Akon has been conquering the club scene for years and it doesn’t look like he will be slowing down anytime soon. The hitmaker has teamed up with Chris Brown and producer Polow Da Don for ‘Take It Down Low’, the latetst release from his ‘Stadium’ album (in stores September 13th).
Listen to the record below:
The production on the track follows in the vein of several of the major Hip-Hop hits on the radio today (Chris Brown’s ‘Look At Me Now’, Lil Wayne’s ‘6 Foot 7 Foot’) – busy and bass-heavy. However, if Akon was aiming to get a song that will rock the clubs as well as radio then he definitely achieved that goal.
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Akon’s back:) good news!!
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DON’T LIKE IT!
I hate this song!! lol
Chris is decent, but akon sounds like s***.
This is weak. Breezy barely saves it.
SUCKS N****
YOUR TIME IS UP !
GET YA BLACK ASS TO SOMALIA
OH NO SENEGAL IT WAS
What happen to akon, he used to be the shizzz now look….not even cb can save this song….
Akon can flop all he wants, he’s making money off of Lady Gaga.
FLOPPPPPPPP….booooo
Akon kiss my ass, he is so boring to me
Sorry but this is wack and Chris didn’t do much to it either.
If you are the FIRST person to comment, multiple times at that, then you obviously care! Dumbass!
Anywho, heard this last night, hated it! I can’t stand Akon’s voice & I really don’t see how he has been this successful with that voice. It just irks the s*** out of me & he sounds the same on every damn song! He may be a hot producer & have a lot of hits under his belt but I am so not a fan & this certainly did not help! I guess he’ll always be set since he’s making money off of Gaga though. He could probably give a damn what people think! *shrugs*
As for CB as long as he is rapping I 9/10 will not co-sign, especially if all he’s gonna rap about is money & strippers. He didn’t add anything to the song & his verse was so random like they just added his part in just to say it was featuring him. I seriously wonder if the people around him really believe that his rapping sucks & just don’t have the heart to tell him. I really wish he would stick to singing. *sigh*
Overall, the song was a HAM to me, well the beat did go hard but that’s about it. Polow usually delivers with the beats. It seems like every one wants to work with Chris cause he’s hot now but that doesn’t mean it will be a hit. If Akon releases this as a single & it does become a hit I’ll be shocked, but then again with the s*** that becomes a hit these days nothing really surprises me anymore. *shrugs*
can’t be asked to listen to the song but the title sounds like a gay anthem
This song is awful! Of all the wonderful things the two of them could have produced together FTW is this? Come on now Akon do you and Breezy we know that you are multitalented but this shows the music world very little. You rapped better on Fan of a Fan.
Still love you CB and thank goodness this isn’t your hot mess of a song! Hopefully this is just a throw away track they put out to scare ppl…LOL! The good song they mus be saving for later!
And Chris again, congrats on that certified GOLD selling CD after 3 weeks! F.A.M.E. in store now haters go cop that! 🙂
“strange” songs that people who made such HUGE hits as Chris Brown, Akon, Polow Da Don (and Ester Dean, I think I heard her) are always gonna do well on charts or at least, not flop.
if they chose to put it as a lead single, trust me. they know why (look at me now, single ladies, girls, knock out (korean), a milli)
Breezy, love you to death but this song is s***. Ewww..
This like the 20th leak from this STADIUM cd
I actually like this song. A great club songs. I go to club alot so I know whats hot in the urban clubs. Everyone hated LAMN and its selling better than all Chris singles. I loved LAMN from the beginning. I think most of Chris fans are used to bubble gum and love songs from him and can’t adjust to the urban songs. But Chris is targeting the urban community and most songs that does well are s**, rap, breakup songs. Keisha Cole said it herself on 106 Park, that love songs don’t do as well as Break up songs and songs with drama, or party songs. So keisha going back to what made her big in the beginning.
It’s great for the clubs, its very current. I kinda like it. But certain parts, like the take it do wn “break down” before CB’s part needs to be removed.
I don’t like that robotic sounding “take it down” at all.
It’s a grower though. It’ll be a hit cuz it’s fun like other current radio hits. Still need more real music out her though.
THIS IS A JOKE RIGHT? LOL ALMOST AS FUNNY AS GIRLS WHO RUN THE WORLD…..
Regardless, this song is going to get a lot of radio play, I think it will make the top 10 easily.
say what you want about Akon but he knows how to make hits..
