I was indifferent to the album when it first came out. From my first listen I was wowed with maybe two songs. The press kept hyping up her working with Tim; it was all lackluster to me. I found some of the beats to be weird, and couldn't compete with his past work. I felt it lacked uptempos and radio records and Songs like "Focus" went on way too long imo. It has grown on me but I still believe it could have been better.
As for the marketing, Benny did his thang. She was everywhere and was seen; everyone knew she had a cd coming out. The way he had her over every black magazine was dope to me. Every week she was on somebody's tv show, and airing on the 3 music channels constantly with (hosting 106 & park, making the videos etc) I was very impressed with this push!