As with Akon's previous two albums, this isn't a start to finish venture but it's his best effort. The consistency is greater and the number of songs to keep in a playlist is higher. It begins with some contagious high tempo dance-pop tunes, gets a touch more hip-hoppy in the middle and finishes with some more straight-up uplifting R&B. I go back to a number of songs on this often and never tire of them. *Written in 2K19 Best Tracks: Right Now (Na Na), Right Now (Na Na), Right Now (Na Na), Troublemaker, Over the Edge, Freedom

A long album with long song titles. This is another that I can understand why people like it. The instrumentation is deep, varied and there are nice melodies. BUT, too much of it is too...ahh...happy sounding, for want of a better description. It's a similar problem I have with some of Jon Bellion's music. It sounds like some Disney BS. I feel too, being used to R&B, where the singing is often amazing, that the vocals aren't great. It's one I'm torn on. I don't think it's crap, like some other highly rated music on this site, but it isn't for me. 'The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!' is my pick.

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