This is surprisingly pleasurable. It starts off well with a banger in 'Get Money' featuring Rick Ross. 'Born An O.G.' is quality largely thanks to Luda who is on fire. From there the pop rap starts which makes up a fair bit of the middle part of the album. The good thing is though most of them work, particularly 'Love Somebody' and 'Mine'. Tracks such as 'Zone', 'This Nigga Here' and 'Loco Wit the Cake' are your standard southern rap tracks, all are listenable but nothing original. Overall, Ruthless is nothing overly different than many other albums but it features some good tracks and there isn't one bad track which makes everything listenable throughout the 52 minute playing time. Best Tracks: Get Money, Born An O.G., Love Somebody, Mine, Wifey Material, Make a Toast

Nahum Grymes' second album feels more like an album than his debut 'Back of My Lac' did. It's much more consistent throughout and it doesn't take time to grow on you. His last required a forced listen after I liked this one to realise it was decent (3/5). While 'Round 2' doesn't feature a track as addictive as 'Bed', it still contains good choruses, which is what you want from an R&B album, good beats and build up in most songs. Overall, IMO this is a very high-quality R&B release that can be played right through with plenty of great tracks to hear. Best Tracks: Fall, Don't Go, Sing 2 U, Forever Ain't Enough, Fly

We Alright' begins alright. Wayne ruins it though with a generic verse featuring a foreseeable lame pussy line once again at the end of the song. It also didn't need to be 5 minutes long. The following 'Trophies' is solid. I don't like Drake but this goes okay with Drake changing his voice a bit at times. 'Bang' has some reasonable bars and will make you bounce. 'Senile' is minimalistic and basically just boring. 'Induction Speech' is about Euro's come up and is worthy largely thanks to a great sample. I'm not convinced on Lil Twist. Tha song is okay... as is 'Lookin’ Ass'. The dark production feels a bit wasted on the topic Minaj focuses on. 'Back It Up' features production we've all heard countless times. Next, the Lil Wayne solo, 'Moment', should lessen Wayne fans' hope of the upcoming Carter V being anything new from here, or hope for a return to a time when he was a good rapper. PJ Morton does his best Akon impersonation on the 'You Already Know' autotune assisted hook. The melody of this one reminds me heavily of 'Live Your Life' by T.I. I think that's what I'm thinking of. 'Catch Me at the Light' is a solid pop rap tune. 'Video Model' isn't great, but again Wayne makes it worse with his final verse. He helps the final song 'Good Day' though, with a catchy hook making for a passable tune. The beats are standard as are most of the topics spat about as one may expect from a Young Money compilation. The leader of the crew, Lil Wayne, needs to retire ASAP. Has anyone in the history of rap, sport, acting, you name it, continued to be in the mainstream despite falling off so prominently? The fact he is still able to sell records is a testament to how many fans he garnered when he was a reasonable rapper I guess. A number of the other rappers are generally nothing more than features, or mixtape rappers, and are not noteworthy either. Best Tracks: Trophies, Bang, Induction Speech, You Already Know

Not very good, just decent boom bap... I gave this a couple of plays but nothing stood out at all. The production isn't inventive or noteworthy and none of the hooks really stayed with me either. I've said this many times before, but skits/interludes make albums seem sluggish, particularly in this case when it pretty much starts off with 3 of them and has others included in songs. Best Tracks: Soundman, Shugah Shorty

While Ace Hood may come across as another generic gangster rapper affiliated with We the Best/MMG at times, he separates himself through being more consciously minded, shown lyrically in a number of songs throughout this album. Ace is also passionate on the mic and you'll have to like him as a rapper to enjoy this. Too many of the beats sound alike, not only to songs on this album, but with his past work, along with a number just not being that good. One of those albums whereupon early listens everything will blend in too much together. 2.5/5 after a couple of spins. Best Tracks: Trials & Tribulations, Pray for Me, Fuck Da World