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This album sounds like a group of lads having the craic. Yeah I like that aspect of it; even though the gangbanging clichés are there, they also kind of inhabit their own world informed by the Shaw Brothers, as it were. As opposed to their contemporaries in hip-hop cool – Cypress Hill? (Their...

No point doing a track-by-track reaction to this, because it's not that kind of album. I concur with the general opinion on this: the beats are class, but it's a bit too long and samey, and the lyrics don't speak to this Raheny boy. But the meter and flow of the rapping is fantastic. How did we...

Actually I'll qualify that - every CD-era album whatever the genre is X tracks too long. Even some records I love. See also: that hidden track bullshit where the album finishes and there's 20 minutes of silence and then WHAM GET OUT OF MY EARS.

Every CD-era rap album is about X tracks too long.

This is probably, like, the second hip-hop album I've listened to straight through (the first was probably Dr Octagon way back in the day) but hip-hop is in the fabric of pop culture now, we've heard so many of the beats and the voices in chunks and snippets here and there that we don't even...

Agreed, and it's a lot to take in. I'm thinking rap was the first genre to really embrace the CD in terms of making the most of its longer running time compared to vinyl, but that gets you a lot of bloat and padding over 70 minutes with the skits and duff tracks and whatnot. I had to take a...

Language wise, it's all braggadocio, isn't it? Exaggerated tales equivalent to the kind of thing Cannibal Corpse were doing in death metal, but arguably more pernicious since hip-hop went mainstream. But fuck me, the production is great, isn't it? BEATS, man.