So Sean Paul did not adopt the Mohawk for nothing: announced for 30 January, Sean Paul's new album is called "Tomahawk Technique". In an interview with the Reuters news agency, the Jamaican deejay promised his fans plenty of surprises on the follow-up to "Imperial Blaze", released in 2009 (and nominated for a Grammy Award): "What will surprise my fans is that I sing a lot more, and in high notes that I never used before".
"It's a mixture of pop and dance," Sean Paul describes. Basically, what we have already been able to hear on the second single, She doesn't mind. Indeed, the producers gathered around him have little to do with Jamaica: Rico Love, Benny Blanco and Stargate, who worked on hits for Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and Rihanna. "I'm opening up artistically, I'm working with producers and artists I had never worked with before." For the first time too, Sean Paul recorded most of the album abroad (New York and Miami) rather than in Jamaica.
The featurings are in the same vein: we already knew Got 2 luv U, with the American singer and actress Alexis Jordan, and we should also expect a duet with Kelly Rowland, one of the three singers of Destiny’s Child. And even a collaboration kept secret with an R&B star: "It's a song written by Rico Love, and we're going to have an R&B guy sing, but I won't tell you who it is…"