The production on this album is pretty good, I must admit, but coupled with the lackluster performances of most of the artists, it takes the album doesn't reach its potential. I don't really believe a lot of people expected a lot of lyrical originality from this album. Let's be honest. With the exception of Wayne, Drake, and Nikki, Young Money is a label full of mediocre rappers, and I do mean "rappers", not "artists". There is a difference. And the fore mentioned "artists" are the only ones that are strong enough to stand alone in the industry, as solo artists. How is anyone with a respectable IQ supposed to take you seriously? They were too afraid to stray away from the cookie cutter cliché rap album: formula (money, sex, guns, and drugs). It's so old. I can't even call this an album. An album would have a theme, a story, a central message. This is just a bunch of songs on a CD. 2 stars are very generous. 

PS: It's ok to disagree with me because everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but If you must post a reply, don't leave a short, inarticulate, response like, "This is fye", or "Why you hatin". It only shows how truly stupid you are and you should not be allowed on the internet. Any monkey with a computer could do that. Make you point. Back it up with facts. 

This Young Money album is, simply put, a disaster. For one, Young Money has too many group members and they are not the Wu-Tang Clan or the Dungeon Family in terms of talent. These rappers all sound like each other. Jae Millz, Gudda Gudda, Mack Maine, Tyga, T-Streets, Lil Chuckee, Lil Twist are not very distinct. Not saying that they can't rap, just that they aren't interesting stylistically in flow or lyrics. They have no mic presence, especially not enough to hog up all the tracks. And even if they happen to have their tracks...at least have their good tracks. Gudda Gudda has a full mixtape full of bangers as does Tyga (to a lesser extent). I've heard way better songs from Jae Millz and Mack Maine as well. 

The rappers that you would expect to hear from such as Nicki Minaj and Drake are barely on the album. Each of them clock 5 songs on a 15 song album. This is unacceptable. I didn't hear Nicki Minaj until the album was halfway over!!! The singer Shanell gets no shine. She might be on two tracks. I'm trying to see if they thought this all the way through. Lil Wayne is on every song but it's mostly chorus work and when he does rap he sounds completely uninspired. Drake raps last on the tracks he's on in an attempt to "bring it home" but by the time he raps you've probably already skipped the track. 

The beats are decent but very "run of the mill" at best and there's no concept behind the songs. There's some old songs here. Every Girl and Play In My Band came out in March and Steady Mobbin with Gucci Mane came out in July. 

I believe with albums like these, basically a talent showcase for the label, that the people everyone knows should be on every track with the complimentary rappers and singers strategically placed on tracks. This helps give them an identity rather than throwing all these rappers on tracks and then the listener has to try to decipher who is who and which style is who and how their voice sounds etc. Not to mention the album cover is wack. I'm very disappointed in this album and I was not entertained. There's a few songs (Every Girl, Bedrock, Steady Mobbin, Roger That, Finale, Play In My Band and Streets Is Watching) but you aren't missing anything classic by completely skipping this album. 


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