More than six months after the publication of the fourth volume, solar's hunger for money never stops, it never stops. Somehow, he convinces Guru to release this thing as well, which takes a whole bunch of different names: "Guru's Jazzmatazz: The Timebomb Back to the Future Mixtape".
This is a mixtape. And it's also part of the Jazzmatazz series. 20 tracks. 55 minutes. solar is the only producer, while DJ Doo Wop interrupts the disc every track. Among the guests, Lord Tariq, Aceyalone, Nature, Mr. Lif, Common and Damian Marley, the latter two inserted in two remixes of the previous album. In fact, this tape was created to "accompany" listening to the last episode of the Guru series. The intro and remixes go well, the two guests continue to outdo the lead rapper, and the remix of "Feed the Hungry" (track from "Version 7.0: The Street Scriptures") also sounds worthy.
Everything else doesn't work: the Boston lyricist sounds less inspired than ever, his bars fall tired and empty on a shoddy and heavily cheap production by solar, that gets everything wrong in building a rhythm. "B-Boy Kamikaze" is the worst and one of the weakest beats provided to Guru: the beat is psychopathic, fusion between dance club and some electro elements stolen from a toaster that is on fire. This dude tries to copy and imitate DJ Premier, with unsuccessful results that are similar to mockeries: in "So What It Do Now?" he stole from Gang Starr's "½ & ½”, and Aceyalone fixes everything there is to fix in the rap side. Nature and Mr. Lif deliver regular over beats of a disturbing ugliness, and are unable to save their songs. This tape is a blemish in his discography, 3/10.
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