This starts off quite averagely until 'I Wanna Know' at track 5 that is one of Joe's best songs. From there, it meanders through with a couple of standouts. There are songs listed below that are practically 5 out of 5 songs, and then the rest are hovering near 3/5, so it's too hit or miss. One of Joe's weaker albums but there are still some great gems. Best Tracks: I Wanna Know, Treat Her Like a Lady, I Believe in You, Thank God I Found You (Make It Last Remix Edit)

A lot of the production from Kno is fantastic and does its best to match the mood Sadistik is going for lyrically. As I've found with Sadistik's raps in the past though, his dejected way of spitting makes it become boring. His style works better in an EP than over 18 songs. Best Tracks: You Don't Know, Ghostly Key, Disappear

In many of my reviews of Eminem's recent albums, I have often bemoaned about the amount of pop rap/unlikeable production or choppy flows. I don't think those criticisms can be directed at this album. For the most part, the rapping is amazing. In case anyone forgot, Eminem shows his skills right from the jump and continues to do so on many of these songs, more so than I remember on 'Revival' and the one or two albums before that, at least in a more enjoyable way-he doesn't seem to yell as much here. The amount of pop rap isn't extreme and to be honest I hardly even remember thinking about the beats on this throughout my first few listens until I read a negative comment about them. The beats are better than decent for the most part and after some bad production on so much of his recent work, I'll happily take what we've got here. The beat changes that one is more accustomed to hearing on a Kanye record work well here, particularly with 'Kamikaze' that improves the song at the right time. As always, lyrically there are some cringeworthy bars but they are sparse and I'm not going to pick out a word or bar or two and act like it's a big deal like others. Four songs I really like and have had on repeat, a few good ones, and the worst aren't offensive. His most consistent, easiest to listen to project in a decade. Best Tracks: Greatest, Lucky You, Not Alike, Fall

This has some of the greatest banging production on an album to kick it off. This is a 5/5 album up to 'Mutha-----'. The best songs are west coast influenced but have a sense of originality with a bit of a rock feel to some tracks. Unfortunately though the quality slips at times with the second half not being as strong. Best Tracks: LAX, Cold World, Saturday Night Live, Mutha-----, Criminal Set, Scent of a Woman

This is one of my favourite projects from the year so far. It has your standard Trae mood to it with its dark production and emotive lyrics, but I think this is one of the most consistent things he's done. Some of the production is quite dope too, with the sample on 'Lyric Forever' sounding a bit like something from a Kanye beat. Best Tracks: I Got Me, Nipsey, Lyric Forever, Never Know, Goin Through It, Smile