"This how hip hop is supposed to sound, Tear them other cats' posters down" I'd never heard anything from Masta Ace before this, and I was more than happily surprised with the outcome when I first listened to this many year ago. I've revisited this in '24 and have dropped the rating a touch from a light 4.5/5 to a high 4/5 though. While the best, particularly 'Good Ol Love' and 'Beautiful' never get old, the opener, 'Big City', and tracks towards the end like 'Wutuwankno' and 'OMYGOD!' make the album drop off in quality, and the final third doesn't match the opening of the album. It's a clever concept album but the skits do get annoying too, although you feel the concept being told fairly well which you don't always get with a concept album. Beats: ★★★★ Rapping/Bars: ★★★★ Hooks: ★★★★ Best Tracks: Good Ol Love, Beautiful, Soda & Soap, Bklyn Masala

Disc 1 starts off well. The first couple of tracks bang and you have the great 'Man Cry' by Z-Ro. Scarface goes missing from tracks 8-10 and isn't featured on some tracks. From there though, it never matches the opening. Disc 2 follows a similar pattern with Face again not being featured a lot in parts. Some of the production sounds quite mid '00s and isn't strong. There is a verse on 'Too Much' that sounds like it was recorded on a $50 microphone. Bun B saves the following 'What It Do'. There's a remix of Common's classic 'The Corner' from 'Be' and the album finishes with an above decent solo Trae Tha Truth song. D1 Best Tracks: Definition of Real, Never Snitch, Man Cry, Gotta Get Paid, My Life D2 Best Tracks: Gangsta, What It Do, Never Snitch (Original), The Corner (Remix), Problems Overall, there is production and songs that Scarface wouldn't let on a normal Face album. There are some interesting musical choices. On 'We Out Here' there is yodeling and on 'Twinkle Twinkle' part of 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star' is spat for the hook. When Face goes missing you can tell and not surprisingly the best moments are when his voice is heard. This is proven as 'Never Snitch' is better than the remix with Beanie and Game. 'Pass the Itchy' is probably the only average Scarface moment. There are some moments to go back to, but there are more songs here without replay value. Beats: ★★★ Rapping/Bars: ★★★ Hooks: ★★★

For a movie only 110 minutes long, this felt like somewhat of a slug to get through. The action scenes are decent, but at the same time aren't doing anything too amazing to stand out from the millions of other action movies. Eckhart's partner is pretty useless. The villain does some nonsensical things like he is asking to be caught. 2-2.5/5.

This is fairly boring from my point of view. It was made in a short space of time as The Game posted on IG - "I pulled on @hitboy & @bighit 3 days ago to do 1 song… stayed a few hours & ended up doing a 9 song tape that night" - and it feels that way. As a rapper, The Game pretty much has nothing engaging left to say, much of this is just generic gangsta rap, and the production isn't Hit-Boy's best. One positive is that Game and Hit do trade bars at times. Too often with collaboration albums it's just one rapper for a whole verse and that feeling of true collaboration is lost.. Overall, it's alright in parts but it doesn't get me excited at all. Beats: ★★☆ Rapping/Bars: ★★☆ Hooks: ★☆ Best Tracks: Backfade, Bang Freestyle, Body for Body

"bigotry" "an hour promoting transphobia" I really wonder if these people actually watch these things or just review and rate off headlines. He makes a couple of trans jokes as a middle-finger to those who cried about them last time, and it's "an hour promoting transphobia". Okay... Dave is still an amazing storyteller. He hooks you in like few, if any, other comedians. One of the early punchlines where he said something like 'that's what trans people make me feel like' caught me by surprise and was one for the books. His take on the Will Smith/Chris Rock incident was interesting as well. Some of the jokes about his relationship with his wife worked well also. However, kind of like what I said about Ricky Gervais' latest special, we need some more originality, and more so specifically to Dave, more humour than stories.