There ain't a lot not to like throughout Ginuwine's 6th album ('Apologize' is seen as unofficial). It's packed with solid modern R&B tracks with catchy choruses and good production. The rap features work pretty well also with Bun B on 'Trouble' and Missy Elliot on the one real uptempo club track on the album produced by Timbaland called 'Get Involved'. However, the best songs come from your standard R&B template with emotive lyrics and contagious choruses. Such tracks are 'Orchestra', which is my pick from the disc, with 'Touch Me' and 'Open the Door' being others. On the other hand there are some tracks such as 'Used to Be the One' and 'One Time for Love' which may not be on the playlist for long but all in all A Man's Thoughts is a good mature R&B album with enough tracks with replay value to be one of the better ones I've heard in a while. Best Tracks: Orchestra, Show Off, Open the Door, Show Me the Way, Lying to Each Other, Touch Me, Last Chance

This begins well. 'This Can't Be Real' has nice soulful production, the Jake One produced 'It's Over' is outstanding and 'Still Got Love' with Isaac Hayes's 'Ike's Mood I' sample is another soulfully produced track. Then it runs into some problems. The 'Roc-A-Fella Billionaires' beat isn't to my liking, I think that the 'The Way We Were / Try to Remember' by Gladys Knight & the Pips sample is overused on 'When They Remember' and 'Take It to the Top' with Curtis goes for a pop sound and isn't anything to write home about. The next three songs aren't bad, but all come and go. Next, the beat on 'Baby Don't Do It' is almost identical to 'Don't Do It' from 'The Recession'. Jeezy does his thing better on it though. 'Nuttin' on Me', 'Walk Wit Me' and 'Lights Get Low' then give this album an injection of needed pace with some bangers, and 'I Cry' finishes the album off well. There are many soul samples featured throughout this album and Freeway does his usual thing, but there isn't enough content that is attention-grabbing, particularly throughout a large portion of the middle of the album. Solid though with a few memorable tracks, similar to his debut. This one just has a couple that are next level memorable songs though for me to give it a higher rating than Free's debut. Best Tracks: This Can't Be Real, It's Over, Nuttin' on Me, Walk Wit Me.

Freeway's last 2 albums have been ones I've enjoyed to some degree. While I haven't been able to play them all the way through, they have had some dope tracks on 'em. I had 'Walk Wit Me' and 'It's Over' on my mp3 player for ages from 'Free at Last'. Philadelphia Freeway 2 probably doesn't have standouts like that, but it's the most consistent, which it probably should be for only containing nine proper songs - eight if you discount 'Keep You Hands Up' which is just a remix of 'Hands Up'. Nevertheless, I must be hearing what other people hating on this aren't, because I enjoy every song considerably and wouldn't wait to recommend this release. A very solid concise album with beats that talk to me and catchy hooks. Best Tracks: Gotz 2 Be tha Bomb, Around the World, Streets Won't Miss'em

Maybe I listened to Free's most recent project too much because some of the beats on this remind me of that, (particularly 'Throw Your Hands Up'). The production sounding similar to me must just be the type of beats Free likes because Jake One who produced this whole album had nothing to do with 'Philadelphia Freeway 2'. But I do think there is a similar type of vibe here, so for people who didn't like that but love this maybe another listen is needed. Vocally Freeway also doesn't give me as much enjoyment on the microphone either. Despite this negativity though, it is still a solid album, feels like an album and is fairly consistent all the way through. It's just that no track made me take a heap of notice to it throughout my few spins of the album which obviously limits its replayability. Best Tracks: She Makes Me Feel Alright, Never Gonna Change, Microphone Killa, Follow My Moves, Stimulus Outro.

I've always felt that this was slightly overrated. The first two songs are okay, but get a bit stale. Thanks to Nate Dogg's dark vocals on the hook, 'All My Life' is an improvement. Some of the following tracks sound like beats Jay would choose to rap over, which in my opinion isn't a good thing as more often than not I'm not a fan of his beat selection. It also gets poppier and weaker with 'On My Own' and 'We Get Around'. 'Life' and 'Full Effect' get the ball rolling again, with the latter being an eerie, darkly produced track, and the next song 'Turn Out the Lights (Freewest)', is one of two songs produced by Kanye and isn't bad either. One of the strongest run of tracks then occurs near the album's conclusion with 'You Don't Know' to 'Hear the Song' being standout cuts. The final two songs, particularly 'You Got Me' aren't worth typing much about. There are some good songs here, with some good beats and a unique rapper spitting over them. At the same time, I've never thought that this was a very consistent record, with there being too many slow moments to rank it highly. Best Tracks: All My Life, Full Effect, You Don't Know (In the Ghetto), Alright. Hear the Song