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19 Apr

Posted at 14:40h in Features, Interviews, Music
It may have been his former labelmate and longtime friend Eminem who asked the masses to "guess who's back" with his 2002 hit single "Without Me", but it's Obie Trice who's answering the question a decade later. Nearly six years had passed since one of Detroit's foremost rappers delivered a studio album, the last being 2006's Second Round's On Me, and the hiatus is attributed to both personal and business matters (i.e., a loss of faith in then-distributors Interscope coupled with the devastating passing of one of Obie's closest friends, Proof).

25 Oct

Posted at 10:00h in Music, Reviews
Crooning Lothario Trey Songz has spent the last year on the ascent. A short year before Passion, Pain & Pleasure, Songz released Ready, the album that established him as a rising R&B star. And within the two records, Songz has been working relentlessly to raise his visibility; staying in constant rotation on urban radio, supporting on Jay-Z’s national US tour and starring in his own reality TV series being just some of the things he’s done in a bid to secure the top spot in today’s R&B market. Passion, Pain and Pleasure came at exactly the right time to capitalise on Songz’s current buzz in the urban scene and in its first week of sales it almost doubled Ready’s first week sales. So how does the album sound?