RAPPER GONE BAD= 4/5...There's a couple of tracks that I wasn't feelin' ("Fast Money", "How Yo Hood"), but the rest are cool. "I've Been Down", "Rapper Gone Bad", "Fish Head Stew", "Forty-two Fake", "Fire", "Valley Joe" and "I'm A Thug" are the ones I feel the most.
It doesn't quite go far enough to be a classic, but it's still well worth getting. And yeah, even when the production isn't up to par, MAC DRE still can spit, even on his most recent stuff (i.e., IT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAY and THIZELLE WASHINGTON--it's really just the engineering and sound that I didn't like on THIZELLE--if you get past that, which I eventually did, there's some fun songs there). PEACE!