From the beginning, the beats are a bit of a let down on this album. 'New York' improves it slightly and features some excellent rapping, and then 'Can't Stop' steps it up again being a really strong track. However, then it slips back down. A couple of songs later 'Street Life' features a nice violin loop and gets the ball rolling again with 'The Come Up' featuring DJ Premier production. It isn't fantastic but it's a solid beat. 'Envious' is forgettable and then 'A.W.O.L.' features a 'Wildflower' sample that has been used on a number of hip hop songs before such as 'Unexplained' by Gravediggaz and Cassidy's 'On the Grind'. Fairly consistent I guess, but a few beats could've been better. Best Tracks: New York, Can't Stop, Street Life, Bedtime Story, The Come Up, A.W.O.L.

The Format isn't great from start to finish, (not many albums are anymore) but there are some great tracks here such as 'The Format', 'The Animal' and 'Sit Em Back Slow'. His rapping talent is outstanding especially on the tracks mentioned which is nothing new. He's still one the better rappers to do it. I like this a fair bit more than his last album, so if you like that you should definitely like this. Overall the few tracks I love go a large way to earning it its 3.5/5, the rest of them like 'Make Me', 'Get High' and 'Game of Life' are all good though also which make for a fairly solid album. Also, I just wanna say track 10, 'The Format' is one of my favourite if not my favourite AZ track, great production from Premo. It's AZ's 'Nas Is Like'. Best Tracks: Sit Em Back Slow, I Am the Truth, Animal, The Format

So bad it's good.....at least for a little while anyway. This is proof as to why it helps to have a vast vocabulary as a rapper.

There are a lot of songs to get your head around, particularly with the 30 track deluxe edition, but it scores points for originality. Some of these beats sound fairly fresh and Busta has always been a unique rapper. It's a project that has been in the making for quite some time and is his best project for well over a decade since 'The Big Bang' from '06. While there are some trap rap themes, unlike his last few efforts, he seems more at home here. I'll repeat myself again though, why do artists put long speeches/skits on the head or the tail of a song? Make it a different god damn track! Best Tracks: Satanic, Czar (Remix), Look Over Your Shoulder

There are some nice songs in the middle of this mixtape (Lost - This Way), but after a couple of spins, most of the rest is fairly forgettable. Another 15 tracks in such a short space of time was probably a stretch. Hopefully, the upcoming album will have some more conscious stuff though such as 'The Kill' and 'Lost' that he has released in the last week that I've enjoyed. Best Tracks: Lost, I'm Home, This Way