I am currently traveling and will have to update this later to be more thorough. Short version though, this is one of the albums that I used to listen to on repeat when I was in my “old school” phase. I ended up liking Naughty By Nature and 19 Naughty III better as albums, but this was my first Naughty By Nature album so I probably heard it more than those two combined. I mention this because I know I have some bias towards loving this album. That said, probably hadn’t listened to this in 10 years when I checked it out during my drive this weekend to prep for this week. I was pleased with how well it holds up, despite sounding very much of the mid 90s. I don’t know how something can sound so solidly “90s” and still not sound dated in 2023 but I feel that way about this album personally.

My favorite song is probably Craziest, though my wife hates it with a passion. Second favorite would be Klickow-Klickow. Least favorite song is probably Slang Bang, though I still like it. Something just has to be the worst, even if it is still good overall… Special shout out to the skits on this album. They were pretty standard in this era and I skip them on a lot of albums but not here. Special “why does this exist” to the track Shout Out because it sucks. I listened to this album 3 times this weekend and I didn’t want to skip tracks on principle, but this shit does not need to be here. I don’t call it my least favorite song because it barely qualifies as a song. I specifically remember leaving this track off when I burned myself a CD of this album as a teenager.

Before giving this a listen the only song I had heard from Naughty by Nature was O.P.P. I’m really glad I gave this a listen. This is right up my alley when it comes to old school hip hop. I love the constant onslaught of rhymes over the old school funky beats.

A lot of good songs here but I’ll highlight City of Ci-Lo and Klickow-Klickow specifically for the beats. Both have a more dissonant sound which I really like.

I wasn’t a fan of a few of the cheesier choruses. Especially Slang Bang. That one got a little annoying. But I get that their just trying to grab people’s attention with some of those.

Shout Out felt like it didn’t belong but I appreciate what they were trying to do there. I can’t complain too much about it since they still put out nearly an hour of rapping if you skip that one.

Overall a great album and I plan to check out more of their work now.

Unrelated to this weeks album, who has suggestions for our October 31st thread? I wanted something horror-core to fit with Halloween, but I’ve never been in to that sub-genre of Hip Hop really. Or if anybody has a Halloween theme album that is legitimately good. Let me know. I don’t want to just look up “best horror-core rap albums” though I can do that too if nobody has any suggestions.