Sean Kingston knew he'd been pegged as a one-smash wonder after the massive success of "Beautiful Girls" in 2007. So many factors seemed to shout "novelty": the Jamaican accent; the "Stand by Me" sample; the everyman appeal of an average, lovelorn teenager who seemed modest in both his physique and his persona. Unrepeatable, you say? "You've gotta prove people wrong," Kingston says in his exclusive video interview for Pepsi Music. "I know I'm here to stay." 

And here he is, unstricken by the sophomore jinx after all, and turning up for a three-song Pepsi Music performance. Two of the songs Kingston and his crew did for our cameras come from his forthcoming album, Tomorrow, starting with "Fire Burning." "I knew right away when I wrote it that it was gonna be a club smash, but I didn't know if it could be a first single," he told us. Good thing cooler heads prevailed in this "Fire"-storm, because the song went to No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and proved a ubiquitous summer single.

Here's his live rendering of the hit:

But if you want a Kingston who's positively (but really only figuratively) "suicidal," then of course you need to go back to his 2007 breakout hit, "Beautiful Girls." He'll be pleased to revive that sad-sack anthem for you... right here:  

If you want more of a glimpse of the very young man behind the music, the 19-year-old Jamaican-American spoke to us about achieving his dreams, and his determination to keep on being a multi-hit wonder, in the following video interview:

The new album, Tomorrow, comes out... no, not tomorrow (though wouldn't that be convenient?), but September 22. Though the debut was strictly a hookup with producer J.R. Rotem, this one features our boy venturing farther afield and collaborating with artists ranging from Good Charlotte to Wyclef.

In the meantime, now that you've seen so much of Sean in the Pepsi-Music-performance flesh, maybe you'd like to take a look at him in animated form in the new "Face Drop" video. "I knew the 'Face Drop' video would be half-animation, half-real," he said. "But I went to go shoot the video and I only had to shoot for like an hour and a half... and I was done. I was like, dude, something is wrong, why is this video so short?... This video is probably gonna be wack!" But when he saw the end result, he proclaimed it "dope." Render your own verdict after getting a gander right here.