This compilation / bootleg / remix album released under Corleone Recordings it's a weird mix of things. "Archives" to try to keep the memory of Big L alive. Maybe we don't need efforts so convoluted, in short, there's still no decent compilation of the best songs pulled out by Big L in his two official studio albums.
This thing, whatever it's, doesn't go near it. He shuffles his tunes to try to confuse you and it's not going too well. "Games Females Play" and "Hit It" don't work too well for Coleman, despite the great rhythms — boom bap dark jazzy light and "Can I Kick It?" of ATCQ respectively — because it doesn't sound fit with these sexual cuts.
A similar argument can be made for "We Got This" which comes after someone tries to overtake Premier in the "Platinum Plus" remix (good luck!): regular freestyle on a jazzy boom bap that doesn't really fit the cause of Big L, he doesn't sound very fit, but that's ok, a good track, maybe the worst of the whole compilation, unfortunately.
There's a decent cut with Shyheim before "Deadly Combination" we also add Biggie to an iper-hyped track that incredibly works, yet. [Seems like a lucky attempt, though]. Roc Raida hits the target with an excellent sick jazzy boom bap in "On the Mic", scratching the hook while Big L flows smoothly over this disorientating, dystopian, excellent production. Hi-Tek takes out a jazzy/soulful boom bap, even here Big L is pretty fit.
To close this tape there are an unnecessary remix of "Ebonics" by T-Rex, a necessary remix by Buckwild that significantly improves the rhythm chosen by Pete Rock for "Who You Slidin' With" from "The Big Picture" and two acapella tracks that I don't know why they're here, probably to disorient the listener and make him feel an unprecedented hatred for... almost a minute, but there are, so...
It's a weird mix of things, I think it's the most appropriate definition for this "collection of songs". Some work, others simply do not. "Now or Never" is one of the best tracks here. 6.5/10.
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