Flo Rida - R.O.O.T.S.

1. Finally Here
2. Jump (feat. Nelly Furtado)
3. Gotta Get It (Dancer)
4. Shone Ft. Pleasure P
5. Right Round
6. R.O.O.T.S
7. Be On You (feat. Ne-Yo)
8. Mind On My Money
9. Available (feat. Akon)
10. Touch Me
11. Never
12. Sugar (feat. Wynter)
13. Rewind (feat. Wyclef)

Via NappyAfro

About a year ago, Flo Rida kicked the door down with his hit single “Low”. The album sold 85,891 copies in the first week but quickly fizzled out. This time Flo Rida presents us with an album that has its own roots in sincerity and humility. What does that mean for this album?
Let’s find out.

1. Finally Here
Produced by Drumma Boy
Drumma comes through with a decent track for the first song. The beat is a lot more emotional and methodical than I’d expect on a Flo Rida album. Flo quips on the hook “I just follow my dreams workin’ this 9 to 5, people keep tellin’ me my check is on the way/So sun up to sun down I’m grindin’, tryna make it by, prayin’ for my shit to come and take away the pain/That day is finally here”. Essentially, this song sounds like an anthem to money. There is nothing wrong with that, just nothing extra deep about it considering the title of the album.

2. Jump
Featuring Nelly Furtado; Produced by Mike Caren & Oligee
I’m trying to be open…but there is NOTHING I like about this song and I doubt that I am alone here. Are we STILL telling folks to jump? Are we still using salsa influenced samples for songs? SKIP.

3. Gotta Get It (Dancer)
Produced by Danja
So, we have started to mimic Tina Turner into bad dance songs? This song is extra synth and tech and may do well at the rave. I think someone will like it, but I’m not one of those people. I can’t say skip because the skit at the end of the song is type hysterical. There is a dude mockin’ Flo and he starts off with “Wannaputchuonnagroundlayyouallaroun’roun….” You need hear him do that shit. “WhenIstickMahBallsInYoMouuuuuuuuuuuf”

4. Shone
Featuring Pleasure P; Produced by Jim Jonsin & Dre & Vidal
If I could only use one word to describe this song, it would be “catchy”. I can’t front on this one. I hate how Pleasure sings “acSHONE” and I hate the idea of calling someone my “Shone” but the song is catchy as hell. Even though I am not feeling the word choice and I don’t think it will catch on, P sounds like a young Ne-Yo on this one and Flo does a good job of ridin’ this beat out.

5. Right Round
Featuring Kesha; Produced by Dr. Luke
Dr. Luke is a pretty well seasoned and successful producer in his own right. This song is the first single from the album and it’s set up with the explanation that this song has an international feel…they all do lately. I don’t know if it’s my return to the gym or what, but this song sounds like it’s made for those aerobic classes. The beat makes you nod your head/tap your feet.

Overall Score: 2/5

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Also, via Digital Spy

“I got the chance to visit Africa after my last album,” Flo Rida told DS a couple of weeks ago. “There’s a lot of people struggling over there. If anyone’s followed my career, they’ll know there’s been a lot of struggle along the way too.” Yes, you did read that correctly. Flo Rida, a rapper who struck gold in 2008 with a track called ‘Low’ that he wrote about “big booty” girls, is comparing his life’s troubles to those of an entire continent. Someone call Bob Geldof quick! Having named it R.O.O.T.S. (It stands for “Routes Of Overcoming The Struggle”), the hip-hop star is obviously taking his second album very, very seriously.

It’s rather odd, therefore, to find the muscle-bound rapper reeling off lyrics about “penis satisfaction” just four tracks into the new record. If there’s a theme to this album, it definitely isn’t struggle, grief or battling adversity. In fact, Flo spends more time discussing women’s bottoms than reminiscing about his childhood in the projects. Opening track ‘Finally Here’, with its message about “money not growing on trees”, is a little clichéd, but at least it’s well-meaning. Sadly these platitudes are as good as it gets on this bog-standard, testosterone-fuelled rap album.

