This was one of the first R&B albums I bought largely due to the hit single 'Let Me Love You' which was to my liking. Having heard his debut album since I think this is a huge step up in quality, features more of a mix of upbeat R&B (about 30%) and is just much more enjoyable overall. Not everything works, but it has a pretty good success rate and there are enough tracks with replay value. Best Tracks: Let Me Love You, Couldn't Say No, How Could You, Here I Go Again, Nikes Fresh Out the Box, Let Me Love You (Remix)

A handful of good tracks, including the extremely catchy title track that most would know of. However, while the rest are mostly solid R&B tunes, they don't reach any great heights. Overall, it's very mid 90's with some g-funk and new jack swing influence behind the crooning and occasional rapping from Montell. While listening to it I can't help but feel a strong '12 Play' influence. Best Tracks: Somethin' 4 da Honeyz, This Is How We Do It, Down on My Knees, Gotta Get My Roll On, Close the Door.

A few of these songs are too sample-heavy. This may be hypocritical given other songs I love, and a stupid statement given that sampling is one of the prominent aspects of hip hop, but the kind of criticism that was directed towards Puffy's 'I'll Be Missing You' can be directed at 'Ready or Not', 'No Woman No Cry' and Killing Me Softly'. On the latter, I remember really liking it back in the day, but spinning this album today, it fails by comparison to most of the other songs here. Except for that, 'No Woman, No Cry' is too unoriginal to rank it very highly, and the remixes don't come very close to matching the original. The rest of this though is either great or very good, with three distinctive members making up this group. I wish the brilliant 'Manifest' would have been its own individual track though. 4-3.5. Best Tracks: How Many Mics, Zealots, The Beast, Fu-Gee-La, The Score, Manifest

This starts off fairly well with most tracks from two to eight being good and a few being close to excellent. However, after that, while you will still find some enjoyment the beats become less thrilling and not much stands out after that. It ain't just because they ain't brilliant though I feel too many tracks have the same sort of sound and it all sort of blends in together. Another thing about the second half of the album is that there are too many featuring artists. Most of the featuring verses are pretty good and raw particularly on 'Post Traumatic Warlab Stress' and 'Ripperland' (some aren't too good though) but if I'm listening to a new Canibus album I wanna hear Canibus most of the time and he goes missing in the last half a dozen or so songs. As another user has mentioned lyrically it is dumbed down a bit from what we have seen in the past which is good and bad. Even if I could never understand what the hell he was rapping about I could still enjoy the track and it made Canibus stand out even more from other artists. He is still lyrical though just not at the vocabulary level we have seen in the past. Overall, if you're a fan of Bis check it out as you should find something but I wouldn't rank it near his best - 'Rip The Jacker'. Best Tracks: Kriminal Kindness, Hip-Hop Black Ops, The Dragon of Judah

I like Bis and don't think his beat selection is as bad as people claim it to be when you look at his whole career, but that criticism can definitely be used here. Average repetitive beats with too many long excerpts from speeches and the like woven in. They're even used in some of the hooks. There is a lot in the lyrics, like with Lupe these days, but crafting catchy songs is the issue here, often like Lupe as well. Hopefully, he is saving his best for the long-awaited 'Rip the Jacker II'. Best Tracks: Pay Me in Gold