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Review: I hope Ra got beaucoup dollars for this joint,'cause if he keeps puttin' out weak material like this, he's gonna end up workin' at the post office, talkin' about how he used to be the nicest MC to bless a mic.....Now don't get me wrong...there's plenty of weaker material out there, (see: New School-Puff Daddy, Old School-Audio Two) but Rakim obviously has no concept of musical mastery whatsoever. The beats are bubbly, the baselines are watered down, and the hooks are just plain corny. With a solid production team, and a voice of reason Ra should be turnin' out the nicest album of the year on the regular.All this from a man who regularly argued that Ra was the nicest, back when Big Daddy Kane and KRS were his only comp.One word for this album........Ra-ton.
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