This guy hasn't guessed one right thing in the last years. Aiiight, aight. "Just a Friend". All right. He got one right. On how many? Fifty? On this record, Biz watered down his previous songs in an attempt to lengthen them and create new ones, often on the theme of girls, with pretty boring, banal, lame results.
He goes slower than the previous album, and it wasn't easy, the production is to be forgotten, generic, average, realized by himself. Only the samples play his side against everything and everyone: Quincy Jones, Lyn Collins, James Brown, Bill Whiters... Gilbert O'Sullivan... ehhh, he couldn't stick to sampling twenty James Brown songs like everyone else, he must go on alternative samples... Gilbert O'Sullivan, what the?
"Alone Again" is not the first song that Biz "wrong to sample", there was already at least a couple also on the previous album, but this time the author of the original, Gilbert O'Sullivan, decided that it was put an end to it: the author files a lawsuit against Markie and Warner Bros., winning it for copyright infringement. It seems a kind of joke, because the song that Biz realizes from that sample is one of the shortest and it's placed at the end of the disc. Hip hop changes forever, again, the samples will have to be cleaned up and authorization must be requested from the author of the sampled song in order to use it. The party is over.
Biz doesn't give up in any case and even jokes about it with the title of his next album "All Samples Cleared". The disk is released by Cold Chillin' and Warner Bros. and it doesn't sell like the previous effort, peaking #44 in the rnb chart, and being panned by specialized critics, who realize that the album can't move forward decently after the three minutes, sunk by poor and flaccid rap, uninspired music, little imagination and jokes that are a waste of time. 4/10.
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