试听：AKON - Blown Away

　　2003年以『Trouble爱情烦恼』专辑创下全球400万张销量、以“Lonely寂寞先生”一曲感动全世界后，来自塞内加尔的Akon证明了好音乐绝不寂寞，不仅接连获邀与Gwen Stefani格温·史蒂芬妮、Elton John艾尔顿·约翰等一线巨星合作，最新专辑更找来饶舌天王Eminem阿姆、Snoop Dogg史奴比狗狗、Styles P.等，一同向全球乐迷告解【Konvicted爱的告白】。

　　在知名爵士乐鼓手父亲Mor Thiam的熏陶下，阿肯从小就接触各种音乐，他承认最喜欢的还是灵魂乐，不过更喜欢混搭各种曲风，这张全新专辑就是最佳示范。

　　旋律优美的“Tired Of Runnin’” 阿肯以充满灵性的歌声倾诉不愿再继续亡命天涯，可谓街头生活的最终告解，在与老乡T-Pain合作的“I Can’t Wait”中，阿肯成功融合抒情爵士及嘻哈重拍，让同样出自灵魂乐的两种乐风又合归同流。抒情佳作“Never Took The Time”中则大胆运用少见于嘻哈的钢琴及小提琴，在一片重音中带来畅动旋律；而在“Mama Africa”中，阿肯加入大量西非鼓乐，致力非洲文化、为自己的族人们抒发思乡情怀，再加上曾共创“Locked Up”佳绩的Styles P.本次献声“Blown Away”，整张专辑的火爆程度就不必再多说了。

　　【Konvinced爱的告白】不仅淋漓尽致地展现了阿肯过人的词曲创作才华、独一无二的优雅嗓音，专辑中的多元曲风，证明了阿肯是个遊刃有余的音乐制作人，也因此吸引诸多巨星争相合作。除了已成立自己的音乐制作公司外，并许愿将来参选塞内加尔总统，阿肯最近更跨足好莱坞，在【CSI犯罪现场】中客串演出，并已开始筹拍自传电影，立志成为全方位艺人。在那之前，我们不妨先从他的音乐认识他的精彩人生。

　　Blown Away(feat. Styles P)

　　[Akon]

　　Cheh

　　[Styles P]

　　This shit is crazy

　　Crazy

　　[Akon]

　　It's one of those things man

　　You gotta experience to know what I'm talkin' about

　　Ha ha

　　It's where the goin' get rough

　　[Styles P]

　　Akon

　　[Akon]

　　The tough stay tough

　　[Styles P]

　　Styles P

　　[Akon]

　　Up front

　　Let's go

　　Konvict

　　[Akon]

　　We in too deep to turn back now D

　　[Styles P]

　　Sure is

　　[Akon]

　　Watch yourself

　　Before you get

　　Blown away

　　[Styles P]

　　You know where I come from

　　The place where your fate is a mic

　　Or a bull or a dum dum

　　A jail cell a pine box

　　And brothers is dumb young

　　Young boys

　　Still bustin' guns for the slum

　　that they come from

　　Cops is the only ones they gon' run from

　　That's it

　　They puttin' they hood up

　　But 9 out of 10 of us ain't got good luck

　　You gon' ride on a man and catch 25

　　Or get hit and get sent to the other side

　　You lose both sides of the coin

　　So me I play the hood baby

　　Not in the

　　Mama got a little church I could join

　　But I didn't go yet

　　Man got a mosque I could join

　　But I didn't go yet

　　Cool with the devil on my back

　　I'm in cold sweats

　　Bout to do some dirt

　　In some dirty black old sweats

　　If you known you shoulda shown the way

　　Mosta the hood bout to get blown away

　　[Akon]

　　Cause I was raised up to show no fear

　　Cowardly hearts'll never last long here

　　If you ain't man enough to make shit clear

　　Guaranteed you'll get blown away

　　Cause I done seen the block break down tears

　　And I done seen the cops break my peers

　　Tryin' to hold on to a couple more years

　　Tryin' not to get blown away

　　See I ain't never shot nobody

　　But I'm known for fightin'

　　So when I strike man

　　You'll think you been struck by lightning

　　Shouldn't have to prove myself by killin' a nigga

　　Even a child could figure out how to pull the trigga

　　Retaliation only takes anger mixed with passion

　　So you target in the distance and keep on blastin'

　　They say guns don't kill people, people do

　　So when you're hit man

　　You feel that shit the evils do

　　Can't see myself get beat down

　　My eyes swollen

　　Mom's cryin' they don't know what happened

　　My pride's stolen

　　If I ain't got my heat then I got a blade

　　That hit ya off

　　Cause I was raised up to show no fear

　　Cowardly hearts'll never last long here

　　If you ain't man enough to make shit clear

　　Guaranteed you'll get blown away

　　Cause I done seen the block break down tears

　　And I done seen the cops break my peers

　　Tryin' to hold on to a couple more years

　　Tryin' not to get blown away

　　Keep my eye out for jakes

　　Ears to the streets

　　Other eye out for snakes

　　And these scandalous freaks

　　If we ain't on good terms

　　Don't bother to speak

　　Don't smile and try to spark a convo with me

　　Same thing'll make ya laugh it'll make ya cry

　　This quiet nigga, he'll take ya life

　　Hate for it to be the world's sacrifice

　　If somebody else could travel

　　Through the tunnel of life

　　Cause I'm that type of guy I'll be there

　　When you're ridin'

　　But I'll stay to myself

　　So if you see me out there

　　with a bear we fightin'

　　Then nigga go help the bear

　　Cause I was raised up to show no fear

　　Cowardly hearts'll never last long here

　　If you ain't man enough to make shit clear

　　Guaranteed you'll get blown away

　　Cause I done seen the block break down tears

　　And I done seen the cops break my peers

　　Tryin' to hold on to a couple more years

　　Tryin' not to get blown away