Brown is hard to beat

No I don't mean Gordan Brown, everyone knows he's already been beat. I'm talking about Chris Brown, the guy that many have hailed as the new king of R&B and a future successor to Michael Jackson. That's quite a title to have and to be honest I don't think there'll ever be another MJ but I also think it's fair to say that the king of R&B crown is Chris' for the taking.

So with his 3rd album "Graffiti" released earlier this week it was gonna take a lot for him to win back some of the fans who he definitely lost after the whole Rihanna fiasco. However this album should win those fans back (if they're more interested in the music itself than the image of the artist that is). Whilst Exclusive was a huge leap forward from his self titled debut album, Graffiti is a much smaller leap but you can definitely see a new direction with this album, a direction that Chris himself has chose with a number of songs that are quite reminiscent past songs he had a huge hand in such as Forever.

There's 20 tracks there if you get the Deluxe edition and that's great value compared to many other albums out there that won't dare go over the 13 song mark. The album has a number of songs you'd expect from a good R&B artist such as the party starters like "I can Transform Ya" "What I do" and "Wait" as well as the token sex song "Take My Time". You also get a number of
Epic R&B Ballads such as the brilliant "Crawl" and "I Need This" which will always leave a good impession but sadly there's also the Reggae style song which some R&B singers insist on having (which as you can tell, I'm not very fond of) but the album really shines with the upbeat songs that like I mentioned earlier have an air of Forever to them such as "Chase our Love" and "I.Y.A." and the songs that are influenced by the Piano or Guitar like "So Cold" and "For Your Love" and there's also a song in there which to me sounds like a duet version of Ne-Yo's "Closer", the song in question being "Pass Out" which features a quality sample of Eric Prydz "Call on Me". Finally there is also the song which adrresses his relationship with Rihanna "Famous Girl" which basically tells you what you probably thought of what happened.

The album also has some great contributing artists which proves some people are still willing to work with him such as Lil Wayne, Trey Songz, The Game and the hugely unnapreciated genius that is Lupe Fiasco. If you're a fan of Chris Brown's other work you can be very sure that you'll enjoy this album, whilst not hugely different from Exclusive it's got some songs that will one day be classic, great beats accompanied by the undisputedly great voice of Chris, fans will not be dissapointed as he delivers another must have album.