When Disaster Strikes... 1997 Album

Busta Rhymes

This album starts to take off from 'Get High Tonight', that feels more like a song that could've been on Busta Rhymes' debut than most of the production elsewhere. Overall, I don't love the production on many of the tracks. 'Rhymes Galore' and 'Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See' come close to being amazing, but there is nothing that makes me too excited and there are some boring moments. 'So Hardcore' isn't interesting and some of the songs towards the end of the album, like 'The Body Rock', that features a boring Diddy contribution, also doesn't work too well. Particularly at the start of the album, I like how many tracks just kind of blend in from one another. Not enough albums do that. Busta is of course an entertaining rapper, but I've rarely loved his production choices over a whole project, and this is another example of that. It's fairly consistently good, but there is little here that grabs me on a high enough level to think about giving the album a higher rating. A light 3.5/5. Beats: ★★★ Rapping/Bars: ★★★★ Hooks: ★★★☆ Best Tracks: The Whole World Looking At Me, Get High Tonight, Turn It Up, Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See, We Could Take It Outside, Rhymes Galore, One