All Money Is Legal - Amil

Advantages: Some of Jay-Z's contributions, Some Listenable Material, Improvement over last 2 albums..
Disadvantages: Rocafella Records is putrid pile of waste

...", Jay-Z raps about putting money over women, which is his "script". Poor subject matter, production, and subject matter pretty much sends this track to its grave. On "You, Me, Him, Her", everybody from Rocafella Records appears here, including Amil, which is horrible to me. Beanie, Jay, Memphis, and Amil rap commercialistic thug rhymes, mixed with a club vibe. Terrible, Terrible song... Jay-Z redeems himself with "Guilty Until Proven Innocent". Jay-Z gets R. Kelly to back him up with vocals on this one. Strangely enough, Jay-Z's production has more of a club vibe on this track, but his lyrics dont match whatsoever with the beat. Jay-Z raps extremely good subject matter about the incident which had recently occured at the time where Jay-Z was blamed for stabbing Lance "Un" Rivera for bootlegging his album. Jay-Z basically tries to explain... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Lots of good lyrics
Disadvantages: um... not the best he has made

...Jay Z is wicked, I love this album, although it is not his best! I saw him at the Urban Music Festival, and he was belting out most of my favourite tunes! He was the star of the day. I don't know one person that did not get up to dance! He was soooooo cool, i'm never going to forget that night! Every person was screaming hova at him.. it was just such a hype! And I really don't want him to quit the industry! The tracks in this album are: Tracks: --1: Intro-Hand It Down - (featuring Memphis Bleek) --2: Hard Knock Life - (Ghetto Anthem) --3: If I Should Die - (featuring Da Ranjahz) --4: Ride Or Die --5: N***a What, N***a Who (Originator 99) - (featuring Big Jaz) --6: Money, Cash, H**s - (featuring DMX) --7: Week Ago, A - (featuring Too Short) --8: Coming Of Age (Da Sequel) - (featuring Memphis Bleek) --9: Can I Get A... - (featuring Amil... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Three Decent Songs
Disadvantages: The Rest

.... Everything's Everything f/ Joe (**) 8. That's Real f/ Beanie Sigel (*) 9. What Ya'll N*ggas Want f/ Foxy Brown (*) 10. Let's Toast (*) 11. How Many Wanna f/ Amil (*) 12. Love Me (***) 13. Quiet Money f/ T.B.S. (*) 14. Outro (NOT RATED) AZ starts 9 Lives on the right track, apologizing for his recent gangsta mentality and The Firm album. AZ busts a short freestyle with relatively good lyrics, but the production is sort of annoying, with screeching violins not matching AZ's vocals whatsoever. But the vocals are respectable enough. "Intro" goes right into "What Cha Day About", which is one of the album's highlights, and most likely the best song on the album. AZ returns to a mentality that he owned on Doe or Die, which is pure street-poetry. AZ gives us some vivid and complex street lyricism to match this narratives, loaded... Read review

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