It's rare that this happens with an album, but I enjoy the middle portion of this more than anything else. The lead single, 'Cali Iz Active', has never really done it for me, but from track five 'It's Craccin' All Night' has an enjoyable dark atmospheric feel, 'Slow Your Roll' is bangin' and 'Hard on a Hoe', while not brilliant, is so ridiculously misogynistic it's funny. 'It's All Hood' is a nice vibey track that DPG albums always contain, and then the album rides out to 'She Likes Dat' (I don't have the bonus tracks) being somewhat inconsistent but featuring some reasonable tunes. The biggest difference this has from any other Dogg Pound album is that Daz who normally has a hand in most of the beats, doesn't produce anything on this. Battlecat, L.T. Moe, Swizz Beat, J-Dub, Soopafly, Ryan Leslie, Rick Rock, David Banner, 1500 or Nothin', Bangladesh and Jazze Pha are amongst the producers who provide beats for this release. In saying this though, it still doesn't venture too far from what they've done and it still feels west coast, it is though a vast improvement from the generic beats that are on their previous album. There ain't anything too special but it's worth checking out for fans. Best Tracks: It's Craccin' All Night, Slow Your Roll, Keepin' It Gangsta, It's All Hood, Don't Sweat It, Thrown Up da C

The Pound's last album, 'Dogg Chit', had some really good hard melodic beats and rapping but this album mostly fails to impress in the production department. And considering Daz and Ivan Johnson are doing most of them as they did on 'Dogg Chit', the difference is surprising. They are fairly generic beats and even the Lil' Jon produced 'No'mo Police Brutality' is lacklustre. Thankfully from there and about halfway through there are a few more tracks that have appeal in the second half of the album. 'On & On' is one of these and it improves after that. It features a Biggie sample on the hook and the beat is more catchy than most of the previous songs. The next track 'They Don't Want It' produced by Soopafly is good as well and features a really raw type of beat which changes up a few times. Nothing is brilliant but from there I enjoy more of what the album has to offer than the first ten or so tracks, so definitely don't turn off mid-way through as there is some nicer stuff later on. Still though, while both Daz and Kurupt are enjoyable as always, as with most Dogg Pound and gangsta rap lyrically, it's generic, so you need more bangin' beats and there ain't enough on this album to have someone coming back for more I wouldn't have thought. Best Tracks: That Was Then This Is Now, On & On, They Don't Want It, Tha Liquor Store, Westside Rydin, Get My Drink On & My Smoke On, How Tha West Was Won

The first disc is full of pretty strong G-Funk/Gangsta Rap beats, with plenty of great features to go with it. It definitely drops off with some strange songs like J-Lo's 'Play' being featured in the second disc though.

Another more than solid west coast album from D.A.Z. It is a formulaic Dillinger album - it begins bangin' with 'Destruction Adds Up to Zero', gets more vibey in the middle and the subject matter goes toward the opposite sex, and then it finishes with some more hardcore west coast bangers. Well worth checking out if you have enjoyed anything Daz has created in recent times. Best Tracks: D.A.Z. (Destruction Adds Up to Zero), $till Get'N Money, Don't U Eva 4 Get

I've probably said it in many of my reviews of Daz's albums but he is comfortably a top 5-10 rapper/producer and doesn't get enough praise. You have Paris, Erick Sermon, Kanye, Large Pro to name a few in the top bracket and Daz definitely belongs. He is still doing it in 2018 as well. This is just a consistent west coast release easy to play from start to finish with some standouts. 'Drama' and 'Load Up' are bangin'. 'Bitch Bitch Bitch Make Me Rich' is an extremely funky, catchy tune. 'Redrum Galour!' offers something different with some electric guitars hitting the drums. The title track offers some funk with fire rapping. 'For the Moment' is the slowest, 'vibe-iest' tune here and is another standout. Beats: ★★★★☆ Bars: ★★★☆ Best Tracks: Drama, Bitch Bitch Bitch Make Me Rich, We Do This Passion!, Load Up, For the Moment.