"Here We Go" by Khadejia featuring Product was produced by Wycleff. He's in the background and kicks a very short reggee style verse. It's more of an R&B song but as Wycleff says, "It's got a hardcore twist.". They use the chorus: "The girls look so good but their minds aren't ready, So here we go -yo! That's why I rather spend my time with a woman cause her mind is so steady so here we go -yo!" Of course, the woman replaces the girls with boys and women with men.. Though I do NOT like R&B, this is a cool song. Short, sweet and with a cool bass line. There's nothing really hardcore about it though...

"Thug Brothers" featuring Big Pun and Noreaga is the next full length new song which comes six tracks later. This is one dope m*thaf*ckin' song!!!! Pun and Nore rip the microphone apart!!! In the chorus, as Noreaga shouts "Thug brothers!" , Pun flips some insane lines with a dope flow.   They work great together. As Pun is smooth and tongue twisting, Noreaga is straight up hard and rough around the edges.

"Prime Time" featuring Tha Alkaholics and Xzibit is nothing too special... It's cool but it can not compare to Thug Brothers.

"Show Down" featuring Buckshot and Q-Tip is another dope track that Funk Flex messes up with his many scratches. He actually lets the song go, scratches, and starts it from the begining!!! It's annoying! Especially since it's such a dope song, it's a shame to have it cut off so quick! "Bounce to this! All my hip-hop heads bounce to this!" Buckshot & Q-tip are an amazing pair and they should have gotten a full song... It should not have been scratched on or cut off!!! Funk Master blew it on this one!

"Do That" by Cocoa Brovas & Starang is another track which is too short and cut off. They talk all funny in the begining saying "Big Dawgs!" The beat is really strange but very good. The rhyme kicks and the chorus comes in but it gets cut off!!! Luckily, you could pick this track up in it's entirity if you get the "Bucktown" single featuring M.O.P.

"Shake What Ya Mamma Gave Ya" by Lyve-N-Direct is one of those awful Miami bass dance songs which just should not be here...

"Wu-Tang Cream Team Line Up" by Raekwon, The Harlem Hoodz, Inspektah Deck, Method Man and Killa Sin is a dope song!!! The beat is slamming and everyone rips the mic as Raekwon is sampled in the back "American Cream Team"... This is one of the reasons I got this cd and the song is dope! It also plays out in it's whole version! Funk Master comes in at the end and bigs himself up..

"That Sh*t" by A Tribe Called Quest and JD of Slum Village is a cool song where Q-tip sings a melody with "Do do-do do do-do-do do-do-do" He repeats many of his words at the end like "All night, night- ni-ni-night!" It's a cool song but cut off short!!! AGGHH!! Phife is not even in it... You would think that the Big Dawg would put Phife Dawg in it...

"Put Your Hammer Down" by Wu-Tang Clan is another new song where Ghost and Meth both say "Lay ya' hammer, lay ya hammer, kid!" over a driving beat and a keyboard playing down the scales. It's cool but not as cool as "Cream Team". The rest of the songs are freestyles and regular records that you heard a million times before.

There are many dope freestyles.DMX over Mobb Deep's "Give Up The Goods" is dope. Dmx has talent when it comes to off the dome...Krs-One rips it as usual.. Mos Def kicks some knowledge as well. Canibus rhymes some ill rhymes over "Ice Cream" by Raekwon. He says "Imagine the percentage of my brain that I didn't use yet!"  Slick Rick kicks some incredible hardcore rhymes over the "Mona Lisa" beat.. the whole thing is disguised in a phone call.. Gangstarr has one of the dopest segments on the entire mix tape. Premier scratches and slices "Funkmaster Flex" over a dope beat.. He even gets in someone saying.."Volume Three." Premier is just an amazing DJ!! Guru gets ill too!  "It's Gu-rizzy, On volume thrizzy, I getz busy!" Dope!!! Mobb Deep's freestyle over "Glaciers Of Ice" is cool but I know they could do much better. Erykah Badu does a cool singing freestyle over Mobb Deep's "Hell On Earth" instrumental.. It gives it a cool jazzy feel. Big Pun, Fat Joe and The Terror Squad rip it apart too on an instrumental too. One of the best freestyles come from Busta Rhymes and The Flipmode Squad. It's got a chorus!!! Busta asks: "What cha n*ggas want to do?" The squad responds "We gonna do it again, we gonna do it again" . Keith Murray also rips a then-freestyle over the very dope Sadat X instrumental "The Lump Lump". The same lyrics can now be found on the Def Squad's "El Nino". He does give you a lyrical surprise at the end which is very cool where he says, "And you can eat a sh*t sandwich and go to hell!" The weak freestyles come from Mariah Carey, Lorg Tariq & Peter Gunz, Foxy Brown, and Shaquille O'Neal...  These freestyles suck and the beats are not that good either. Luckily, they are very short. The rest of the songs are just cuts you heard millions of times before.

Flex scratches over snippits of songs like "Jump Around" by House Of Pain and "Whoop! Whoop!" by DJ Pooh... These are just unneeded.The album would be dope without them.. Funk Master Flex does get annoying because he keeps on saying his name with a tremendous energy along with the title of this tape. He's not on the radio where his voice could just pass off into the live broadcast... He's on a recording where people want to listen to it over and over again... It sucks when you buy something and the person is plugging it throughout the tape.. He does have a great personality and I'm sure he's a great person but he should limit the amount of times he says his name and the title over and over again. Many times he does scratch too much, making the song go all the way back to the begining.. This gets annoying too! Most of all, it's a great cd to listen to on shuffle.

It's a mix tape where you can mix it up even more. The average track is about a minute or two long.. When it's on shuffle, it becomes a whole new mix tape! The beats, most from very popular songs already, are all dope... It's too easy. The new songs like "Here We Go" and "Cream Team" have dope beats and Premier's beat is brilliant! The album relies on its freestyles and the beats are from hits..  so you can't go wrong but points are not gained for creativity on the part of Flex, they are gained for creativity on the artist.  Flex's idea of mixing all these freesyles together is very original so I must give the man his props for that. Production wise, everyone produced their own beat... Flex basically worked on tables over other people's beats.. I do give him credit for getting all these artists together though... Still, it's not like Pete Rock's album where he takes someone like Inspectah Deck and has him on the same song with Kurrupt... Flex has everyone do their thing by themselves. Lyrically, this is like listening to Hot 97 on a friday night. Lyrics range from violence, street life, money, smoking out,and girls. Still, there's no new ground. The album does flow with an amazing ease. Since the tracks are so short.. even the terrible tracks are listenable because odds are, a dope track is coming up next. Like I wrote before, you can play this on shuffle and you have a whole new mix tape - different everytime!! It has the best flow of any hip-hop album out there and each cut can be sown together by a quick scratch of the turntable. Hardcore??? Well, Mobb Deep is hardcore but with songs like "Shake What Ya Mamma Gava Ya" and Mariah Carey, points are lost in the hardcore category. It's just like Hot 97...but with curses.. Most of all, there are more hardcore artists than commercial so there is a gritty street theme running through it. Overall, Funk Master Flex mixed us one damn' good tape. Though there are some dope new songs on it, the purity and dopeness of this album lies in the freestyles. The freestyles are what seperates Funk Flex's album from Pete Rock's dope album and DJ Clue's dope album. 40 tracks!!! It's sad to hear that it's the final chapter but it's dope to listen to!
Beats: 8/10
Lyrics: 8/10
Production: 8/10
Originality/Creativity: 7/10
Album Flow: 8/10
Hardcore Rating: 7/10
[ Overall Rating : 7.7 / 10 ]