Last Train to Paris: Review

After numerous delays Diddy's most recent studio effort 'last train to Paris' finally dropped on the 13th of December, and was an introduction to the duo of Dawn Richards (formerly of Danity kane, whatever happened to those.smh) and Kalenna Harper.

  The 3 time Grammy winner (including best rap album in 1998! geez!) has been quoted saying the "album is gonna be about love, feelings and emotion. Adding that, Last Train to Paris is a love story and the most vulnerable album I've ever been involved in. It's raw emotion — you get a feeling, a vibe." and interestingly he did just that.

 Its interesting to note that this 16 track "effort" had 16 guest vocals(a-la- DJ khaled), notably  lil wayne, Drake, trey songs, Nicki minaj, T.I, Rick Ross amongst others, and trust Diddy to do something new as usual by featuring vocals from Vogue (yes the magazine) editor in chief, Anna Wintour and Tommy Hilfiger himself,i am guessing that was just a means to beef up the couture/fashion concept of the album, but hey, its Diddy!  what do i know

  With production exclusively by diddy himself and Rodney jerkins (who produced that creepy telephone track by lady GaGa and Beyonce)

  The concept had so much potential: the story of Diddy's alter-ego travelling from London to Paris to lay claim to a lost love, thus I was expecting a world class album and to be honest I was surprised at the final offering’s hypnotic monotonous cruise

 I'm guessing a lot of people would say the album was awful, but let me remind you that in all honesty Diddy-dirty money is not a rap(per) group so if you want a rap album it would be better to go get a jay-Z CD.

 The album essentially is a glitzy, high fashion, Euro dance, hip-hop techno compilation and the presence of a variety of artistes on the album adds to its uniqueness, But even all of that couldn’t save the de-railed train (pun intended)

  Four singles preceded the album release they included "Angels", the controversial "Coming Home”, “Loving you no more" and "hello good morning" and they were all top notch tracks and in this day of ever lowering album sales I would say that’s a good start

  Stand out tracks include all 4 singles above along with "a$$ on the floor", "strobe lights" with Lil Wayne and "I know" which featured Chris brown

  Last Train To Paris or LTTP as its fondly called did 100,000 copies in its first week and honestly it was due to Diddy's complete and rather annoying takeover of twitter.It was ridiculous! it was LTTP this and LTTP that (i had to Unfollow him to save my phone battery hehehe)but by the second week twitter could only do so much as the album moved a mere 30,000 copies, by the 3rd week it was down to a little over 22,800 copies and its been pummeling ever since. Seems like it's gonna be a slow climb for LTTP to platinum ,with the likes of Kanye’s and Nicki's and even the king of Pop's posthumous effort eclipsing it in sales. At the time of writing this, the album isn’t moving 10,000 copies

My personal opinion was Diddy should have taken the back seat on this album and allowed Dawn and Kalenna take the spot. The album would have done better, we would have had something fresh and Diddy would have still been on it, but I’m guessing Diddy had other plans, you barely hear Dawn and Kalenna on 4 tracks.

  In conclusion, I think Diddy could have done better but his usual me! me! me! thinking ruined this one. Not everyone can be Kanye West, but definitely not a bad album, so i can only give it 2 stars