Britney's man debuts rap album

NEW YORK - The rap debut of Kevin Federline -- known as K-Fed to some but to most as Mr. Britney Spears -- features only a snippet of his lyrical prowess. Given the response to it, even less might have been better.\n"PopoZao,"a Brazilian-inspired groove which features Federline rapping about large posteriors in-between a few yelps and a gruff-voiced chorus, made its debut on the Internet earlier this month. Though the track is three minutes long and Federline's rap lasts for less than a minute, it has already become a popular music track circulating on the Web.\nBut popular and likable are two distinct notions when it comes to "PopoZao." Entertainment Weekly said it was worse than expected while the music trade magazine Billboard called it "a monument to mediocrity."\n"It's incredible -- incredibly horrible," laughs DJ Star of the raucous Star & Buc Wild show, which broadcasts from New York's Power 105.1 but is syndicated nationally.\n"The good news is there's a lot of exposure for him; the bad news is 75 percent are rating it as an 'F,'" says Jack Isquith, executive director at AOL Music, which devoted a whole page -- mockingly titled "The Emancipation of K-Fed" -- to the song, and allowed visitors to rate "PopoZao." He said a half-million visitors have been on the site and about 85,000 have played the song.\n"So far, there's a lot of interest but not a lot of people yet are feeling this is a great song or his career is going to go," he said.\nStill, Federline bets he'll end up having the last laugh once his album, as yet untitled, is released this spring.\n"I'm not too worried about any of that," Federline said of the negative reviews in an interview last week with The Associated Press. "Eventually the music will speak for itself. You're only going to look at me like this for so long."\nThe public hasn't had much of a positive view ever since Spears thrust the baggy pants-wearing, chain-smoking Federline into the spotlight as her backup dancer -- and boyfriend -- in 2004. The couple's trashy exploits since hooking up include televising their quickie romance on the reality show "Chaotic" and wearing tracksuits at their wedding celebration (his read "Pimp Daddy" on the back), and have helped make K-Fed a tabloid-target and late-night show joke magnet.\n"He's running a close second for pimp of the decade," says Star. "He's right behind Bobby Brown."\nLately, gossip mongers have suggested that Spears, who recently gave birth to son Sean, is tiring of Federline's alleged partying ways, though Federline denies the rumors of strife.\n"I love my kids, I'm a proud father, a happy husband, and all of that," says Federline, who also has two children with ex-girlfriend Shar Jackson. "I live my life with my wife as a normal person and that's that."\nAnd Federline says he hasn't been spending most of his time partying, but working on the upcoming album.\n"I've been in the closet with it for a while," says Federline. "I don't know, guess I would have to say I'm the rookie of the year"