Clipse - Fast Life

Take two of the most talented rappers in Hip-Hop who, feeling shunned by the prodigious talent that gave them what may be the best album of 2006, tag Scott 'Why the fuck did I waste all my money' Storch to produce their big street single and what you get is Fast Life, a tacky affair in which Storch proves once again that he learned absolutely nothing under Dre. The beat, yet another cheesy take on the cheap-means-simple ethos so many producers seem to ascribe to, totters along with all the imagination of, well, a Scott Storch beat. You'd think after spending so much time under ?uestlove and Dre, the two biggest perfectionists in Hip-Hop, he'd learn to mix a nice-sounding drum track every now and then. It's not so much that Pusha and Malice themselves are the problem here. It's not like they're risking the alienation of fans by rapping about anything other than coke. I'm just disappointed that their musical future without The Neptunes seems doomed to D-Block status.

Swing and a fucking miss.