Lessons In Love : Lloyd : Review : Rolling Stone

Lloyd Harlin Polite Jr. isn't your average R&B smoothie — he's much hornier. On his third album, the 22-year-old New Orleans native trains his high croon on titles like "Have My Baby" and "Sex Education," coming off like a pop-wise lothario or a slightly less-weird version of R. Kelly. With help from producers like Eric Hudson and Polow Da Don, Lloyd keeps it brightly tuneful over an Eric B. and Rakim sample and other pricey beats outfitted with electro squiggles. Between its love for international women, swank synth hooks and a typically playful verse from Lil Wayne, "Girls Around the World" is a midtempo jam fit for a romantic night spent stripping off a nice beige suit and making love in a swank Dubai hotel. Throughout Lessons in Love, Lloyd sounds like he's actually having fun dishing out come-ons, adding an emphatic exuberance to each one. As he puts it on a Kelly-worthy bit from "Year of the Lover," "I'm-a put you up on the stove and take off all of your clothes/Girl, watch me cook."