Well, Cuban's on his own now, no longer associated with Fat Joe and terror Squad, he's a "man of business" under a new label, still reppin' Big Pun, of course, you can't come out and not mention one of the all time greats that happened to be one of your boys that passed on. Not that any of this matters in huge senses of the word, but I find it interesting.

Cuban Link's got a pretty smooth flow, a rough voice, the beats are fairly similar to that old TS shit, sounds almost like a Pun album, but not. Honestly, I knew the name Cuban Link from those old Pun albums, just cuz Pun would mention him, but I never matched up the voice to the name. I think I thought Cuban was Triple Seis, or one of those other guys.

Anyway, that's a little irrelevant, cuz Cuban's time has come to take center stage, at least in his own backyard, er, record studio, shiz, whatever. Not sure if this is his debut album, thought he was at least slated to have another one? Guess it never happened. What a surprise, an announced rap album that never came to be? Master P would be shocked. Good for Cuban, though, for finally getting' his shit pressed.

Aye, the flows are entangling upon one another. Okey doke. Cuban's got a nice flow, he can wreck shop on the mike mos def. This album is nice, it gets the job done. I'm not saying that he's reinventing the wheel or anything, like I said, it's very reminiscent, at least to me, of earlier terror squad efforts, which is by no means a bad thing, in my eye.

I don't think I'm the first to say this, but he does sound like Tupac a little bit. His voice is a good deal more gravelly, and the cadence is different, I don't think he's necessarily biting, but the voice is similar. Take this with a grain of salt as there are about a million rappers that sound like tupac as well. I wouldn't even mention it if I hadn't checked the track list a couple times to see if there was a beyond the grave guest shot. To give Cuban credit, he's nowhere near C-Murder or Jah-Rule level in his Killuminati larceny, and I honestly think it's to a large degree incidental.