This is an often overlooked album in Cube's catalog. One legitimate criticism of the album is that it imitated the sound of Dre's Chronic album. I can see where that comes from, but Cube certainly still brings his signature flow and content to the music. "You Know How We Do It" was a great laid back joint to ride to and getting George Clinton on Bop Gun [One Nation] was amazing. "Ghetto Bird" was good. And B-Real's cameo in the "Really Doe" video was great too. Overall, the album is descent. But hip-hop was changing at the time, the profoundness of Cube's west coast street knowledge was now taking a back seat to the revival of east coast rap (e.g. Wu-Tang, Nas, Biggie). Almost 19 years later, the album still holds up though.
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