Ja Rule doesn't stop singing on new album

When is this man going to stop singing? His fans have been begging him to go back to the hardcore, street rap style on "The Last Temptation" that was used on his first album, "Venni Vetti Vecci." However, even after promising to come hard on this album, he obviously greatly failed to do so. After a couple of tracks of hearing Ja with his deep, gruff voice trying to be an R&B singer, it hurts your ears! Is this even music? It sounds more like one of the rejects you would see coming out of an American Idol tryout.

Ja Rule is an above average rapper. He has put out hits that thrilled listeners before, but now he has gone too far. Luckily, the whole album isn't full of singing by Ja, just full of more blunders in the creation of the album. The first single, "Thug Lovin'" features Bobby Brown, an interesting character who probably had just enough time to make this song between jail stints. At the end of the song, Ja screams "This is what we building here, classic s***." What, is he joking? "The Pledge" remix is a track that features Nas and is just a painful reminder of his unwise choice to join Ja Rule's clique Murder Inc. On "Murder Me," it sounds like Ja tried to steal the beat from "Midnight Love" on BET, but came up short as it sounds like a watered down version. Even worse, on the guitar-ridden track "Rock Star," Ja sings "I'm a rock star baby, if they could only read my mind." Someone please tell us what is on his mind to put out such garbage.

Maybe since he called the album "The Last Temptation," he thought he was one of the Temptations? This writer had to shut the song off after the first minute and a half. He tries to sing back and forth with Ashanti on "Mesmerize," but is easily outdone by even her sub-par, studio-made singing voice. A track that actually had potential on this album was the thirteenth track; the outro! It has Ja spitting some mean lyrics over a tight beat, but unfortunately it only lasts for two minutes. Ja Rule just can't win on this album. After hearing him say "What up Gotti," a shout-out to his producer and leader of Murder Inc., for about the 25th time by the fourth track, it was hard to keep listening except for the sake of writing this review. Even his attempts to diss DMX came off sounding whack on this album and certainly won't be taken seriously. Now this review may be a little biased ... the score given to the album was too HIGH! Extra points were added for the simple fact that he made a smart move by letting super-producers The Neptunes make "Pop N****s."