The 1st thing you'll notice about Khaled's latest effort (besides the lame-ass cover) is that his new album doesn't feel like an album at all. To be precise, it has an identity crisis: 10 tracks - ok, 12 if you count the intro and the following skit (was following the intro with a skit really necessary?) - don't make for an album nowadays (especially for a DJ that doesn't produce on his own album or even attempts to rap on it), yet it feels hi-tech enough to not be considered a mixtape. Oh well, can't hate if the content is good, right?
Right?
For the trunk, it is. Well, most of it actually. We Takin Over still proves to be a great banger, and Brown Paper Bag is a nice follow up (thank The Snowman and Weezy for that). After that, it goes downhill. The production remains quality stuff - even though it slighty falls- during the "album" (no thanks to Khaled, since his lazy ass only produced the Intro), but the features themselves get relatively worse. For every ill Sigel or Jada verse, we get lots of filler Weezy/Paul Wall/(insert florida rapper) content...but it wouldn't matter much, if it wasn't for the fact that the 1st 2 tracks easily outshine the others, so much that you rather bump them instead of the whole abum. And Khaled's own contributions to his album drag it down even more, he just sits and shouts "we the best" and other crap over and over with his ear-splitting voice at the beginning and end of each track....by the 7th song, it becomes unbearable.
To give We The Best some credit, Originators and Before The Solution are nice, if a lil out-of-place, tracks. Like I said before, it's perfect for hitting the road if you ever get bored of the album's singles...but, chances are that, when you do, Drama will most likely drop the Gangsta Grillz album. Save your money for Drama instead.
Rating: 5.5/10
Def look out for: We Takin Over, Brown Paper Bag, Before The Solution, The Originators
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