I don't know if it's largely down to Skyzoo, who isn't that much of original rapper, or what, but this just sounds like a fairly generic boom bap album to me without anything interesting enough in the production to make it that impressive. There are some good songs but nothing really stands out that I'll be going back to and a couple of songs have big problems. The applause throughout 'One Time' ruins what would be my favorite song from this. On the first play I paused it thinking another sound was coming from another app. The sample playing throughout 'Homegrown' is annoying and ruins that song too. Then you've got 'skits' attached to some songs reducing the flow of the album... 2.5-3/5 Best Tracks: Glorious, It's All Good, The Audacity of Dope

When I got ‘4.21…The Day After’ I didn’t really listen to it with high expectations. I've always enjoyed Method Man as a rapper but I’ve only liked some of the little Meth solo stuff I’d heard. After a couple of listens though it grew on me and I probably liked it more than I thought I would. Best Tracks: 4 Ever, Presidential MC,Fall Out, Dirty Mef, Say, Glide, Let's Ride As above shows, there are some songs I'm enjoying, but about 6-7 of the tracks are ones that I won’t listen to again (not including the 3 pointless skits) and probably skip past when listening to the CD. It's sort of hit or miss. I’d say the album is still worth listening to because of the top tracks but its hard to give it a brilliant score when there are as many irrelevant tracks as there are.

I'm not sure when all these were recorded, but 'Gotta Get This Money' is from the 2001 movie 'The Wash', at the end of 'Don't Do That' you hear Soopafly say "2004" and in 'Neva Gonna Give It Up', Snoop Dogg says "1999", so this seems to be more of a compilation from what I can tell. To the tracks now, and after one listen of this album I gave this a really poor rating, as nothing really caught my attention. But then the second time around I pumped up the volume more and I found some pretty good west coast toe tappin' beats. Nothing drags on as it shouldn't for the release being under 40 minutes and the 10 tracks just flow along nicely. Best Tracks: Gotta Get This Money, Fly Rides By, Neva Gonna Give It Up, On Tha Real, Somthin' To Bounce To

First I've heard of SPM who is currently incarcerated for sexual assault. The voice quality sounds pretty good so he must have great equipment on the inside. The overall production over the two discs is sort of soft, dark and emotional on a lot of the tracks... The first disc is mostly quality. By the second, which is apparently unreleased tracks, the production isn't different enough and most of the tracks aren't as good. Worth a listen if you like the described production I've mentioned, SPM spits some sad stuff. I love the best handful. First Disc: 4/5 Best Tracks: Swim, Mexican Heaven, The Last Chair Violinist, Dead Pictures, Are We Real, Dope House Mind, Jackers In My Home, Silhouettes Second Disc: 2.5/5 Best Tracks: Filthy Rich, The System, High Everyday (Screwed)

I've never liked the most well known song from this album, 'Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)'. To say the least, the sample is annoying, and as a side-note is there a harder titled softer song? Moving on, like his other albums there is some bad production. Swizz Beatz, who is very capable of producing terrible beats that somehow make it onto albums provides one with 'If I Should Die'. 'Nigga What, Nigga Who' is also pretty bad in the production department as is 'Money, Cash, Hoes' that has a vomit inducing beat - Again it's Swizz on the boards. Thankfully the following song 'A Week Ago' steps it up being the best song here sampling The Isley Brothers' 'Ballad for the Fall Soldier'. As I could copy and paste from my other Jay reviews, I find Jay's style overrated and his ear for beats poor. With his Vol series, he seems to also have gotten caught up in the Puff/JD pop production values from the time period this was created in and this is probably his worst produced album. Here his rapping and topics are probably a step down from the norm as well. A couple of good songs, but nothing groundbreaking, with a lot of average late '90s hip hop cuts. Best Tracks: Intro, Ride or Die, A Week Ago, It's Like That