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Girl, I am so over it. Chris will collab with ANYONE at this point and it’s sad. That boy just has no standards. He’ll do anything because his delusional fans will buy it. This is a hot ass mess.
*sips tea*
@vastandup Chris Brown can rap. He is actually very good at it. Im tired of people who do not love rap and hip hop other than the ocassional Jay Z song on their ipod judging rap skills.
He has it. Go cry somewhere else, when Chris raps. He does not do it much except for 2 songs on FAME.
If his own fans cannot see that he has real rap skills…..sad. Fine, i will point it out!
I am not a big fan and I can admit it.
This song kinda sucks though. His part is the only redeeming part. Its a s** song — what did you expect him to rap about — the economy!
@gucci Go have s**! tired queen!
@Gucci you really have no shame!! That sipping tea business is soooo yesterday. Come up with something better please! You are so IGNORANT. Hating on someone who don’t even know you exist! How sad is that???? How messed up your life must be! CB is living life! Can’t say the same for you!!!
@ROLAND EXACTLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!! You said it all!!!
@Gucci
I didnt know doing callabo with friends was considered having no standards. You must be one lonely son-of-a-b****.
He only collabs with friends? Girl when have you ever seen Chris and Justin Bieber or T-pain kicking it? This is called DESPERATION, so sit. And now I’m hating because I spill the true tea. It doesn’t even surprise me that Team Breezy wouldn’t be honest with themselves about this hot mess of a song.
Like I said girls, he has no standards. This song is proof.
*sips tea*
Breezy makes everything 10x better. The song will do great.
@GUCCI you are a goose
this is a** , the production was busy but it was good
akon voice sound SHOT , Chris is a rapper now ? LOL
they need to take this back to the lab asap
@Gucci
April 19, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Girl, I am so over it. Chris will collab with ANYONE at this point and it’s sad. That boy just has no standards. He’ll do anything because his delusional fans will buy it. This is a hot ass mess.
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LOL…you are just sad!! Girl find something to do!! Chris can work with whomever he chooses. He is merely a feature on this song. It’s not like USING SOMEONE to score a #1 singles as RiHOG has attempted to do with Britney Spears. That song has been kicking around the charts for quite sometime now. Her PR team over at Complete Scam Records decided to put together nother one of their great gimmicks!! She just used Britney’s name and popularity tin an attempt to score #1 song. I think its been all for not as Gaga has her by the HAIRLINE and is pulling hard!!
No one gives a crap about that awful song and STOLEN VIDEO CONCEPT! Lazy, lack of talent and no creativity makes the hot mess we all know as Raggedy RihANNa! #SIT and don’t worry about who Chris elects to work with!
LMAO at these ppl who stan for complete and utter rejects calling various artists and their music flop *cough* @Perrylicious. I mean dear you have been running around TGJ talking crazy about everyone from CB to BEYONCE! You best believe that either of their worst blunders outshine anything you stan for’s best effort! #HAVEASEAT!
@Gucci
Sweetheart do me a favor. Instead of sipping that cheap ass tea, why dont you sip a nice hot cup of shut the f*** up. Dont speak and what you dont know because it makes you look like a pressed and clueless jackass in the end. Justin Beiber and T-Pain has talked on more than one occasion on how they’ve hung out with Chris and how great of a person he is. Dont you feel like a callabo is was bond to happen? Are you being honest with yourself? If you dont like Chris, thats cool. But leave the cheap ass shots to yourself because they are doing zero in your favor.
Sounds kinda like Ester Dean is in parts of the song.
I met akon in miami he’s the greatest!
@gucci please just kill yorself you already have no life
i’m really not liking this song…. and i thought chris brown would have saved the song but he’s only on it for like 20 seconds
song is fire
Gucci
April 19, 2011 at 4:36 pm
He only collabs with friends? Girl when have you ever seen Chris and Justin Bieber or T-pain kicking it? This is called DESPERATION, so sit. And now I’m hating because I spill the true tea. It doesn’t even surprise me that Team Breezy wouldn’t be honest with themselves about this hot mess of a song.
Like I said girls, he has no standards. This song is proof.
*sips tea*
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Wow. Your comment has to be such a fail. Oh girl bye! Did you really just ask that? If you werte going to try and make a poitn at least use a better exmaple. Because I can’t think of anyone Chris collabs with he doesn’t hang out with. He is actually good friends with the both of them.
