This definitely ain't brilliant and I think you would have to have a very vast taste in music to love all of what's on offer here, but there is still some fun to be had as it offers a mix of genres and artists that you rarely see. Since Windows XP days and hearing 'Like Humans Do' I've liked David Byrne's voice so I like the first two tracks, which features some of my favourite rappers, particularly Chuck D. Moving from there 'N.A.S.A. Music' and 'Hip Hop' add to the best tracks from the album list. After that, the hip hop theme that began the album begins to expand a touch and nothing really grabs me again until 'Samba Soul' featuring the great Homosapien, Del tha Funkee. Overall it starts off well, but then this ambitious project begins to fail. I'm still giving it a 2.5 / 5 cause the tracks I like I quite enjoy even if I wouldn't play over half of this again. Best Tracks: Money, N.A.S.A. Music, Hip Hop, Samba Soul, N.A.S.A. Anthem.

Beanie is a passionate, strong rapper and he shows it in everything he does. A lot of the beats here though are standard average early '00s beats. The first half a dozen songs are incredibly generic and you wouldn't think that this was from one of the biggest labels. If you like what Jay had on some of his later Volume albums you may get more out of them. While not incredibly original, the best moments come in the improving second half of the album from songs like 'What Your Life Like' where Beanie talks on more sentimental topics like the terrors of being locked up and 'Die' where he spits about the temptations and ways one's life can be cut short. As much as I love Scarface, that collaboration is disappointing as the beat isn't great. Attached to the end of this is also Jay-Z's solo song 'Anything', which Jay expected to do good things, but almost flat out copying the format of an earlier hit in 'Hard Knock Life' normally doesn't work with the public. I don't like 'Hard Knock Life' and this has an even worse chorus taken from 'I'll Do Anything'. Best Tracks: The Truth, Remember Them Days, What Your Life Like, Ride 4 My, Die.

Good quality uncommercial hip hop and at the moment my rap pick of '09. It reminds me a bit of Prolyphic & Reanimator's 'The Ugly Truth' and something else that I can't recall at the moment. Apart from the odd so-so track, it's one of those beginning to end albums and hasn't been out of my playlist since I got it. A high 4/5. Best Tracks: Stutter Step, Take Me Higher, Speed Demon, Losing You, Deal With It, Hold On, Leader vs. Followers

I just can't mess with most of the rapping on this. Be it Earl or most of the featuring artists who rap with basically the same dull annoying flow. The production's okay, but there is little variation on some of the songs from the verses to the hook at times making it boring. 'The Chum' is one such example, which also features some of the best production on its outro oddly enough.

Except for the obvious 'classics' from the mid-nineties which I mostly enjoy and plenty of ya'll love, I've never dug much from the Wu as a group or from solo albums from members of the Clan. So whatever I got from listening to this album I would have been happy with. There were no expectations. What I found I was pretty happy with. The remixes are poor and so are a couple of the normal tracks like 'Rims Pokin Out' but there is stuff to enjoy. The first three songs are all very good with replay value. 'Lipton' is enjoyable also...until the chorus which ruins the song. Tracks five and six aren't as good as the first three songs but are still to my liking. 'Hips' is one you will probably skip and then you have two bangin' tracks in 'Wu-Tang' and 'Dopium'. Then before the remixes begin, you have 'Classic' which is okay but nothing special. And I'll just add that the off beat "classic, classic, classic" in the chorus doesn't add to the track at all. He would've been better off just letting the beat roll. A quick point on the bonus track remixes; They get worse as they go on. 'Stomp da Roach (Remix)' is okay, 'Dopium (Remix)' is bad and 'Hips (Remix)' is very bad. I guess if you like electronic music mixed with hip hop maybe you could get something out of them but I'm guessing most fans wouldn't. On the whole, there is some rubbish here, mainly the remixes, but they have been given the tag of 'bonus track' so when critiquing you are probably not meant to include them in your rating. The rest of the tracks though are ones I mainly enjoy, which earn Dopium a comfortable 3/5. Best Tracks: God is Love, Train Trussle, Stomp da Roach, Dopium, Coke