After the success of his first LP Trouble featuring the singles "Locked Up (Remix featuring Styles P.)" "Ghetto" and "Lonely", the hook bandit named Akon returned in 2006 with his second album called Konvicted.

Konvicted is obviously a reference to his prior time spent in jail and his Konvict Music label. Konvict has spent the last few years doing a lot of guest appearances and doing them with some of Hip Hop's highest profile acts like Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Gwen Stefani and Young Jeezy among others.

His combination of Hip Hop, R&B, Reggae and African Music is what seems to be his most appealing quality and he brings a tougher sound to his music. He's not a lover so much as he's a street song siren who deals with street realities. On Konvicted, Akon doesn't veer far from his path of the streets but also gives people a few deeper tracks than what we all hear on the radio.

His singles include "Smack That" featuring Eminem a raunchy song for the clubs, "I Wanna Love You", a strippers dream song and the Marleyesque "Don't Matter", a ode to love and it's unwillingness to die!

Other tracks you might check out include Blown Away featuring Styles P., a tough track that you'd expect from these two, "Tired of Runnin'", a track dealing with police harassment and abuse, "Once In A While", a track about hope and finding a better life or a nice sample familiar to crate diggers and "Mama Africa", a song about what Africa has to share with it's people and descendants. The majority of the 12 track LP was produced by Akon himself and also features production by Eminem, Troo.L.S & Rune Rask and SuperVillian Beats.

This album has a little of everything and the lyrics are more diverse in topic but Akon keeps to his tough talk and doesn't open up too much and his voice can be whiney at times.That said, I was surprised by the LP. I'll give it 3 GeoGlobes.