The album “Britney” was released 5 years ago today. Amazing album.

Aspiring rapper and Britney Spears barnacle Kevin Federline played his first New York show this weekend it kicked off the tour promoting his self-released debut, Playing With Fire and Webster Hall Saturday night was a curious sight indeed.

An informal survey of the crowd yielded a foursome who confessed that they were friends of K-Fed’s manager and had gotten free tickets; two judgment-reserving girls who also had free tickets, which they’d won from TRL; a priceless foreign couple who admitted they’d first heard of Kevin Federline “this day”; and one couple with mixed intentions. (She: “I’m not a fan, just really into the tabloids!” He, glumly: “My girlfriend made me come.”) And though the venue may have been sorely undersold estimates put the sparse crowd around 250, a sixth of the Webster Hall’s capacity the impenetrable bunch of hopped-up fans pressed against the stage were an undeniably ecstatic bunch packed five rows deep.

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This reprehensible rap debut finally offers Britney Spears’ much-mocked husband a platform to answer that burning question: Who is the real K-Fed? “I’m looney/All these model chicks want to do me”; “I’m the pimp of all pimps”; “I come tight with every rhyme.” Boasts like these go on ad infinitum over fourteen tracks. Federline’s rhyme flow is the opposite of tight: His voice is decidedly Southern, only he clearly pronounces his “r”s and name-checks things like Tanqueray (so 1992!) and his Yankees cap. Britney almost saves this tragicomedy with some sexy purring in her brief vocal cameo on “Crazy.” The rest is poison. If you can stomach making it all the way to the secret track, Federline actually offers one sage piece of advice: “Put your middle fingers up if you really don’t give a ****.”

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Kevin Federline leaves the trendy restaurant “Corio” in New York City. November 04, 2006. Click the picture below to access the entire set of pictures in the gallery.

Kevin Federline parties it up in New York after the release party for his debut album “Playing With Fire.” November 03, 2006. Pictures courtesy of Splash News Online! Click the picture below to access the entire set of pictures in the gallery.