This is right between a 3-3.5 for me. It's a really easy listen with some well known songs being used as samples like Slick Rick's 'Hey New World' on 'Love, Peace & Nappiness', and I-Level's 'Give Me' on 'So Love', but there isn't anything amazing from a time period with lots of great boom bap. It doesn't sound brilliantly mixed either. It's worth noting that Canibus kills 'Beasts from the East'. Best Tracks: Me and My Crazy World, Beasts from the East, Love Peace & Nappiness, What's Wrong, Games, From My Family to Yours (Dedication)

I heard 'Gimme Room' on a YouTube stream playing underground hip hop and thought that I needed to check the album out ASAP. Nothing beats the aforementioned song, but there are a number of other high moments with Rhyme being an engaging spitter. Listening to this I was unsure where he was from. There is boom bap, but also some g-funk, and he seems to shout out both areas. I can't find any info on Rhyme himself but the album seems to have been recorded in Chicago. Worth checking out. Best Tracks: Devil's Advocate, Gimme Room, West Side Till I Die, Necessary Evil, Black Eyes in the Game

I just had my my second attempt to get through this having tried months ago and only lasting about an hour with failed plans to go back to it. I haven't seen Justice League since it came out, so I don't remember it well enough to say exactly what extra scenes this has/has omitted, but damn, it's way too long. I mean, you don't see Superman until 2hrs 40min into it. However, given its extra running time, it does allow it to include more scenes from everyone, particularly The Flash and Cyborg, so it doesn't feel as rushed as the original cut. Batman feels out of place and useless in this unrealistic world with these amazingly powerful friends and foes. He still does some important acts to assist his League, but he doesn't feel required apart from the act of helping them get together in the first place. The main issue with this is that the fighting scenes aren't very interesting, the villains are boring, and the CGI/green screen is overdone and seems incredibly cheap. The movie just isn't very good to look at because of this. Why does it look so ugly? This version does nothing to rectify those issues. For such a long film, the Justice League members never get very close or build much of a relationship apart from the odd quips. Aquaman feels like he was tacked on in a rewrite.

Wayne shares some thoughts around major incidents in his career, but as a United fan, there isn't much new information I got out of this. As it's only an hour long, it moves along a little too quickly as well.

I love the premise of hip hop legends being given a relaxed platform to be interviewed about everything they've done in their career but too often these seem like a missed opportunity. One of the big problems is Nore who is not a very good host. While he knows his hip hop history, himself being a small part of it, he interrupts the guest too often and his "MAKE SOME NOISE" act every 5 minutes is annoying. One of the lines you hear often from Nore is that the show gives its flowers to the legends while they are still here, but there isn't enough of what made them earn the flowers spoken about. The recent The Game interview is a perfect example. It is 4 hours long but very few of his songs, albums, upcoming projects, creative process, etc, are spoken about. Instead they talk about finger banging techniques.