Naturally, Pain didn’t need any further encouragement and thus spawned the theme and concept behind Thr33 Ringz. It is this infiltration of the airwaves that lead some people to compare T-Pain to a circus ringleader, running the show. His snappy, robotic vocals under the guise of T-Pain are more or less everywhere, whether it’s booming out of a club (“Lemme buy you a drank!”), booming out of your set-to-MTV television (“Welcome to the good life!”) or booming out of some moron’s mobile phone (“Shawty got them apple-bottom jeans…”). In the last few years, Faheem Rasheed Najm has less entered the pop music world than formed a nation inside it. Though this factor has brought about plenty of comparisons to Zapp's Roger Troutman (as in the electro-funk classic 'More Bounce to the Ounce' and late-'80s slow jam favorite 'I Want to Be Your Man'), Troutman used an actual vocoder (which produced a different-sounding effect), and T-Pain winds up sounding more like the Cher of 'Believe.' Had there been limited use of studio tricks and more guidance (as a new signee to a label with major distribution, T-Pain handles an inordinate amount of the writing and production duties), Rappa Ternt Sanga would've been a more-than-respectable debut.Review Summary: Roll up, roll up - the ringtone king brings the circus together for a patchy third album. The craziest offense is 'Studio Luv,' in which he comes out sounding more than a little silly: 'you remind me of a brand new saxophone,' 'your body's like a flute,' 'do you mind if I pluck up on your strings,' 'I would stroke your body like I do my keyboard.' Another hindrance is the digital vocal processing that pops up as often as water droplets in R. T-Pain has a seductive vocal style (he does sound somewhat similar to his mentor), plenty of effective hooks, and strong productions, but he presses too much when he tries to stick out lyrically. Rappa Ternt Sanga, beyond containing a few strong tracks with plenty of range between them, shows promise.

T-Pain caught Akon's attention when he released a version of 'Locked Up' titled 'I'm F***ed Up.' When Akon heard T-Pain's voice and realized there was more depth to the version than the title implied, he got in contact with the Florida-based 'rappa ternt sanga' (who also produces and writes) and signed him to his Jive-distributed Konvict Muzik label.

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