Tell me was that not T-Pain in the Beautiful People video with him and Chris joking around? Was Chris not at Justin Bieber Birthday Party? Did Justin just not rap LAMN on tour? Oh please. It has ntohing to do with the song being a hot mess but it has to do with the delusional tea your spilling calling him desperate for working with friends.
Anyways the song is……idk what to say…not good….I mean it could be Soulja Boy and Arab right?
Anyways I disagree with the he shouldn’t rap thing….well kinda. I mean he ain’t no Lupe or anything the only time I heard he rap something serious was on Champion. He usually just raps for fun which isn’t meant to be taken seriously. Like on LAMN. He was good. On this song though? Not really. Fan Of A Fan and In My Zone is good. I just don’t know why he seems to keep inching toward taking it seriously though. He can rap here and there and have fun but Maurice sweetheart don’t quit you day job with singing. I’m not trying to be one of those fans to tell him what he needs to do but it’s not for him other than just playing around with it.
NO!! I don’t like this not one bit
This does not need to be a single though. It’s a great club banger and the beat is dope but Akon doesn’t do it for me at all. And CB barely even sells the song for me. It could be so much better.
Who ready for She Ain’t You though? That song if already doing good on Urban and Rythmic radio. LEGGOO!
P.S, Ya’ll heard the line in the song where Chris is like “they say this liqour is bad for my kidney’s” oh boy don’t get cute because you are 21. You have said yoruself you aren’t a heavy drinker. You know damn well your favorite drink is a Strawberry Daiquiri lol. You only drink sissy drinks and you know it. Still love you though 😀
Chris was the only part that I was here for, but even his part was bad, in my opinion. I don’t understand this. I know that people want to make fun songs or club hits, but why not make a really good song that’s fun? It seems like what’s considered a fun song these days is auto – tuned garbage (lyrically) with a “nice beat”, and most of the time, the beats suck, especially with these dance – pop/techno songs.
And *DEAD* at the hypocrite posting comments about desperation. Thanks for the laughs!!! 🙂 I have to ask, have you ever seen Rih and BS kicking it???
And don’t get me wrong, I don’t think that just because we’ve never seen celebrities hanging out with one another that they aren’t friends, I’m just trying to make a point.
@Noodles I can’t wait for the “She Ain’t You” video!
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Gucci
April 19, 2011 at 4:36 pm
He only collabs with friends? Girl when have you ever seen Chris and Justin Bieber or T-pain kicking it? This is called DESPERATION, so sit. And now I’m hating because I spill the true tea. It doesn’t even surprise me that Team Breezy wouldn’t be honest with themselves about this hot mess of a song.
Like I said girls, he has no standards. This song is proof.
*sips tea*
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I see your troll ass is back talking s***! A bunch of BS as usual! You pop off at the mouth and obviously NEVER know what the f*** you are talking about it! Ain’t nothing about you hateful commesnt ‘truth’ just your weakass, ignorant, unfact based OPINIONS! Is your life that boring and pathetic that you have to come to a CB thread and talk s*** just to get a reaction out of people! B**** get a hobby!!
First of all this is Akon’s record for HIS album! CB knows this is a business and he is about that money! As overrated as I think Akon is, he is a hit maker and working with him is a good look. At this point Chris can no doubt demand a nice sum for a collaboration, so I’m sure if the right people ask, he will do the collab and get that check! His Grammy nominations PROVE that he has produced quality material when it comes to his music so doing a fun party record with no substance, like 90% of artist in the industry do now a days to get a hit including YOUR fave, is NOT a big deal!
Second of all, Chris works with his friends a lot and YES T-Pain & JB are his FRIENDS!! Just because you don’t see them together all the time doesn’t mean they aren’t friends! JB and T-Pain have their own lives and careers to focus on! They can’t be stuck under Chris all the time and vice versa!
So how do you explain Justin putting Chris on his remix album?!?! Is JB desperate too?? Justin isn’t in any position where he would ‘need’ to work with Chris for some attention! He put Chris on his album cause they are FRIENDS and he wanted to work with him! With all the trouble that CB has been in why would JB & his team risk possible backlash by working with Chris if he wasn’t a genuine friend to Chris?? JB was the one who announced their collaboration on twitter first. Usher and CB are boys so Usher probably encouraged JB to do the record with CB since Usher is JB’s mentor. Why the f*** would Usher allow his protege to work with Chris if he didn’t genuinely have a good relationship with Chris?!?! That doesn’t make any damn sense!!!
