Will '94 ever stop giving? While this doesn't match the best of the best, it's another worthwhile album from the greatest era in hip hop. Mike, a member of the Geto Boys for a short period in the early '90s in replacement of Willie D, doesn't have the greatest originality, but he does sound a tad like Pac and comes with a commanding presence. The production is funky and there are lots of high points. Lyrically, it's not just brainless gangsta rap with songs like 'Daddy's Gone', featuring Scarface, where they preach the responsibility men have to their children, and give some game for young wannabe gs on 'Playa Playa'. It's well worth checking out. If some of the slightly weaker songs like 'On da 1' and 'Southern Thang' were more engaging this would be a 4/5. Beats: ★★★★ Rapping/Bars: ★★★★ Hooks: ★★★☆ Best Tracks: Comin From the Swamp, Some Em & Choke 'Em, Havin' Things, On da Real, Get Over That, Daddy's Gone

The Teen Naughty by Nature/Onyx This is the first I've heard of Da Youngsta's. They are made up of three young rappers who would've been around 15-17 years of age when this album was released. At times they have a kind of Onyx-like yelling delivery, particularly on many of the hooks, and take shots at the pop rap group Kris Kross - "Get on stage like clowns and jump around". The beats are hard and would've felt right at home in '93. Naughty by Nature's producer, DJ Kay Gee, produced a few of these tracks and they definitely sound a lot like what Naughty was rapping over on their album from '93, '19 Naughty III'. Other producers here are Pete Rock, DJ Premier, Lawrence Goodman, Qur'an Goodman, The Beatnuts and Marley Marl. It's an enjoyable listen and is extremely consistent, but nothing stands out too much from a time when so much amazing hip hop was being created to give this a higher rating. There is no amazing track, and while consistent, the songs have too much of a similar sound too each other making it sound a bit same-same. Beats: ★★★★ Rapping/Bars: ★★★☆ Hooks: ★★★ Best Tracks: Crewz Pop, Count It Off, Da Hood, It'z Natural

The action scenes were well done, and I enjoyed the RoboCop influences, but it felt like it needed an extra act. There was so much time put into Yun Jung-yi/JUNG_E not being able to complete the simulation that then the ending came too quickly.

I find EPs tough to rate. This is all okay, but I generally feel if you're only going to give me 18 minutes of music it should all be fire which none of this is. There are some different sounds present, from trap, funk, with 'Cool and Da Gang' sampling Kool & the Gang's 'Fresh', songs that are fairly bare in the production department, like 'Craccin', and the opener, 'Or Na', that feels like it has production Kendrick Lamar has rapped over. As for the rapping, Suga Free stands out with his unique style and YeloHill doesn't to the same degree, but I don't find either amazingly engaging. Best Tracks: Vice City, Cool and Da Gang, Vice City Remix

4 years since Pooh's last album and the drop off is more prominent here after a number of projects that are well worth checking out. He was involved in a bank robbery case in February 2000, was proven guilty and was sentenced to 80 months. By then, he had apparently completed this album which was released shortly before he was imprisoned. Some of his verses, like on 'Mean Muggin', and 'I Got Love', sound like they were recorded over the phone though, so the lack of quality compared to his other albums makes sense as that tells you that this was rushed out if he couldn't get in the studio to record his verses properly. There just isn't anything that truly stands out on this one. Some of the outros go on too long like on 'Mean Muggin', the hooks aren't as catchy, and the production doesn't hit as well. As a side note, it's another album of his with misprints on the album art and the tracklist as a couple of his albums had before this as well. Here it was the tracklist that was messed up. Best Tracks: Fire, Part of the Game, I Got Love, The Town, Murder Murder