I've checked this out, and I will his follow-up album as well, due to the fantastic recent duet with Chrisette Michele, 'No Greater Love'. This begins quite poorly with an attempt at an upbeat R&B jam that sounds cheaply produced. It's a product of its time, sounding like a non-AAA R&B song from the early '00s. It gets a little better but never reaches anything noteworthy until 'Sweetest Sacrifice' at track 6 that begins an enjoyable run of tracks. 'Love Song' and the title track are songs in the second tier here, but the tracks below are the standouts. 3-2.5 / 5. Best Tracks: Sweetest Sacrifice, Don't Say Goodbye

[SPOILERS] I had never seen or heard of the famous viral video that is the reason why this was made, nor like Winnebago Man (Jack Rebney), do I see fuss with it; nevertheless, he is an interesting character and this is a documentary that's worth watching. Whilst he seemed resistant, and preferred to get on his soap box about politics, I would've liked to know more about Jack's background though. We learn a bit about his career within the media, but it only scratches the surface. The best moment of this is the ending where it's obvious how much joy Jack gets out of the admiration for him, particularly so after he unexpectedly loses his sight half way through the filming of the documentary.

The sound quality on this is fairly poor, and it proves that T-Rock has improved in all areas from lyrical ability, flow and song writing. However, that isn't surprising given Rock would have only been 15-16 years old when these were recorded. He has always had some Pac similarities but on this album, it is perhaps more prominent at times than it is these days also. Worth a listen for big T-Rock fans to see where it began, as this underground album created a buzz and led to him being signed to Three 6 but this is far from his best music.

There is no one who I enjoy rapping more these days than T-Rock, and he doesn't disappoint with his solo songs on this Rock Solid Mafia compilation. The others, particularly at the beginning of the album, are well worth hearing also, with Smoke on track 4 spitting like Bone Thugs, but it falls off with too many average tunes. Best Tracks: On My Job, The Past Few Days, Bottle 2 Drank, I Get It In, Under Pressure, Send Me a Sign

My main man, T-Rock, has been busy, with plans to drop a couple of albums soon. 'Papers' will be released a month later on August 20th and another is expected out later in the year. With that being so, I'm not surprised that in this label compilation a lot of these songs fail to reach true high peaks. Even the other Rock Solid Music family members, some of whom had a song on the similar 'Mafia Music' collaboration, don't come with as much heat as before. The rapping as usual is good, not only from Rock, but the likes of T.O.A. is quite Bone Thugs like, but the production isn't as good as you'll hear on recent T-Rock albums. A lot feels more like generic hardcore/trap, where for me T-Rock normally makes his stuff a tier better than that. Like the label's name this is solid, but there are few real high points. I can't wait for T-Rock's albums though. Best Tracks: Tryin to Make It, Stress