While brilliant at times, ('Born 2 Live'/'Point O Viewz'), on occasions the fairly raw boom bap beats just don't excel quite enough ('Time's Up'/'No Main Topic') to grade this with the absolute best of the best. And while O.C. can rap, he doesn't have that distinctiveness in his voice that most artists do in the albums I consider to be toward the top of the class. I think this shows in that while I've listened to this a few times, I haven't really paid much attention to the lyrics at all. Despite the mostly negative review (it's been praised enough I guess), as the rating suggests I still highly recommended this, but not enough tracks blow my mind to grade this as a pure classic. Best Tracks: Word...Life, O-Zone, Born 2 Live, Point O Viewz, Ga Head, Born 2 Live (remix)