Title: Shockingly sub-par lyricism
Product review: I loved this album as a pre-teen in the early noughties, but it doesn't hold up. He calls himself CL the 'sextified', over and over - and that sums up the tone of this album. I don't know what happened but C.L. smooth fell off so hard on this album. He's just sex-obsessed on this, it makes most of the tracks awkward and unlistenable and off-putting. He's trying to play an LL Cool J ladies-man role, and it is just not working at all. And that's a damn shame because this is some of Pete Rock's best production (that is, when he doesn't simply xerox the samples from Donald Byrd) perhaps some of the best production of the era period. If only there were someone else on the mic riding these beats, this record would be mentioned alongside Illmatic and Ready to Die as the genre's most beloved classics.
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