The Best of Both Worlds Review

The pitch was obvious and the execution was not. Two artists at the peak of their commercial power, recording largely apart, trading verses and hooks over beats neither seemed invested in. Take You Home with Me and Get This Money have functional grooves and nothing else, and the promotion collapsed almost immediately when criminal allegations against the singer became public weeks before release.

Judged purely as music it is a lazy album: the rapping is on autopilot, the hooks are recycled from better songs by the same man, and there is no chemistry at all between two voices that barely shared a room. It is also, unavoidably, a record with a convicted serial abuser on half of it, which has removed it from circulation entirely and will keep it there. The vibe grade is the easiest one on this site to award. There is no plausible situation in which anyone puts this on.