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2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Nas - QB Finest Apr 08, 2006
The concept behind Nas "QB Finest" (2000) was a good one. Combine some of Queensbridge established MCs and represent Queensbridge. After a lame Jungle & Wiz intro, Nas, Capone, Mobb Deep, Tragedy Khadafi, Nature, MC Shan, Marley Marl, Cormega & Millennium Thug do a remake track with "Da Bridge 2001" backed by a forgettable beat. Two average tracks follow then Nas provides a standout track on solo with "Find Your Wealth", rhyming and providing his own chorus backed by a solid beat. Jungle, Cormega & Poet rep their hood on "Straight Outta Q.B.". The albums single's follows, as the Bravehearts provide "Oochie Walley", this track is abysmal, simply horrible and I have no clue as to how anyone would think of this as single quality. CNN & Iman Thug then drop an ignorant track with "Our Way". Advocating driving drunk and Nore dissing Jordan (But Buying his shoes) make this one skip material (even for a CNN fan). Nature rhymes over a boring beat on "Fire", and Prodigy rhymes are lackluster on "Power Rap" (Freestyle Interlude). Nas collaborations with Pop on "Street Glory" and Prodigy with "Self Conscience" are on point. The Infamous Mobb provide the albums best banger with the grimy "Die 4". Nas, Bravehearts & Millennium Thug put some heart on "Kids In Da PJ's" a track for kids growing up poor in the ghetto. Nas & Millenium Thug then deliver the albums closer with the stellar "Teenage Thug". Production on this release is not impressive. Very few of the albums beats are beyond average. The main issue I have with this release is I don't feel like the MC's gave it their all. Maybe most of them were to busy focusing on their solo albums and saving their quality material for those. Nas is one of my favorite MC's I felt his own rhyming contributions were on point, this project though could have been handled a lot better. 2.5.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Classic Queensbridge compilation put out by Nas Jun 13, 2005
Nas putting this out with a lot of QB artists (some of whom he was feuding with at the time) took some ba!!$ and for some reason a lot of people hate on this like they did "The Firm" (another great album). Don't expect to be getting a Nas album with this (he is on 7 of the 16 songs but only has 1 solo. Some of the finest rappers from QB make appearance on this and not many were left out (3 of the 4 members of Screwball and a few from Tragedy's 25 II Life crew most notably). Of the 16 songs, all are good, great or a classic (actually has 3 and a good amount that are close). Production is great (it lacks on a few tracks) LES does 7, Havoc & Infinite Arkatecz each do 2, ALCHemist, Scott Storch, EZ Elpee, Al West and Plain Truth all do 1 track. Make sure you get the version that has "Da Bridge 2001" on it, not all of them do. A must have album for QB rap fans, as is the "41st Side" compilation album.
#2 - 9.5 (Nas, Capone, Mobb Deep, Cormega, MC Shan, Nature, Cormega, Tragedy Khadafi, Millenium Thug (NaShawn) -- good beat Nas gets on Memphis Bleek on this one)
#3 - 9 (Havoc, Big Noyd, Shante -- great beat)
#4 - 8.5 (Nas, Ruc)
#5 - 9 (Nas)
#6 - 9.5 (Cormega, Jungle of the Braveheats, and Poet of Screwball who kicks a great verse -- good sample beat)
#7 - 8 (Braveheats (Horse, Jungle, Wiz -- I liked it before it got WAY overplayed)
#8 - 10 (CLASSIC -- Capone, Noreaga, Iman Thug -- great beat and hook -- they all kick fire verses)
#9 - 8 (Nature)
#10 - 9 (Prodigy)
#11 - 8.5 (Nas, Pop {Blitz})
#12 - 9 (Littles, Craig G, Lord Black, Chaos)
#13 - 9.5 (Mr. Challish -- great beat)
#14 - 10 (CLASSIC deep song with Prodigy & Nas)
#15 - 10 (Classic gangsta song by Infamous Mobb (Ty Knitty, GOD Pt. 3, Twin Gambino)
#16 - 8.5 (Nas, Millenium Thug (Nashawn)& Horse & Wiz of Braveheats)
#17 - 8 (Nas & Millenium Thug (Nashawn)
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0 of 2 found the following review helpful:
alright Aug 30, 2004
i give it 3.5 stars, that makes it a good album, but not hot. The intro should hype you up, even though they missed out on a lot of 'hoods. I agree with the other reviewers, the beats aren't great, except for "oochie wally" and "street glory". Those two are bangers....period!!!!.
All in all, I think we should focus on lyrics, cuz that's what all QB cats bring to the table. Production and dynamics are more of a West-coast thing.
2 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Outstanding Ovation for Nasir J. Feb 21, 2004
This Album without a doubt is Classic. You can't expect an artist to top his first albumz, its simply a rarity. I'm going to say this because this album deserves a huge amount of respect, it was better then illmatic. Illmatic is without a doubt his best album, but "It was written" had an updtated beat (every track from "I gave you power" to "live Ni**a rap")And Its not fair to say that its Nas' weak album. When he came out with this album (it was written) every track seemed to flow together, I never have to skip a track when I put in this cd. You can put it in from the first track all the way to the last and there because there is a specific type of style that is imbued when one plays all the tracks in chronicle order.
0 of 3 found the following review helpful:
c'mon Dec 28, 2003
I would give this 3.5 but ....Im a qb fan but they could of done better for this cuz i spent 13.99 on this . I like nas , ive got all his records , but yeah this was a bit disapointing .Every artist on this album is invidually good no doubt nas ,mobb deep , noreaga ect. But this record could of been improved in various ways , like better tunes on some of the songs .But there are good tracks on this album.Maybe id start to like this later on .The album takes time grow.
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