Revolver

Revolver (stylized as REVOLVEЯ), is the fourth studio album by American musician T-Pain, released through Konvict Muzik, RCA Records and his own label Nappy Boy Entertainment on December 6, 2011. It is his first album released after the dissolution of his previous label, Jive Records. Recording sessions for the album have taken place from 2009 to 2011. T-Pain stated that the two R's in the word, RevolveЯ have been capitalized so that in the middle, it says "evolve", indicating that T-Pain has evolved as an artist, and as a person in the period from Thr33 Ringz up till RevolveЯ. He later stated that the R's were put to show how people can be deceived, and understand things incorrectly without looking at the inside of things and this is the scheme of the album. T-Pain announced that the album would be released on December 6 in the United States in an interview with Lady Jade on the F.A.M.E. tour bus, coincidentally this is the same release date of his first album, Rappa Ternt Sanga back in 2005. The singles "Take Your Shirt Off", "Reverse Cowgirl" and "Rap Song" (featuring Rick Ross) were released intended for inclusion on the album; however, due to poor chart performance, these songs would instead be re-dubbed as promotional singles. Background Work began on the album, originally titled UBER, during 2009, and the album was initially intended to be released during 2010. However, the album suffered a series of delays; although T-Pain claimed the album had been completed and mastered, he rescheduled the album's release date, to reflect his displeasure at generally falling music sales, which frustrated several fans. Despite this, he has since claimed that he would release the album when his account on the social networking site Twitter reaches a million "followers". T-Pain initially denied that Jay-Z's song "D.O.A. (Death of Autotune)" put him off from using Auto-Tune, the vocal pitch correcting technology he has frequently used throughout his previous work, he later confirmed that there would be a higher presence of Auto-Tune on the album, and later revealed he had stopped using the technology permanently and would rather use his own new version of it, called the T-Pain Effect, after leaving Antares Audio Technologies and signing with iZotope and using his very own "I Am T-Pain" microphone. In June 2010, T-Pain confirmed that the album had been completed and mastered, but that it will not be released until album sales increase.