Sigh. It’s a nice-sounding rap album - what can I say? That Southern sound. Codeine references. Baby and Wayne show up for a track. What is fishscale? Haven’t figured that out. The latest Ghostface album references this also. Is it a drug thing? Someone fill me in. Is a bird now a salmon? I thought the bird ATE the salmon. What the fuck up with that?

It takes about 800 years to get thru the intro. There really should and might soon be a law about long intros. I mean you don’t hear rock groups riffing for 15 minutes about “We’re the dopest, we the flyest,” with the same breakbeat just dropping over and over and over again.

Li'l rant over. I like the first two tracks, the aforementioned Wayne and Baby guest shot: nice beat, flows nice - always liked Wayne’s flow, even though his pubes poppin have dropped the tenor a bit, and Baby’s always funny. "Full Time": nice single, it works. The hook sounds like Eminem but it just can’t be, they’d be advertising that shit to the gills, unless modern 2006 izms is to have the most famous people on your album and tell no one so as to appear underground.

Don’t get me wrong. Yo Gotti’s got something going here. The production is tight. His raps are funky, his oatmeal’s lumpy. I think I’m just jaded and old and it takes something beyond the realm to really knock me out of my psychosis-laced staring at the wall with spittle dripping down my chin; and even then half the time I don’t notice it.

If that ain’t a grain of salt then Betty Crocker can’t make a cake for shit. That’s about the best thing that can be said. You’d think that this was a wherewithal coded and confused endorsement of Yo Gotti and his musical wiles, but honestly, I heartily recommend it. I like it quite a bit. I wanna say it reminds me of Young Bleed, but I have no idea why, they’re quite different; maybe the nonstop rappin that sounds like he doesn’t care even though you know he does.

If there’s a horse’s head in my bed when I wake up with a blank expression and no breath emanating from my frame in the morning, tell Yo Gotti and DJ Drama good job and that Benjamin would be proud.