If you can’t get enough of macho misogyny, then ‘Touch Me’, which features panting orgasmic females on backing vocals, should be right up your street. ‘Available’, which finds Flo promising to make a girl “wiggle” and features Akon’s nasal whining on the chorus, is a particular nadir. That said, the skit at the end of ‘Shone’, on which Flo talks about placing his genitals in a lady’s mouth, comes a pretty close second. Almost as foul as these lyrical howlers is the ‘Blue (Da Ba De)’ sample on ‘Sugar’, which manages to be even more irritating than the atrocious Eurocheese original.

Elsewhere, regulation party banger ‘Jump’ features a guest appearance from Nelly Furtado, who should really start questioning her agent. First James Morrison, now this? At least Furtado didn’t choose to guest on the ‘Private Dancer’-sampling filth of ‘Gotta Get It (Dancer)’. “Freaky dancer, dancing she loves it, do what you got to do,” raps Flo over the sort of cheap beats last heard on a Nelly record in 2003. If anyone had any lingering doubts as to Flo’s sexuality - does the macho pose on the sleeve not make it obvious? - he continues to pay tribute to dancing ladies on ‘Shone’ (”Gonna toss a couple dollars, I pop her bottles”) and single ‘Right Round’ (”Touching these a**es, watching them go down”).

On the title track, Flo Rida does refer to his upbringing in “the slums”, but it comes across as tokenistic and inappropriate within the ‘bling and bootie’ context of the album. Ultimately there’s nothing on R.O.O.T.S. which hasn’t been heard countless times before. Women are beautiful, Flo wants to sleep with them and he gets to do so rather a lot. All this record proves is that the cash must be making him popular with the ladies, because there’s very little attraction to his robotic, by-numbers hip-hop.

Overall Score: 2/5

Also, Via AllMusic

Standing for “Route of Overcoming the Struggle,” R.O.O.T.S. is an especially unreasonable title for Flo Rida’s follow-up to Mail on Sunday, the album featuring megahit “Low.” With the handful of plaintive or reflective numbers included here all being forgettable and dull, it’s way too noble a title, one that points out all the album’s shortcomings. The autobiographical opener, “Finally Here,” seems bemused by life’s journey, not in awe, and “Rewind” is a hackneyed closer with a thin “turn back time” metaphor supported by Wyclef’s pathos for hire. Of course, the reason you’re here is for the numerous poptastic club tracks, all infectious and empty in true ringtone rapper style. The Dead or Alive interpolating “Right Round” is “Low”’s heir apparent, a horribly infectious single created by producer Doctor Luke (who previously worked for Lily Allen) plus Koool Kojak (who previously worked for Andy Milonakis). Even more ridiculous is “Sugar,” a song shameless enough to “incorporate elements” of Eiffel 65’s Euro-trash earworm “Blue (Da Ba Dee).” With its upbeat call-and-response hook being delivered by an Auto-Tuned Nelly Furtado, the target audience for “Jump” has to be the local cheerleading troop, and if you’re expecting Fergie or Gwen Stefani to show up during this pop-rap spectacular, you instead get decent shots from Ne-Yo and Akon. The unsurprisingly inconsistent R.O.O.T.S. is hip-hop like Nas never happened, a flash or fodder album owing more to Lady GaGa than to Public Enemy. If you enjoy the hook, you enjoy the song, and if you’re headed to the club in a fine ride on a Friday night, you’ll likely fall for about half.

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1. Finally Here 2. Jump (feat. Nelly Furtado) 3. Gotta Get It (Dancer) 4. Shone Ft. Pleasure P 5. Right Round 6. R.O.O.T.S 7. Be On You (feat. Ne-Yo) 8. Mind On My Money 9. Available (feat. Akon) 10. Touch Me 11. Never 12. Sugar (feat. Wynter) 13. Rewind (feat. Wyclef) Via NappyAfro About a year [...]

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