Furthermore, Chris went to JB’s birthday party & they went to the movies together because people that saw them there tweeted about it. Justin even said in an interview with MTV that he and CB are ‘great friends’ and he was excited to work with him and couldn’t wait for people to hear ‘Next To You’.
T-Pain and CB have been friends for a minute! That’s one of his closest friends in the industry! They have collaborated several times before and AFTER the incident! He was in CB’s ‘Beautiful People’ video and if you notice he only had people that he is close with in the industry in that video! Since when is T-Pain someone that is in high demand?? T-Pain hasn’t been that hot in years! If anything working with Chris can get him so shine again!
Chris isn’t desperate to work with ANYBODY cause as you can see he has been collaborating with a s*** load of artist these days cause people obviously see him as an asset! Even with all the drama he has been through, he still can work with big name artist and clearly people think he is worth the risk to work with!
B**** sit all the way the f*** down and don’t speak again until you can make some damn sense!
Texas Girl. Hollywood Dreams.
April 19, 2011 at 6:48 pm
@Gucci
Sweetheart do me a favor. Instead of sipping that cheap ass tea, why dont you sip a nice hot cup of shut the f*** up. Dont speak and what you dont know because it makes you look like a pressed and clueless jackass in the end. Justin Beiber and T-Pain has talked on more than one occasion on how they’ve hung out with Chris and how great of a person he is. Dont you feel like a callabo is was bond to happen? Are you being honest with yourself? If you dont like Chris, thats cool. But leave the cheap ass shots to yourself because they are doing zero in your favor.
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ALL OF THIS!! Damn, if I had read this before my last comment I could have saved myself from that long ass comment I posted! LMAO!!
Roland
April 19, 2011 at 4:10 pm
@vastandup Chris Brown can rap. He is actually very good at it. Im tired of people who do not love rap and hip hop other than the ocassional Jay Z song on their ipod judging rap skills.
He has it. Go cry somewhere else, when Chris raps. He does not do it much except for 2 songs on FAME.
If his own fans cannot see that he has real rap skills…..sad. Fine, i will point it out!
I am not a big fan and I can admit it.
This song kinda sucks though. His part is the only redeeming part. Its a s** song — what did you expect him to rap about — the economy!
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Another troll trying to come at me! Like I told that b**** the other day, I will say whatever the f*** I want to say about Chris or the topic at hand! If YOU don’t like it then too damn bad! I am not here to please you or anyone else!
FYI: He has rapped WAY more than just some two damn songs on FAME, it was more like 4 or 5 songs on FAME, and you know it! He has rapped on ALL of his mixtapes and as you can see on a lot of his features with other artist he’s rapping! It’s clearly something that he is making a habit, he has the right but I don’t like it! Sometimes his raps are OK, but IMO when he raps 9/10 he doesn’t add anything to the song! Especially when he gets outshined by other rappers on the songs *cough* Busta Ryhmes in ‘LAMN’. Rapping about strippers and money gets old and he does that too much!
If I don’t like something that Chris does I will say it and if it bothers you F*** YOU AND YOUR FEELINGS! I am not here to kiss his or anyone else’ ass! The topic was about this wack ass song, and I think CB’s verse was weak and I said it! I think a good 80% of his raps are weak and I perfer his SINGING to his rapping! F****** DEAL WITH IT!!!
If you want to kiss his ass and think his rapping is ‘real hip hop’ (rolls eyes) then that’s your dumbass, but I STRONGLY disagree!
Now like I told that other fool, SIT ALL THE WAY THE F*** DOWN and don’t come at me if you don’t want to get dragged!
mobwife (a.k.a. i’m an s&m loving billy goat)
April 19, 2011 at 3:13 pm
This song is awful! Of all the wonderful things the two of them could have produced together FTW is this? Come on now Akon do you and Breezy we know that you are multitalented but this shows the music world very little. You rapped better on Fan of a Fan.
Still love you CB and thank goodness this isn’t your hot mess of a song! Hopefully this is just a throw away track they put out to scare ppl…LOL! The good song they mus be saving for later!
And Chris again, congrats on that certified GOLD selling CD after 3 weeks! F.A.M.E. in store now haters go cop that!
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THANK YOU! An honest fan! Not some delusional ditzy b**** that co-signs everything he does! *side eyes* ‘certain people’ in here. SMH.
noodles
April 19, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Anyways the song is……idk what to say…not good….I mean it could be Soulja Boy and Arab right?
