A thief wants to come clean after meeting a woman who he wants to marry. The story has problems and when it tries to be tense and exciting it doesn't pull it off like Neeson's other films. Fairly forgettable.
I've never been a huge fan of the instrumental type of tracks that '80s and some early '90s rap albums used to have. I generally find them to lose their appeal fairly early on and this album is a good example of that for me. Most of the first half with Will (the rapper) telling the stories are fairly good tunes with such classics as 'Parents Just Don't Understand' and 'Here We Go Again' to name a couple, but by the second half the instrumentals (with DJ Jazzy) become to take up most of the tracks and I generally don't get very far into them without feeling bored. A good album though for the most part.
Best Tracks: Nightmare on My Street, Time to Chill, Here We Go Again, Parents Just Don't Understand.
About half of this is what you expect from a Keith Murray project, and the rest is really weak hip hop. Erick Sermon, who produced pretty much everything on his previous albums, is only involved in four of these songs and it shows, with some questionable, ill-fitting production. Of the four beats Erick created, three are comfortably among the best tracks here. 2-2.5/5
Best Tracks: The Carnage, Sucka Free, On Smash, Say Goodnite, Child of the Streets
I think I know why Puff signed Ma$e. He sounds like him. While people say Shyne sounded like Biggie, Ma$e has the same kind of mundane style Puff has. And while he is an okay rapper, Ma$e doesn't really bring about much emotion or energy to his raps either. The beats are what you'd expect from the era the album comes from, east coast beats with some shine, and while there is nothing horrendous here, there is also nothing that stands out. Even the best here are not amazing.
Best Tracks: Do You Wanna Get $?, 24 Hrs to Live
No Limit released mostly rap records, but this is predominantly R&B with some No Limit soldiers thrown in to rap some verses - for which C-Murder does a 2pac impersonation on 'It's Alright'. It's a very laid back album a lot of the time, to the point of becoming somewhat boring too often. Overall, it's alright, but after a couple of spins, I don't think I'll be going back to this.
Best Tracks: U Got That Fire, Part 3, Smoke My Life Away, Leave Her Alone