SHAZAM

The "13 new songs" on Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's T.H.U.G.S. will for the most part be familiar to Bone-loving message-board trollers and Internet traders, although the beats changed somewhere along the way from leak to official release. Most everything seems to come from 2003 or so, two years before unpredictable member Bizzy was dismissed from the group. Although there's an overall feeling that the music is unfinished, or maybe even finished years later by someone outside the Bone organization, hearing Bizzy's free-form rhyming and strange delivery during this turbulent time is interesting, and a handful of cuts feature memorable lyrics and/or that prime Bone interplay. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi