I received an e-mail on September 14 from Blais, stating that the CDs will be shipped Friday, the 20th and Monday, the 23rd. Basically, he wrote a long e-mail, which stated that he's the only one working on the CDs and they will be shipped out on the dates mentioned.

Apparently, they were not ready, which is strange considering the fact they knew the release date weeks earlier.

This is a good, solid album. Bizzy is pretty much on point throughout, you can tell he put a lot of effort in. The production is solid, well mastered but as already mentioned in this thread, the beats do have a similar sound throughout. It makes for a cohesive listen but at times it sounds like reworkings of the same beat. Loving the piano on St Clair Thug and Runnin From 1 Time, gives me that We Play vibe.

The first 3 tracks make this sound like a vintage Bizzy album to me, great start to the album. While When I Land In Cleveland and FTP are fine, they don't really feel like Bizzy songs. If Bizzy was at least on the hook or had another verse on these songs then it wouldn't feel like I accidentally left my itunes on shuffle and it found some random tracks Bizzy is featured on. The hooks/bridges are too long and take up most of the track times with short verses in between, makes for a repetitive listen and is an issue that comes up numerous times on the album.

Blais sounds good on Unlucky Ones but I would've preferred Bizzy to do the hook. The intro of the song sounds great with Bizzy doing the chorus and just an acoustic guitar in the background but this is still one of my favorite songs on the album, Bizzy's lyrics are brilliant.

Trophies is a weird sounding song to me. The hook sounds corny as fuck "don't fall in love with just money..." that part sounds like some 90's, white girl, pop song melody. "I got the mind of a hustler.." part of the chorus is fine, the verses are fine, not sure I like the "gold digger/trophy wife" subject though, it's not for me. Oh and the bridge "don't fa...don't fa...don't fa..." sounds like he's saying "don't fart." Weird track.

What Eazy Said is great, the first two verses are brilliant but I don't like the fact that the Eazy sample has been taken out and with Krayzie being quoted throughout the hook I start to think that this should've been called "What Krayzie Said." The hook/bridge take too much of the songs time as mentioned before, it's not as bad though because Bizzy has a third verse although it isn't on the same level as his first two verses and is off topic so feels a little unnecessary.

Bizzy sounds great on All We Got Is Each Other, especially that second verse, it's on some AOW shit. However, if any song needed a third verse, it's definitely this one. The hook is almost as long as Bizzy's two short verses and with it being repeated throughout the song, by the end it just feels like this repetitive, chorus-heavy track.

Runnin From 1 Time is great, got nothing bad to say about it. A third verse would've been nice but it's fine as it is, probably my favorite song on the album.

Best tracks:

St Clair Thug
Stoopid
Alpha Mentality
Enigma
Unlucky Ones
Remember What Eazy Said
Runnin From 1 Time

Overall, this is a solid, cohesive effort. It's definitely the best bone related album in a long time. I rank it just after A&O in Bizzy's catalog; The Gift, Heaven'z Movie, A&O, Carbon Monoxide. 7/10

Album of the year contender imo. People don’t have the patience to sit with albums and give them multiple spins before giving it an assessment these days. One of the reasons so many older albums are considered classics is because there wasn’t an oversaturated market where every album was available instantly at the click of a button so we were limited to listening to the albums we owned. How many albums released in recent years can people recite the lyrics too? Not many I bet. Go back 20-25 years and most of us know every lyric to multiple albums.

I thought the same - rather weak song to start off with. That is pretty much the only track I skip over from this album tho (plus the couple of skits). 

Still waiting for the physical- anyone else?

I disagree...classic albums are classics because they’re that good! If anything they just became more solid classics over the decades! Especially since rap started shitting the bed after 2000. All the classics from the golden era were great on the first listen. Pretty much everything you heard on the radio back then was a hit.

If your favorite artist(s) put out an album, and you have to listen to it multiple times to get into it, to me your forcing yourself to like it. Which is fine...I have done it too, but if you have to go that route its for a reason.