For me to rate an album 4/5, it has to have some great songs that I am going to add to a best of genre playlist. Apparently made in three days, this is almost always a really consistent easy enjoyable listen, but it doesn't have the highlights. There probably isn't a top 25 Lupe song here. A light 3.5/5. Beats: ★★★☆ Rapping/Bars: ★★★★ Hooks: ★★★ Best Tracks: Ghoti, Naomi, Drill Music in Zion

This is between a 3 and 3.5 out of 5 for me. It's an enjoyable experience, but after a number of plays, nothing much has stood out. There isn't a lot of differentiate the tracks at times. When there are choruses, they aren't very memorable. Again, Wayne brings his annoying voice to his feature. 'Tear Gas' would be a highlight without that. T.I. brings his mumble style too. There are moments of likeable consciousness in the bars, at other times generic gangsta rap. Best Tracks: Piano Love, Drumwork, Stressed, God Don't Make Mistakes

There are lots of different styles here from funk, soul, R&B, Latin, reggae, gangsta rap and what sounds like '50s pop-soul on 'Wait a Minute Baby' and 'Everybody Watching' that have a strong throwback feel. I love good R&B that goes somewhere, but too many of these R&B/soul tracks end as they start. There is virtually zero build up. 'Higher Power' is one such example that also ends with a rap where the rapper raps in this annoying melancholy expression that so many seem to think sounds good. While the project is titled 'Death Row Summer', there isn't much of the genre here that Death Row was famous for. The best of them is Tha Dogg Pound's 'Whoopty Whoop'. Like I said, too many slow moving songs that go nowhere. If you love that D'Angelo type of R&B you may get more out of this than me. Best Tracks: Bad, Touch Away, Whoopty Whoop, Baila Conmigo

I thought I'd checked out everything Ice Cube had major involvement in, but then I found this. The rappers aren't as controversial and ear-catching as groups like Da Lench Mob, or as good as other west coast rappers he has been associated with like WC. The best songs have elements of originality, and you won't have an issue playing this through numerous times if you like g-funk, but the high moments aren't here and many of the songs sound like so much other mid-'90s west coast g-funk production. Between a 3 and 3.5 out of 5. Best Tracks: What You Wanna Do, OG's Trippin', Bounce Rock Skate

The first two songs bump. 'Bell Biv Devoe' borrows from Nas' 'What Goes Around' and then 'Late Night Ridin' Again' picks up the funk. That is the best it gets. Track 3 is good, 4 is the weakest and 5 is just basically a funky instumental. The production doesn't sound as crisp as what he had on 'Brains All Over the Streets' but is still enjoyable to listen to and T-K.A.S.H. talks about how no one is rapping about anything anymore and about pro-Black, socially 'conscious' topics. Best Tracks: Bell Biv Devoe, Late Night Ridin' Again.