England, four years later; their first client was a young Robert "Mutt" Lange. Zomba originally wanted to avoid record labels to instead focus on their songwriters and producers while allow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Studio Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turn All The Lights On
"Turn All the Lights On" is a song by American rapper and singer T-Pain featuring fellow American singer Ne-Yo, serving as the third official single from the former's fourth studio album, ''Revolver'' (2011). Both artists wrote the song with its producers, Dr. Luke and Cirkut. Track listings * Digital download # "Turn All the Lights On" (featuring Ne-Yo) – 3:37 Credits and personnel * Lead vocals – T-Pain and Ne-Yo * Producers – Dr. Luke, Cirkut * Lyrics Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist. The words to an extended musical composition such as an opera are, however, usually known as a "libretto" and their writer, a ... – Faheem Najm, Luke Gottwald, Shaffer Smith, Henry Walter * Label: Nappy Boy, Konvict, RCA Charts Weekly charts Year-end charts Certifications References {{Ne-Yo 2012 singles Ne-Yo songs T-Pain songs Songs written by Dr. Luke Son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
5 O'Clock (T-Pain Song)
"5 O'Clock" is a song by American rapper T-Pain featuring fellow American rapper Wiz Khalifa and British singer Lily Allen, which serves as the second official single from the former's fourth studio album, ''Revolver''. It peaked at number ten on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, becoming Allen's first top ten single in the United States. Background and release Lily Allen's part in the song is sampled from her 2009 single "Who'd Have Known", which in turn resembles Take That's 2007 single "Shine". Allen states that T-Pain initially heard her song while he was placed on hold by a store, and immediately looked her up after he was done. After being approached with the new song idea by T-Pain, Allen stated she was "flattered by what he did to my original track." "5 O'Clock" was released on iTunes on September 27, 2011, and was released to U.S. Top 40 radio stations on October 18, 2011. The song was the last release by T-Pain under the now-defunct label Jive Records. The single was released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best Love Song
"Best Love Song" is a single by American recording artist T-Pain. The song features Chris Brown and was released as the first official single from his fourth studio album, '' RevolveЯ'', on March 22, 2011. The song was featured in the pilot of The CW TV series '' Hart of Dixie''. Background The song serves as the first official single from ''RevolveЯ'', following the release of the singles " Take Your Shirt Off", "Rap Song", and " Reverse Cowgirl", which were billed as promotional singles. The song originally featured R&B artist Akon. The song also has background vocals from R&B group One Chance, Jon A. Gordon, Michael A. GordonThe Gordon Brothers The song, along with another track from RevolveR, "Separated", was first released to the public by T-Pain himself on February 7, 2011, via Twitter. T-Pain leaked the song himself on Twitter as a response to poor-quality rips of his upcoming music being leaked to the Internet, stating: "Since nobody wants to respect this form of ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
