More bongomania with Nas, leaving cloppity hoofprints on your face. He should get a free pass at the All U Can Eat spaghetti western buffet. As with "Made You Look," it's Salaam Remi on the beat. Viner's bongos sound like they were recorded in a Hindenburg hangar, like that Paul's Boutique joint about looking down the barrel of a gun, sonofagun, sonofabitch etc. But I think somebody robs an oil rig. Both Nas and AZ try a different flow, and at times they both stumble over it and lose a shoe to the alligators. Sockless slip-on. For the most part they're in the pocket though and it really comes off. The hyena horns are pretty crazy and Remi knows a good buckskin stab when he hears one. The flip-side is just AZ over gun shots(2). Look, nobody's going to ever outgunshot Money Boss Players "Gunplay." Maybe someone should program a silencer's puft (pooft! pooft!) into pulse dial 16th notes. For some thickening. Just an idea.

reviewed by Dave Tompkins