At long last I venture into older Roots material, and this is more to my liking. The production on their latest couple of albums I've heard, have often left me disappointed and wondering where all the hype and love comes from with these guys. These beats though are nice boom bap/jazz rap beats which feel like they could have come a few years earlier in '94 and are more enjoyable. There still ain't anything I find amazing here, but there are plenty of good tunes, albeit maybe a few too many as the album stretches 80 minutes, and the beats ain't really different enough to do that with great success. Best Tracks: Respond/React, Clones, It Just Don't Stop, What They Do, Universe at War

Runaway Slave' with the Versatile & Dilemma produced beat (which was also used on 'Pray For Me', the best track from Joe Budden's 'Padded Room' and 'Floating' are quite good tracks and the only ones I would give that tag from this album. They are a lil' more darkly produced and more to my liking. I have to say though, I think Joe did better with it. To the artist now and Maino doesn't strike me as much out of the box. Most of the subject matter has been done a million times. Such as on 'Let's Make a Movie', which is obviously about filming sex and there's plenty of brag rap also and some hood stories but nothing is that appealing. It doesn't usually bother me if the beats are banging but most of these are just okay. About four tracks fit into the category below the two I mentioned at the beginning of this review and are okay-good tunes which I will list below. Overall though, 'If Tomorrow Comes...' is a fairly boring release and apart from the few tracks mentioned not much will have you coming back for another listen if any does. Best Tracks: Runaway Slave, Pray For Me, Gangsta, All the Above, Kill You (reminds me a lil' of Eminem's recent subject matter), Remember My Name.

All in all some of the beats are average, but when Luda comes, he still comes with that mic presence, flow and charisma that made him who he is in the rap world. I hope that for the album that has seemingly been coming for years, Luda gets more beats that suit him well, as he is still an attention grabbing rapper. Best Tracks: Raised in the South, Shes a Trip, Mad Fo

I'm still yet to listen to all of The Roots earlier, slightly more acclaimed material, however, after listening to this and their previous release, and seeing fans of their earlier material still predominately enjoying them, I'm not sure it will do me any good. My main issue with this album is just that nothing grabs me a lot. The hooks are too soft and at times annoying with corny, poor lyrics. 'Right On' is an example of the annoyance of the chorus - very whiny high kind of singing. Also, the rappers, largely Black Thought, don't do much for me as far as their voices go, there ain't a lot of distinctiveness. You could pick a 2pac, Rakim, Ice Cube, Biggie etc out of a crowd of thousands, Black Thought doesn't have that quality. Furthermore, just as I give long albums some leeway, a short album like this needs to knock my socks off, which is doesn't. And call me crazy but I don't understand what you are meant to do with the couple of 40-second songs either. They are over before they begin.

I don't get the Chingy hate that you get in some corners of the internet. Sure his lyrics aren't great, but neither are a number of acclaimed rappers. He can rap and his beat selection isn't too bad here. That is, until the last few songs where the quality really falls away. I think I'm yet to hear one song with Fatman Scoop that has been good. Some decent songs. Best Tracks: Club Gettin Crowded, Nike Aurrs and Crispy Tees, Cadillac Door, Pullin Me Back