Anyways I disagree with the he shouldn’t rap thing….well kinda. I mean he ain’t no Lupe or anything the only time I heard he rap something serious was on Champion. He usually just raps for fun which isn’t meant to be taken seriously. Like on LAMN. He was good. On this song though? Not really. Fan Of A Fan and In My Zone is good. I just don’t know why he seems to keep inching toward taking it seriously though. He can rap here and there and have fun but Maurice sweetheart don’t quit you day job with singing. I’m not trying to be one of those fans to tell him what he needs to do but it’s not for him other than just playing around with it.
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Agreed! Except, I didn’t say he ‘couldn’t’ rap, it’s his choice, I just perfer it when he sings and I think he is rapping too much now a days. He has a nice flow at times, and I could tolerate his rapping on the mixtapes, but IMO his lyrics are all weak. When he raps he usally doesn’t add anything to the song. In a lot of songs he is rapping about strippers, money and petty s***. His only serious verse was in ‘Champion’ like you said. I understand that he is having ‘fun’ with it, but I just think at this point it is over kill and I am sick of it!
I’m not telling him what to do, cause I can’t! It’s clear he doesn’t listen to what people say anyway, but I am HONEST and will not co-sign everything he does and kiss his ass! Again *side eyes* certain people in this post.
@Va Stand Up
Oh I didn’t mean to say you were telling him what to do. Because to be honest no one can if they tried. I was jsut saying I don’t wanna be those fans that think they can tell him what to do when they don’t like something. It’s obvious he does alot of things he wants and we aren’t gonna neccessarly like. Example: The Album Cover for Graffiti. Lord if we had the power to make him do stuff than that cover would not exsisit. But overall he gives alot of credit to his fans and I appreciate that. Anyways I agree his rapping other than in Champion isn’t like on a serious level it’s just playing around having fun and I could defiently live without it.
By the time Fortune rolls around he might need to kill that though and leave it for the mixtapes. I like LAMN…Bomb is alright I didn’t really like Wiz on that particular track on F.A.M.E. so whatever. But like you said it’s like alright Chris we get you have a nice little flow but you sing and dance fine. You paint, draw, act, etc. What other talents do you need at this point? Lol.
B**** sit all the way the f*** down and don’t speak again until you can make some damn sense!
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ROTFLMAO! I can’t! I’m sorry that part of the comment just had me dying! Lol.
Oh and he does kinda rap in Yeah 3x doesn’t he? Would you consider that rapping? See I found that part in Yeah 3x cute when I first heard it and I still do. Again my opinion. My thing is I hope the rapping thing is a phase. Because him as a rapper on a scale of Soulja Boy to Lupe Fiasco he would be about higher than Waka Flocka Flame but lower than Ludacris. So you see his singing>>>>>>>
@Keesha
The She Ain’t You video will be life! Overall i enjoyed every track on F.A.M.E. it’s a great album but so far I think She Ain’t You is one of my favorite single because it’s just perfect. It’s good for pop and r&B kind of. It’s not too slow or too upbeat. It’s not the generic stuff on the radio(I love Yeah 3x and Chris brought more justice to a generic Pop song than anyone else could these days but She Ain’t You>>>). Like it’s perfection in a song lol! I don’t care what you say I love it!
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Not feeling this song…
Nice 😕
@EX – LAX,
lax
April 20, 2011 at 1:28 am
@ MOBHOG,,,,,,,,RIHOG SAYS FOR U
TO KISS HER TIGHT S*** ASS U
KNOW RIHOG IS THE SHITS WHEN YOUR ASS TALKS ABOUT HER IN
YOUR DAM SLEEP, SHE DOES NOT GIVE TWO FLIPS BOUT WHAT YOU
ARE YAPPING ABOUT EHEN SHE HAVE ONE ALBUM THAT COVERS
MANY OTHERS WHOLE DAM CAREERS, ARE SINGLES TAKE 5 OF HER
SINGLES COVES MANY CAREERS,S00000000000000000000000000000000
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Are you still talking sh*t? B*TCH I thought I told you to go jump out of a 50th floor window!
As for dreams of RiHOG….lol U tramp, that would be more like a damn NIGHTMARE! I’ll leave the drooling over this trollop to your delusional behind!…….BYE NOW!!
omg! Why are u guys speaking damn s*** bout this song?? K tell me if anyone of u could come out n do better! Sigh. They aint gonna be 10/10 everytime, think u should know dt. So sit ur dirty ass down n stop vomiting s***…lol
Tjoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!