This is an incredibly weak compilation and a poor way to showcase label talent from a time when there was a lot of crap pop rap. The only song worth a second play is '10 Toes', but it's still nothing to write home about. 'Thow'd Off' got my attention for a second too as it gives off a bit of a 'Lean Back' feel with its instrumentation. Don't bother checking this one out. Best Tracks: 10 Toes

I've enjoyed some of Dreezy's previous work, but this is just generic trap rap. It staggers me that artists are still making albums like this. Trap rap like this is way past its musical shelf life. More proof that Hit Boy is overrated. Best Tracks: They Not Ready, 21 Questions

PHARRELL'S PRODUCTION Let the Smokers Shine the Coupes: One word. Hard!!! And the only true banger here. Scrape It Off: From loving a song after 5 seconds, to hating a song after 5 seconds. I hate the autotune voices of the hook/features. The only bad Pharrell song and the worst here. An instant skip. Neck & Wrist: The production is another winner. The rapping isn't the most "exciiiting" or energetic. Call My Bluff: A bit of a different type of flow from Pusha T - About as different as you get from him anyway. I like the production but the hook is boring. Open Air: Like the last song, the production is basically muted for the hook. This doesn't help the song. One of my favourites though. Brambleton: The production is again quite likeable following on from the previous three songs. The music again drops off for the hook. KANYE'S PRODUCTION Dreamin of the Past: I don't like how the sample blends in (or doesn't imo) with the rest of the song. It overpowers it. I would never want to hear this again. The second worst song. Rock N Roll: FFS! We have the WOAT Cudi again... And a return to the high pitched sampling from Kanye... I like this more than 'Dreamin of the Past' but not by much. Just So You Remember: Minimalist beat with Colonel Bagshot's 'Six Day War' sample for the chorus. Diet Coke: Here is a challenge for Pusha T on his next album - No coke bars. Challenge! Hear Me Clearly: Ehh. Same old boring generic Pusha T flow and the production does little for me either. I Pray For You: Neither does it to any high degree, but listen to Malice's verse and there is a bit more emotion in his delivery. I have never gotten the fanfare with Pusha T. Some people hold him up as an all time great MC. Does he have the content though of the best of them? Does he mix up his style as much as the greats? Do you hear much emotion in his voice? No f*cking way! Most of his songs are still about being a criminal drug dealer despite not doing it for 30 years. I find he says a lot without really saying anything. He has a dope standard voice but he's boring. I listened to this in the Pharrell vs. Ye tracklist order and Pharrell's production is more enjoyable and fresh. I don't find Kanye's high pitched repetitious sampling on songs like 'Rock N Roll' and 'Diet Coke' enjoyable to listen to or think it's creative. As the list below shows, the best three songs are Pharrell's work. I would actually say, 'Scrape It Off' aside, the other Pharrell songs are the best five on the disc. Beats: Pharrell: ★★★★ Kanye: ★★☆ Overall: ★★★ Rapping/Bars: ★★★ Hooks: ★★☆ Best Tracks: Let the Smokers Shine the Coupes, Open Air, Brambleton

With the amount of features here, it feels like a No Limit album that always had a large amount of verses from others than the primary one. The album art is terrible and some of the skits attached to the end of songs fit that theme feeling like something from the mind of a 12 year old boy. The opener, 'More Dangerous', samples 'Warning' by The Notorious B.I.G. and is helped by Busta's energy on the hook. 'Future Sport', with Redman kicking the song off, is hard not to bop the head to and with Joe Hooker's chorus, it feels a little like some of the songs he was on on Black Rob's debut. 'Play Around' feels even more like them. I'm surprised Hooker was a go to for Diddy to get on hooks for a while. He isn't a great singer. 'Girlfriend', 'Looking for a Lady', 'Everything', and to a lesser extent, 'Chicken Heads', provide some R&B/pop rap feels. '4 My Niggaz' is the song that caught my attention most on the first listen. The samples from 'Trans-Europe Express' by Kraftwerk, 'Al-Naafiysh' by Hashim and 'Computer Game' by Yellow Magic Orchestra make it sound original and like nothing else on the album. If only the hook wasn't lazy. I spun this a few times and there isn't anything that is hard to listen to. There is nothing Lil' Cease does as a rapper that makes him stand out. There are many features, but to be fair, particularly for the second half of the album, many are just used on the chorus. Much of the production, that is very sample heavy, is hard to dislike. Beats: ★★★ Rapping/Bars: ★★☆ Hooks: ★★☆ Best Tracks: More Dangerous, Future Sport, Looking for a Lady, 4 My Niggaz, Don't Stop, Everything

I'm surprised this has been so well received. A number of the songs sound the same. It's what sound like, soul samples, over a weak drum beat on an 8 bar loop. There are no hooks. There is minimal playing with flows. If you love Ransom's rapping, you'll like this, but I'll never go back to this.